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Liberty Meadows #2
Liberty Meadows, Volume 2: Creature Comforts
Back in print! Collecting nine more issues of the award winning and totally uncensored Liberty Meadows with an all-new cover. Also featuring cover galleries and sketch galleries of unpublished Liberty Meadows art.
144 pages, Paperback
First published February 3, 2004
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About the author
Frank Cho
398 books95 followersThe second of three children, Frank Cho was born in Seoul, Korea in 1971, but moved to the United States at the age of six and was raised in Beltsville, Maryland.
Cho received no formal training as an artist. He got his start writing and drawing a cartoon strip called University2 for The Diamondback, the student newspaper at the University of Maryland, College Park. After graduation, Cho adapted elements of this work for use in a professionally syndicated strip, Liberty Meadows.
Cho received no formal training as an artist. He got his start writing and drawing a cartoon strip called University2 for The Diamondback, the student newspaper at the University of Maryland, College Park. After graduation, Cho adapted elements of this work for use in a professionally syndicated strip, Liberty Meadows.
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August 20, 2023
I'm really not sure about this daily strip. It's well drawn and has some funny moments. The animal characters are fine. The relationship between Frank and Brandy is moving at a snail's pace!
I really liked the plot line with the weiner dog race and Oscar getting neutered. Weiner dogs are the best. I just got my dog neutered, so it was fun to read Cho's humorous take on the subject.
I really liked the plot line with the weiner dog race and Oscar getting neutered. Weiner dogs are the best. I just got my dog neutered, so it was fun to read Cho's humorous take on the subject.
January 24, 2019
This volume has Frank go on a couple of disastruous dates, a good opportunity to make some sexist jokes. Tragedy strikes when a forest fire threatens the camp and the animals have to spend an extended time on a boat. Brandy and Frank must take the animals in their homes. Worse, government funding is cut, so they organize a wiener dog race.
Frank's dreams come true when Brandy asks him to be her boyfriend, but only because her mother is visiting. Her mom is almost hotter. The camp reconstruction effort is hampered by beavers which bring with them some classic jokes I remember seeing in Looney Tunes. The volume ends with a cookout Dead organizes to bring Frank closer to Brandy, but he still chickens out.
Frank's dreams come true when Brandy asks him to be her boyfriend, but only because her mother is visiting. Her mom is almost hotter. The camp reconstruction effort is hampered by beavers which bring with them some classic jokes I remember seeing in Looney Tunes. The volume ends with a cookout Dead organizes to bring Frank closer to Brandy, but he still chickens out.
January 1, 2019
Separate volumes of collected comic strips are never that distinctive but I can say that the quality of the artwork and humour has remained just as high as it was with book one. Admittedly, this can get a little risque for children, so I’ve had to edit or quickly pass over certain panels. We all enjoyed this one.
June 20, 2018
Like the first volume, this one is full of goofy jokes and beautiful linework.
September 4, 2022
Some of the jokes haven’t aged well but the artwork is timeless.
April 3, 2016
decided to do a sort of group review of four of the last graphic words i have read: The Best of The Spirit- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3..., Two Brothers- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2..., Patience- https://www.goodreads.com/review/list..., and Liberty Meadows vol. 2- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
i am trying to figure out what exactly i want in a graphic work, and to some degree these are emblematic, if only one is a favourite (The Spirit) https://www.goodreads.com/review/list..., the only one i got on sort of impulse buying (needed a break after reading some philosophy), one a gift (Patience) from my friend the comics illustrator, the other two just saw at the library...
i had read the novel by Milton Hatoum (The Brothers)- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9...
so i knew the story, i knew it was brazilian, i knew it was exotic, i knew it was translated. i actually prefer the graphic to the novel, the style of art with black/white, compositions often tilted, figures and landscapes often blended together, the images tell the story with representational focus but abstract, immediate, the plot driving through Manaus from the wealthy bourgeoisie to the criminal underworld, the characters particularly of the brothers well-delineated, foreshadowing and thematic intensity work well... mainly i liked this more than the book because it was a swift, easy read, and the artwork made me think of Tardi...
Liberty Meadows vol. 2, well, i liked it but the story, being mostly episodic, mostly comic, mostly familiar from the last time i read Liberty Meadows, do not know what i expected: do know that the artist is very good on smooth, curving lines, the animals are cute, goofy, the humans perfect for each character- and Cho must really like big-breasted women cause he draws her from many expressive angles and the nebbish character seems a stand-in for an assumed straight male reader, which is fine i guess but limits her role, his plot, his misfortunate inability to talk to her, to ask her out... i suppose i would have liked some plot, some complexity, something more than antics of the animals and relentless sexism...
Patience- friend gave it to me liked the plot, wondered how i would take it: yes the plot is cool, is intriguing, is a good mix of romance and 'sci-fi' and revenge and action, moves through well-defined eras with strong characterization, the thug as well as the narrator, the art?... i guess it is just my tendency to find plots in written work and go to graphic work for the art, and this art did not work for me like Ghost World by Clowes, if it was deliberately flat, simple, stiff characterizations and postures, then maybe i need to look at it again. as is, this made me wonder if the artist for Liberty Meadows had drawn this work, i might have liked it more... but would the story work as well?
The Best of The Spirit- i had heard of Will Eisner, had glanced through Contract... but was always put off by the artwork, so here i was pleasantly surprised by what i imagine is only graphic technology of the day, of the solid blocks of colour, of the simple figures, none of this detracted from the remarkable and concise plots of each adventure- i was amazed, i think i have to look at his other work, i enjoyed how he tells the story in images, how swift, how direct, with just the right amount of comic and satiric moments... definitely my favourite of these four works...
i am trying to figure out what exactly i want in a graphic work, and to some degree these are emblematic, if only one is a favourite (The Spirit) https://www.goodreads.com/review/list..., the only one i got on sort of impulse buying (needed a break after reading some philosophy), one a gift (Patience) from my friend the comics illustrator, the other two just saw at the library...
i had read the novel by Milton Hatoum (The Brothers)- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9...
so i knew the story, i knew it was brazilian, i knew it was exotic, i knew it was translated. i actually prefer the graphic to the novel, the style of art with black/white, compositions often tilted, figures and landscapes often blended together, the images tell the story with representational focus but abstract, immediate, the plot driving through Manaus from the wealthy bourgeoisie to the criminal underworld, the characters particularly of the brothers well-delineated, foreshadowing and thematic intensity work well... mainly i liked this more than the book because it was a swift, easy read, and the artwork made me think of Tardi...
Liberty Meadows vol. 2, well, i liked it but the story, being mostly episodic, mostly comic, mostly familiar from the last time i read Liberty Meadows, do not know what i expected: do know that the artist is very good on smooth, curving lines, the animals are cute, goofy, the humans perfect for each character- and Cho must really like big-breasted women cause he draws her from many expressive angles and the nebbish character seems a stand-in for an assumed straight male reader, which is fine i guess but limits her role, his plot, his misfortunate inability to talk to her, to ask her out... i suppose i would have liked some plot, some complexity, something more than antics of the animals and relentless sexism...
Patience- friend gave it to me liked the plot, wondered how i would take it: yes the plot is cool, is intriguing, is a good mix of romance and 'sci-fi' and revenge and action, moves through well-defined eras with strong characterization, the thug as well as the narrator, the art?... i guess it is just my tendency to find plots in written work and go to graphic work for the art, and this art did not work for me like Ghost World by Clowes, if it was deliberately flat, simple, stiff characterizations and postures, then maybe i need to look at it again. as is, this made me wonder if the artist for Liberty Meadows had drawn this work, i might have liked it more... but would the story work as well?
The Best of The Spirit- i had heard of Will Eisner, had glanced through Contract... but was always put off by the artwork, so here i was pleasantly surprised by what i imagine is only graphic technology of the day, of the solid blocks of colour, of the simple figures, none of this detracted from the remarkable and concise plots of each adventure- i was amazed, i think i have to look at his other work, i enjoyed how he tells the story in images, how swift, how direct, with just the right amount of comic and satiric moments... definitely my favourite of these four works...
March 23, 2011
Liberty Meadows is an animal sanctuary for some very special animals. Watched over by the beautiful Brandy and the geeky Frank, this strip is a a chaotic joyride of laughs. Cho's artwork is beautiful and his humor is both laugh-out funny and peculiar enough to strike my funny bone (I especially enjoy his sliding in other cartoon characters as well as breaking the third wall with his "Monkey Boy" character :) ) As an added touch, I really liked seeing the sketches at the end of this book!
April 3, 2011
I read this as my nightstand book. And every night that I did, Josh would hear me laughing. Some of these strips had me in stitches. Who would have thought three or four-panel strips could be so funny. And yes it’s true, Frank Cho really knows how to draw beautiful women. It’s what he’s known for in the industry. Oh, and there are several references to Xena, which I am of course not opposed to
June 2, 2023
This is another wacky ride and the graphic novel delivers on its promise.
The artwork and humor is as good as the previous book in the series. The jokes 9many of them) are borderline obscene and anyone reading this is probably prepared for the ride.
The artwork keeps the book afloat.
The artwork and humor is as good as the previous book in the series. The jokes 9many of them) are borderline obscene and anyone reading this is probably prepared for the ride.
The artwork keeps the book afloat.
November 19, 2009
As much fun as the 1st volume.
July 4, 2012
14.99
October 2, 2010
hilarious comic. hope to read the rest of the Liberty Meadows collection
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