Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 2, 2024 16:16:55 GMT -5
The Cowboy Wally Show
Kyle Baker, 1988
The story of a corpulent, obnoxious and amoral television and movie star narratively structured in part as a career retrospective interview for a documentary. He got his start as a kids’ show host, but that gig didn’t last very long because his humor was too raunchy. He then had a string of variety TV shows, started his own production company and even produced and starred in a few movies. Although I get what Baker was trying to do with this, I really found a lot of the humor pretty forced (and needlessly repetitive), with the exception of the third section, which recounts how he illegally shot a movie version of Hamlet in a Riker’s Island jail cell in a single week and which is genuinely quite clever and funny.
I really liked the art, though – it’s too bad most of the story is pretty ‘meh.’
Kyle Baker, 1988
The story of a corpulent, obnoxious and amoral television and movie star narratively structured in part as a career retrospective interview for a documentary. He got his start as a kids’ show host, but that gig didn’t last very long because his humor was too raunchy. He then had a string of variety TV shows, started his own production company and even produced and starred in a few movies. Although I get what Baker was trying to do with this, I really found a lot of the humor pretty forced (and needlessly repetitive), with the exception of the third section, which recounts how he illegally shot a movie version of Hamlet in a Riker’s Island jail cell in a single week and which is genuinely quite clever and funny.
I really liked the art, though – it’s too bad most of the story is pretty ‘meh.’
