![]() The bunny hero’s name is Jack the fellow in the box is called Zack. ![]() ![]() Spiegelman’s Jack and the Box (Toon Books, October 7) explores the idea of a child overcoming fear through his repeated experiences with a Jack-in-the-Box, a gift from his parents. Now both Lynch and Spiegelman have written titles for Toon Books, a series of beautifully produced paper-over-board comic books aimed at beginning readers and edited by Françoise Mouly (see Shelf Awareness, March 5, 2008). He and his friend Jay Lynch started a magazine called Blasé as teenagers and both worked at Topps writing copy for Wacky Packs, as Spiegelman writes in his introduction to Wacky Packages (Abrams, June 2008). Yet, he argues, “It’s all on a weird continuum.” “I know I’m going to be portrayed as bipolar for having Jack and the Box and Breakdowns come out at the same moment,” Spiegelman says. ![]() The following article was lifted from Shelf Awareness a daily newsletter about events in publishing and books: ![]()
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