{"product_id":"9781681373447","title":"Return to Romance","description":"By: Ogden Whitney     \u003chr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy turns amusing and disturbing, this collection of 1960s romance comic strips provides a provocative window into male-female power dynamics as conceived by one of mid-century America's foremost comic book artists.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOgden Whitney was one of the unsung masters of American comics. He is  perhaps best remembered for co-creating the satirical superhero Herbie  Popnecker, also known as the Fat Fury, but his romance comics of the  late 1950s and 1960s may be even more unique. In Whitney’s hands, the  standard formula of meet-cute, minor complications, and final blissful  kiss becomes something very different: an unsettling vision of  midcentury American romance as a devastating power struggle, a form of  intimate psychological warfare dressed up in pearls and flannel suits.  From suburban lawns and offices to rocket labs and factories, his men  and women scheme and clash, dominate and escape. It is darkly hilarious,  truly terrifying—and yes, occasionally even a bit romantic.","brand":"New York Review Comics","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":46404848845027,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9781681373447","price":128.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9781681373447.jpg?v=1748571888","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/zh-mo\/products\/9781681373447","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}