Is this the last issue? It certainly has the feel of "We're cancelled so let's just pull out all the stops." The script is striving for poetry, and there's ambition to the layouts that I didn't think Dell allowed--and Sam Glanzman--whom I've always admired, particularly for his U.S.S. Stevens strip--amazingly keeps the animal combinations from looking stupid. Unexpectedly fine.
By Peter B. Gillis
After seeing that Kona #8's been uploaded, I have to revise and say that this is quite a strange series. I'd really, really like to know who wrote it.
By crashryan
A recent comment identified the author of this issue as Lionel Ziprin, a poet/mystic/kabbalist who hung out with the Beats and the New York avant-garde jazz crowd beginning in the 1950s. He was introduced to this group by his beatnik wife Joan. According to Wikipedia, "Their household served as a salon for the avante-garde crowd, and regular guests included Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Robert Frank, Bob Dylan, and Harry Smith." After reading Ziprin's Wikipedia bio it's easy to accept him as the author of this issue of Kona, the "87th Precinct" one-shot (1309), and the "Adventures in Paradise" one-shot (1301). The GCD also credits him with scripting two more one-shots, "The Wonders of Aladdin" and "Tales of the Wizard of Oz," which we don't have on CB+.
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