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libraryrobin's review against another edition
1.0
Eh, he's no Chas Addams. There's an occasional hit but mostly misses by far.
libraryrobin's review
1.0
Eh, he's no Chas Addams. There's an occasional hit but mostly misses by far.
marystephanos's review
3.0
The charming, misbehaving girls of St Trinian's offer a wonderful rejoinder to the portrait of British boarding schools found in, among others, the Harry Potter books. Published in the mid 20th century, Ronald Searle's multi-layered, single-pane comics portray a world in which a girl's greatest virtue is not getting caught. The girls of St Trinian's are violent and crude, and they have no scruples about torturing those they deem worthy. This volume collects all the comics (and there aren't as many as one might like), but it would have benefited from some commentary. Recommended but with reservations.
dee2799d's review
3.0
I've only seen the movie with Colin Firth in it so I don't really know what to expect, but St Trinian's is a delight. The humour is very wry, very black, and sometimes appalling, oh my gosh. But to be perfectly honest, I'd probably be very lost without the introduction. It helped me put Ronald Searle's work in a specific timeframe and gave the sometimes macabre humour a definite edge. Knowing that Searle had been a prisoner of war and had done sketches while in prison gives us the idea that this is gallows humour of the very best.
(And it helps I guess to see these little girls going through what to us adults are just the facts of life. The juxtaposition is unexpected and ironic. I love it.)
(And it helps I guess to see these little girls going through what to us adults are just the facts of life. The juxtaposition is unexpected and ironic. I love it.)
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