And I’m still not even sure if I understand.Ĭhew isn’t straight comedy. Over the last couple weeks since I read it, I’ve been trying to pin down exactly where the book goes wrong. And it’s not even as consistent in its joys as situational comedies like Yotsuba& or the works of Mitsuru Adachi. It doesn’t rank with books like Street Angel or Atomic Robo either.
On the other hand, Chew does not find itself in the company of other envoys of the humourous like Screw-On Head, Far Arden, or The Goon. It’s possible that this is the best thing ever committed to the comics panel. A lot of the other stuff either only succeeds partially or, more often and sadly enough, not at all.Ĭhew, on the upside, is actually funny and does exhibit the occasional moment of pure joy. Certainly there are successes, books and strips that routinely have even readers with well-developed senses of humour smiling regularly-and maybe even actually laughing occasionally.
Any glance at your newspaper’s comics page or editorial cartoons ought to bring enough evidence to bear on that score-if you still get a newspaper. Comedy in nearly any medium is notoriously difficult to pull off, but conveying humour effectively in the peculiar medium of comics seems doubly so.
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