LON CHANEY SPEAKS
BY PAT DORIAN
(PENGUIN)
review by BK Munn
From "Lon Chaney Speaks" by Pat Dorian, a more-or-less straight bio of the great silent film actor (Phantom of the Opera, Hunchback of Notre Dame) told in comics form. I picked up the book because of its striking cover, thinking for a minute it was the work of the cartoonist Seth. Dorian's style only has a surface similarity to Seth, and reads like Syd Hoff or some other 1930s cartoonist dashed this off. It was one of the few graphic novels I managed to read in 2020, perhaps because of its brevity and simple style, and looking back on my comics reading here at the end of the year, I remembered it has this Christmas-themed sequence that neatly encapsulates the tragic aspect of Chaney's fame and is representative of the book as a whole.
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