Marmaduke Again?

by Brad Anderson

Cartoons offer a humorous look at Marmaduke's encounters with new dog food, snow, mail carriers, the vet, wading pools, ants, television

Genres: Humor, Comics, Graphic Novels, Comic Strips

96 pages, Paperback

Published February 1, 1988

About the author

Brad Anderson is an American cartoonist. He graduated from Brocton Central School in Brocton, New York in 1943. He is best known for creating the comic strip Marmaduke in 1955, which he continues to draw to this day. One of his favorite inclusions in his comics was the old Cave's Meat Market in Brocton, NY. There were several cartoons dedicated to Cave's and to Marmaduke running away from the store with items he had retrieved. He was also involved in the comic strip Grandpa's Boy, which ran from 1955 through 1980. He received the National Cartoonists Society Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award for Marmaduke in 1978.

The repetitive nature of the themes in Marmaduke was recently parodied in the satirical paper The Onion.

Reviews

[Glen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Early collection of Marmaduke strips. Some of the funnier ones in the entire series. Every Marmaduke fan should read this one.

[Chance Hansen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Marmaduke, not that's a name you don't hear very often.

Cover
The cover's fine. Being a colored version of an interior page.

Interior
This gave me a few chuckles. Mainly because some of them are so realistic you don't need a Great Dane to experience them. It's nice to see the amount of variety that they go beyond just big dog jokes. With that being said his size does exaggerate what would have been a standard joke otherwise. He's full of personality but I do wish they were more than just one image clips.
I love how the detail that a shopping cart sized bag of dog food costs $3.19 and Marmaduke is ticked about that price.
One of the oddest parts is how disjointed. Some of them tie into other pages but they are pulled apart for some reason.

[Lynn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Marmaduke just makes me chuckle out-loud and bring warmth to my heart and soul!

[Rain · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ah, yes, the lovable Marmaduke's funniest moments are highlighted in this little book, including a demonstration of his love for bubblegum and being a hypochondriac. Cute.

[Dan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brad Anderson shows once "...Again" that maybe you can teach an old dog new tricks!

[Kamil Henri · Rating 3 out of 5]

6/10