By Dik Browne
Publisher: Titan Books
ISBN: 978-1-84856-234-9
I'd forgotten how much I liked Hägar. I grew up in a house where we had the Daily Express for my fix of Garfield and Calvin & Hobbes and The Sun where I could get Hägar, but since leaving home all those years ago my relationship with newspapers has become something sporadic. So what a treat this has been to plunge right back in at the beginning.
There are some laugh-out-loud moments, such as Helga advising Honi to drop her standards about men – after all, she wouldn't be here if her mother hadn't – or the one where Hägar complains that Helga is behind with the housework and hasn't even made the beds while we, the reader, look upon the planks and woodwork tools.
This is a nicely presented hardback volume, and rather thick too, and it comes with a heartfelt foreword from Sergio Aragones (plus Groo and Hägar together in one cartoon), and an introduction by Brian Walker, originally taken from a 1985 interview in which we get to discover the cottage industry that was the Hägar production line, where all the family mucked in. I'd also originally thought that this was the first volume, but in fact this is volume 2, so do look out for the 73/74 volume too.
And if you liked that: There are more volumes to follow
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