Velma Melmac Has Left The Park

If you're looking for a testament to the power of comic strips big and small, you could do worse than this long article about Phil Frank's nature-phobic character Velma Melmac -- that's an all-time name, too -- who parked her air-conditioned trailer at Yosemite and beat nature into subservience for most years in the late cartoonist's long-running Farley. Even if you know nothing about Velma Melmac or Phil Frank or Farley it's hard not to see that at least for the reader who wrote this article the national-turned-local comic strip loomed large in his imagination. That's what comics do for a lot of people, they come to represent ideas or certain ways of thinking, giving faces to the voices inside of our heads.
 
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