Maid Marian and Her Merry Men: How the Band got Together ¦ Maid Marian and Her Merry Men: Robert the Incredible Chicken
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The illustration on our cover is taken from One World by Michael Foreman, published by Andersen Press, (0 86264 289 2, £6.95). We are grateful to Andersen Press for their help in using this illustration and to Michael Foreman for the article.
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Illustrated by Paul Cemmick
Maid Marian and Her Merry Men: How the Band got Together
Illustrated by Paul Cemmick
These highly enjoyable books reconstruct the Chronicles of Sherwood to the rapped out rhythms of a Rasta narrator. The luridly silly cartoons seethe with hectic nonsense, demented inhabitants of court and forest spilling from the frames as if to escape the hurtling slime and excruciating jokes.
Maid Marian is the rebel leader in this version of the legend and Robin Hood a foppish wimp who only ends up in the forest because of his attachment to King John's underpants.
Though the historical authenticity of this account is open to question, it presents a combination of verbal and visual anarchy so irresistible that several of my least bookish children remained happily involved in it for days on end.
