Dugan Under Ground
Author | : Tom De Haven |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2002-11-09 |
ISBN-10 | : 031242101X |
ISBN-13 | : 9780312421014 |
Rating | : 4/5 (014 Downloads) |
Download or read book Dugan Under Ground written by Tom De Haven and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-11-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final installment of De Haven's dazzling tour of twentieth-century America, revealed through the world of the comic strips and their creators. In 1967, the Summer of Love, Roy Looby, a gifted young cartoonist, deserts his mentor and joins the drop-outs of San Francisco's Haight Ashbury. There Looby creates "The Imp Eugene," a libidinous comic book character who is a far cry from his mentor's signature figure, Derby Dugan--the cheerful icon of a more optimistic generation. Celebrated and vilified for his creation, Looby soon disappears, rumored to have lost his mind during the drug-fueled creation of a cartoon masterpiece, and it's to his long-suffering brother, Nick, to find him. A long, strange trip across a wildly changing America, Dugan Under Ground is a rich, inventive tale celebrating the mythic qualities of American popular culture.