Tiki Joe - Review and Article
Tiki Joe Mysteries by Mark Murphy combines two of our favorite things at SLG -- comics and tiki pop culture. In addition to publishing comics, we also have our Club Tiki line, devoted to publishing tiki drink recipe books, tiki art books, and even a history of tiki culture in mid-20th-century America. So we were pretty pleased to see Mark Murphy's stories about Joe Halliday, a guy who is a part of the world preserved in our Club Tiki books.
Bill Love at Comic Related reviews this new graphic novel in his Novel Ideas column: "Mark Murphy has a clean, classic drawing style perfectly suited to the time period. Tiki Joe Mysteries is awash in nostalgia for an era we know best from old movies and Sinatra albums, but he keeps his characters grounded. It is a true period piece, not grossly exaggerated camp."
Chris Arrant profiles the book and the creator at Publishers Weekly. “'To my mind, there is a sense of romance, or perhaps innocence, that postwar America was trying to capture when it emulated Polynesian culture,' Murphy said."