The print edition of the comic strip "Leroy & Dexter" brings Thomas Gilkes nanoscale heroes out large (and puns tempted).
Grand Christian Neubert the strip series, in his review on www.titel-magazin.de , And lights, the magazine writes for pop culture and " How nice that" Leroy & Dexter have "survived the cold war and the two Thomas Gilkes nano-beings on electrocomics.com and recently also in the avant-publishing has given new home. Ultimately, this is a great gift for the reader, because the real life of "Leroy & Dexter" is a very strange, almost surreal. "
The newspaper devoted Jungle World" Leroy & Dexter "is already in August Article:
" The appendix of the book is the prehistory of the strips documented, it becomes clear where the stories have their sixties Touch: from the Soviet Union at the time Brezhnev nÄ namely. Leroy and Dexter "are the spin-off of a lost Soviet-comics. (...) However, are clearly visible on the intentions of the "hammer and Sichelchen" running strips, here is driving the anti-American cliche comic flowers. Dexter: "Look what I brought from my research trip in Afghanistan, mate. A home there Virus. "Hello, is," says the virus with cigar and top hat. does not exist "Hm," grumbles Dexter, "something there for us, but an Afghan he does not even like that." Nice here, I want to have your land, "says Ami virus. re seal the Afghan war to the expedition is quite bizarre, and you will immediately understand why Thomas Gilkes was gripped by this Soviet comic rarity from the Cold War and has chosen himself mightily to the Sequel. "
Thomas Gilkes: Leroy & Dexter. Avant Verlag, Berlin 2009. 134 pages. € 19.95.
