Suspended Animation Review

Meanwhile (Milton Caniff/a biography/951 pgs. & $34.95 from Fantagraphics Books /written by Robert C. Harvey/available at book and comics shops, and at www. fantagraphics.com.

It is made clear by the author of Meanwhile and many other creative folk that Milton Caniff was “one of the greatest creators of popular fiction of the twentieth century…” But not one person who gasped at the massive biography of Caniff’s life that I carried with me to myriad places had heard of him, and none of them remembered his comic strip Terry and the Pirates; a few said “oh” at the mention of his comic strip Steve Canyon.

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