BoingBoing reader Jeremiah Britt says,
Knowing how much you guys love the random, beautiful and bizarre ephemera of yesteryear, I scanned in the illustrations from the
Big Little Book “The Man From U.N.C.L.E. – The Calcutta Affair”.
The poses are awkward, some of the panel art ridiculous and the captions surreal.
It’s especially amusing without the context of the text.
Enjoy.
Link. If the plot included centipedes, cellphone tapping and an illicit affair between a Bollywood actress and a politico, the book would be a Bruce Sterling blog-post.
Reader comment: Blog-famed ephemera-herder and podcaster James Lileks says,
I have a small (53 pages) site on the glorious awfulness of Big Little
Book illos; it’s here: LinkThe Man From UNCLE section begins here: Link
It’s all much worse than that Flickr set suggested. Much worse.