There are only twenty pages of text in Genius, Animated, oddly strewn throughout the book, and unfortunately, their content is very thin. Further, because of the books' tendency to highlight the least interesting and most conservative aspects of what he did while ignoring or misunderstanding or failing to communicate in any meaningful way what makes Toth's work so exciting and innovative, what is established is that Toth was a contentious man who became a particularly boring and cranky old fart. As biography, the account it presents feels skewed against the artist. One can quibble with the editors' selections and the books' design and I will-but all of the art is shown in a generously proportioned format and the printing is very sharp and clear.īut for a series that claims to be the definitive statement on Toth, it falls short, because the text does not do justice to its subject.
Visually, the just-released third and final book, Genius, Animated, compares favorably to IDW's other collections that I own and admire regularly, such as their exemplary Milton Caniff collections. Let me just say upfront that the production values in the now-complete three-volume biography of the cartoonist Alexander Toth are beyond reproach. Available now!Īlex Toth’s Complete Zorro Reprint, Alex Toth’s Zorro, the Complete Dell Adventures 240 page all color hard cover, ISBN No.: 9781613450314, $49.99, Available everywhere and on, contains Four Color comics, 882, 920, 933, 960, 976, 1003 and Zorro #12.Genius, Animated: The Cartoon Art of Alex Toth
Toth’s work on Zorro is infectiously fun, beautifully paced, handsomely composed, and represents quintessential examples of action adventure comic books storytelling. Indeed, the stories contained in Hermes Press’ new complete Zorro reprint provide one of the longest “runs” of his work on any one character. Toth, who never had an extended run on any one feature, relied on the quality of his work rather than on the popularity of the comic characters he was working on for his place of distinction in the world of pop culture. Cited by comic book artists, historians, and fans, as some of Toth’s best work, these stories have been painstakingly reconstructed to look better than the original Dell comic books in this deluxe reprint which boasts many extras including a detailed essay on Toth’s career. Toth, who defined how action/adventure stories are told, set the standard for comic books with his Zorro tales. Media Release - Alex Toth’s definitive version of Zorro, is now available in a hardcover archival reprint from Hermes Press.Ĭomic legend Alex Toth’s Complete Dell Adventures of Zorro, is finally available in a full color archival reprint.
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