Bibliograph

The iron duchess, a Fred the Clown adventure

Type

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The iron duchess, a Fred the Clown adventure

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Intended audience

Rated T

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The iron duchess

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Sub title

a Fred the Clown adventure

Summary

Fred the Clown is fit as a fiddle and looking for love in this ode to silent cinema by an acclaimed cartoonist. This nearly wordless romp from master cartoonist Roger Langridge is the author's paean to the silent, slapstick comedies of the 1910s and '20s, spun for a contemporary audience, starring his most popular character. It finds our hero Fred pitching the woo to a lovely equestrian. But with matrimony-minded fathers, boorish beaux, and malicious mad scientists interfering at every opportunity, what's a clown-and his faithful pig companion-to do? Langridge's velvety grays evoke the silent films of his patron saint, Buster Keaton (and, in this volume particularly, the latter's masterpiece, The General). His craft is at a zenith, and captures every screwball twist and turn of the heiress's and our hero's romantic roundabout

Target audience

adult

Classification