By Roba
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 978-1-84918-049-8
At first glance this looks like a book for kids, but if Billy & Buddy were appearing in your daily paper they'd sit quite comfortably besides the existing cartoon strips. Like so many strips featuring children and animals it draws its humour from how they see and interact with the world around them.
It was originally began life back in 1959 and is still in production today under it's given name of Boule & Bill, and it's not the first time it's seen print in this country. Back in the days of British comic Valiant it appeared as the back page strip, this time called Pete & Larry. Lew Stringer's complied an interesting like-for-like on his blog that's worth a read: http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2010/04/boule-bill-billy-buddy-or-pete-larry.html
Each page is a self-contained gag so Roba gets lots of opportunity to show off his writing and drawing skills in various settings and at different paces.
There's no doubt that this is gentle, inoffensive stuff, but it's also witty and beautifully drawn, so if you're a fan of comic strips then this is worth a few pounds of your money.
And if you liked that: Book 1 also available from Cinebook
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