We had a chance to interview Mark Russell about writing comics, what makes good satire, more thoughts on human civilization, and of course, what he’s been reading lately.Ĭheck out The Flintstones (also available anytime via the hoopla app). Book Reviews - The Flintstones The Deluxe Edition by Mark Russell One-Star Squadron by Mark Russell. The second and last volume of The Flintstones was published in October, so expect to see it on our annual Best of booklets and posts coming soon at the library. Seeing this world through the Flintstone family’s lens provides some hilarious and poignant satire, earning the comic series starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Booklist. Russell and illustrator Steve Pugh’s version of Bedrock is a newly established Stone Age civilization just beginning to construct things like economics, religion, marriage, science, politics, and domestic life. The second volume of one of the best-reviewed series of 2017 continues here when author Mark Russell returns to the celebrated reimagined Hanna-Barbera story of the classic stone age family from Bedrock in THE FLINTSTONES VOL. And yes, we are talking about the Yabba-Dabba-Doo Hanna-Barbera TV characters.

Mark Russell is the author of DC Comics’ re-imagined version of The Flintstones, one of our favorite comics here at the library.

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