The Fun pages are fine every once and a while, but it gets to a point where, similar to the Wobbly Headed Bob comics in the Squee collected edition, there's pages and pages of Fun comics one after another. The joke of "Evan not having a joke" gets old pretty quickly, and I'm saying this as someone who thinks he's a really funny writer. Each of these pages has seven short comic strips that range from being hilarious to really unfunny. I am specifically referring to the "Fun" pages. When this book is funny, it's really funny, but when it isn't, it can feel like a chore to get through. Dork is a book collecting all of the non-Eltingville and non-earlier Milk and Cheese stories that were in Evan Dorkin's series of Dork and House of Fun comics. I've been meaning to read The Eltingville comics since, but just recently found this for a really good deal. A couple years ago, I saw one of RebelTaxi's videos on failed animated pilots, which led to watching the Welcome to Eltingville pilot.
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Countless 20th-century singers have sung the song, from Mississippi John Hurt, Pete Seeger and Gillian Welch to Johnny Cash, Harry Belafonte and Woody Guthrie. Disrupting the foundational folk legend of “John Henry” - the late 19th-century tale of a “steel-driving” railroad man who, in his noble quest to outwork modern steam-drill technology, ends up working himself to death - is a near-blasphemous gesture in American folk music, akin to rewriting scripture. Why don’t you two write a song about Polly Ann, because nobody knows Polly Ann’s story. “Maybe,” she pondered out loud to Kiah and Russell one day, “you could reimagine the John Henry story. The singer-banjoist and MacArthur Genuis had convened a group of fellow artists - Allison Russell, Leyla McCalla and Amythyst Kiah -in January 2018 to record the collaborative concept album Songs of Our Native Daughters to interpret and revive long-extinct forms of music. As she tends to do, Rhiannon Giddens had an idea. 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