#01 Rex Glamour
#01 Rex Glamour
Kitchen Sink February 1972
The inaugural issue of Snarf opens with Kitchen’s own “Rex Glamour, Process Server,” an 11-page story that was compiled (and reconfigured) from 15 weekly strips Kitchen had produced for the Bugle-American newspaper with Bugle staffer Ed Goodman. “Rex Glamour” is a campy, joke-laden story about a lowly process server who talks and acts like a hardboiled private eye. This spoof on film noir makes all the right moves and provides one laugh after another, as so many Kitchen comics do. Even today, when the detective tropes are so beaten into the ground they elicit groans, Kitchen’s take somehow seems fresh (and credit to Goodman as well).
If only the rest of the book could fully live up to Kitchen’s opening story. Dutch cartoonist Evert Geradts, who founded the successful Dutch comic magazine Tante Leny Presenteert, gives it a good shot with “Ronald Ruck versus: The Human Woman.”.
Tim Boxell and Dave Herring contribute some solid comics, though they are on opposite ends of the spectrum, with Boxell going for revolting gross-out humor and Herring producing a sexy-dumb-blonde escapade. Snarf #1 gets the series off to a solid start, but the best of the series is yet to come.
#01 Rex Glamour
