Stan Drake

Back in the days when newspaper comic strips were large enough for it to matter, Stan Drake was the premier comic strip drama artist, drawing (but not writing) "The Heart of Juliet Jones", a well-written and exquisitely drawn soap-operish drama strip. This book comprises the Sunday strips from May 2, 1954 to August 3, 1958, which were a separate continuity from the daily strip. The stories are fine, with one particularly compelling one with Eddie Hearn, a recurring character and longtime show more friend of Juliet who has loved her since they were children. By the second half of the book compilation, the stories started becoming shorter and a little abrupt in their endings. But always, the strip is worth it if only for that lovely Stan Drake artwork. I couldn't believe learning from an interview with Shel Dorf that Stan Drake for a time "cartoonified" his artwork and became the artist for "Blondie". show less

An interesting part one to a continuing graphic novel story about big oil and Alaskan natives being screwed over. Not up to Starr's usual story standards, but the gorgeous artwork by Stan Drake is the main draw here anyway.

This crime-and-suspense graphic novel series, of which this is the first, is well-written (although a little dated in tone) by Leonard Starr, but the main draw is Stan Drake's marvelous artwork, finally unbound from the constraints of a family 1950's newspaper drama strip. Kelly Green is the widow of a cop who was set up for a killing, who becomes a "go-between" between the underworld and the law to make ends meet. The story is tough and grittily realistic, the artwork sexy and great.

Doting father Howard invents a quick-drying enamel, and egged on by an avaricious Eve (who has lost her maliciousness but not quite her sense of envy), he sinks his savings and home into a business enterprise with unscrupulous salesman Hal Mosby. Mosby swindles Howard, and the family has to give up the trappings of wealth, but all ends well. In an added Sunday continuity, Eve learns the hazards of getting in a car with a daredevil boy she doesn't know that well. Drake's artwork is top-notch, show more and his writing skills are improving. show less