Not that there’s much to laugh at in TGBTWE. For me, this title encapsulates Collins’ work in a very neat way: a superficially childish locution which hides a deeper profundity…and is very amusing at the same time. May I also point out as a preliminary observation that as a title, The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil takes some beating, it really does. Many’s the happy hour I’ve passed in the library re-reading old comic strips instead of making notes on yet another article about Spark’s manipulation of narrative time in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and here I am now, writing a blog post about Collins’ first graphic novel instead of sifting through aborted PhD chapter drafts to weed out the useable bits. Every week I cut out his comic strip from the Saturday Guardian magazine and glue it into my notebook. Before I begin, allow me to say how much I love Stephen Collins’ work.
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