#king aroo

[cantstopthinkingcomics]

King Aroo by Jack Kent

[arecomicsevengood]

Weird tidbit, recently discovered, as my brain makes connections between books put out by NYRB Classics and comics: Gilbert Seldes, the author of The Stammering Century, a history of 19th-century religious movements, wrote an introduction to a 1953 collection of Jack Kent's King Aroo.

EDIT: Got three messages telling me he also wrote an essay about Krazy Kat in 1924. Here's the URL: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/seldes/ch15.html 

I didn't know about this but I appreciate people telling me, I love to learn, and I love to read/think about Krazy Kat. 

His Wikipedia page also told me he hosted a show on CBS where he would introduce and explore a genre of jazz every week, which is not comics-related but still in my wheelhouse of things to care about.

The one thing on his Wikipedia page that is kind of a bummer is that he thought it was wrong for Edward R. Murrow to try to discredit Joe McCarthy. Other than that he seemed pretty on-point.