Betty Boop

'Betty Boop' is a graphic novel by Roger Landridge with art by Gisèle Lagacé. It includes 4 individual issues, but they tell one larger story. I loved the art and feel of this story.Betty Boop works at the Oop-A-Doop Club. She wants to work on stage, but she's stuck waiting on tables while Scat Skellington and his band of skeletons work the crowd. Her boss Mister Finkle is miserly, but she's got friends in the club like Koko the Clown and Bimbo. She lives with Grampy, who is also an inventor. A group of ghosts wants to chase Grampy and Betty out of their house, but Betty is not about to let them. She even gets a chance to have a musical number here and there.The art is fabulous and looks like old animation. The color is even a more muted shade than normal which adds to the mood. I really liked the stories. Since we can't hear the singing, bad singing is done with bad rhyming, which I thought was pretty clever. This is an appropriate graphic novel for all ages.I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Dynamite Entertainment, Diamond Book Distributors, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.

This is a lot of fun! When I'd finished reading I just had to go watch some old cartoons! The art is dynamic bringing together a mix of old and new styles making Betty really shine. There is a real '30s feel with language and slang from the day. Betty Boop fans will rejoice! Each issue is an individual story and yet together they makeup one story with the bad guy getting his at the end. Lots of fun and I want more!

Betty Boop by Roger Langridge et. al. is a free NetGalley e-comicbook that I read in mid-April.Issues 1-3 deal with the wrangling of the scheming, mean big bad, Lenny Lizardlips, who's always trying to con poor Gramps out of his home and the Oop-a-Doop Club, while Issue 4 has him using transformative potions to get revenge on Betty, alone. Although it's somewhat a spoiler, Betty Boop always comes out on top and the Club is saved from ruin and extinction with a sometimes rhyming song & dance (with black and white-hued cells tinted with muted color, but bright and bold with the red of Betty's dress).