Welcome to Toontown where cartoon characters – Toons – live side-by-side with humans. The whole Who Framed Roger Rabbit cast is here: Roger Rabbit, Eddie Valiant, Baby Herman, and of course Jessica Rabbit, the sultriest woman ever “drawn that way.” They’re up to their old tricks in a whimsical new mystery by Toontown’s original creator, the man who first brought these delightful creatures to life.
Who P-p-p-plugged Roger Rabbit? opens with a call from Roger to hard-boiled private eye Eddie Valiant. Roger suspects that Jessica is baking her carrot cakes for movie heartthrob Clark Gable. The scandal threatens to rob Roger of the Rhett Butler role in the soon-to-be-filmed Toon musical comedy Gone with the Wind. Investigating Jessica’s alleged affair, valiant Eddie finds adultery turning to murder. In no time flat, he’s up to his fedora in a nasty web of deceit, intrigue, and Hollywood corruption including reports from all over of a swindling, cheating, blackmailing….Roger!!?!?! Something is really p-p-p-popping in Toontown!
Some of the wildest creatures seen in fiction (and real life) abound: Police Sergeant Bulldog Bascomb, a full-blooded hound with razor-sharp teeth sunk into Eddie’s case: Heddy, Eddie’s sister and possible prime suspect; Kirk Enigman, a very “shadow”-y guy; and Joellyn, Jessica’s twin sister, shockingly different in one small way! As if this isn’t enough, human luminaries run fast and furious. In addition to Gable, David O. Selznick, Carole Lombard (Baby Herman’s latest plaything), and Vivien Leigh (Valiant’s dalliance?) all play a role.
Who P-p-p-plugged Roger Rabbit? is a comically brilliant sequel, as unique and original as the first time we saw Roger and Jessica together in Wolf’s Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, the book that kicked off the whole Toon craze.
This version includes an author’s sketch of Roger Rabbit PLUS autographs of Gary K. Wolf AND Roger Rabbit himself!
**
Review
Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit? is as bright and fresh and fascinatingas the original. Fans of the first book and film are in for a Toonfultreat. Michael Eisner / Chairman of the Board and CEO / The Walt Disney Company
Reprint of the entire first page of the novel under the heading Auspicious Beginnings. People Magazine
Unabashed P-P-P-Plug! If you like Roger Rabbit, you'll adore WhoP-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit? by Gary K. Wolf, the man who created Rogerand the rest of the Toon crew. The Toontown Tattler (Disney Comics)
A good, fun read. Eddie Valiant out-Marlowes Marlow and out-Spades Spade. The humorous strength of Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit? lies in Wolf's one-liners and quirky send-ups of 1940s hard-boiled detective patter. The bodies drop like names at a Hollywood party. Wolf's prose is consistently witty, the plot is fast-paced and quirky, and he can craft a decent mystery with a sense of fun. Boston Herald
The Toonish imagery, the slapstick humor, the double entendre dialogue all contribute to turn this book into a Technicolor vision as you read. From the first "P-O-W" to the last "K-A-B-L-O-O-E-Y," the fun is never ending. Nashville Banner
The welcome mat is out again at Toontown. Expect the usual surreal hi-jinks. In Wolf's crazy universe, a never-never-land gag is always around the corner. Columbus Dispatch
Wolf freely mixes Toons and human characters in situations both real and surreal. It's a fast and funny story made up of equal parts of cartoon pratfalls, tough-guy detective action and sly humor. It's an endlessly entertaining tale with jokes and puns that leap at you like out-of-control cartoon speech balloons. Austin American-Statesman
About the Author
It was watching Saturday morningcartoons "for research purposes" that inspired Wolf's idea for RogerRabbit.
"It was during the commercials," says Wolf. "I saw Tony theTiger and the Trix Rabbit, and Cap'n Crunch, cartoon characters, talking toreal people. And nobody seemed to think that was odd. I thought, 'What a greatidea for a novel. A place where Toons lived side by side with humans.' I wovethat into a mystery, and bingo, I had my book."
His innovative concept was the basis for the novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? Wolffound his idea hard to sell -- this time to publishers. Even with three wellreviewed science fiction novels to his credit, it took Wolf two years and 110rejections to find a publisher for his unusual book. "Publishers told meit was too esoteric. Too weird. Nobody would understand it," Wolfexplains. Finally, a small publisher took a chance and brought it out. Soonafter, Walt Disney Pictures came calling. Disney and Steven Spielberg teamed upto make Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The film became the most critically acclaimedand highest-grossing film of 1988, bringing in more than $750 million at thebox office as well as four Academy Awards.
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Welcome to Toontown where cartoon characters – Toons – live side-by-side with humans. The whole Who Framed Roger Rabbit cast is here: Roger Rabbit, Eddie Valiant, Baby Herman, and of course Jessica Rabbit, the sultriest woman ever “drawn that way.” They’re up to their old tricks in a whimsical new mystery by Toontown’s original creator, the man who first brought these delightful creatures to life.
Who P-p-p-plugged Roger Rabbit? opens with a call from Roger to hard-boiled private eye Eddie Valiant. Roger suspects that Jessica is baking her carrot cakes for movie heartthrob Clark Gable. The scandal threatens to rob Roger of the Rhett Butler role in the soon-to-be-filmed Toon musical comedy Gone with the Wind. Investigating Jessica’s alleged affair, valiant Eddie finds adultery turning to murder. In no time flat, he’s up to his fedora in a nasty web of deceit, intrigue, and Hollywood corruption including reports from all over of a swindling, cheating, blackmailing….Roger!!?!?! Something is really p-p-p-popping in Toontown!
Some of the wildest creatures seen in fiction (and real life) abound: Police Sergeant Bulldog Bascomb, a full-blooded hound with razor-sharp teeth sunk into Eddie’s case: Heddy, Eddie’s sister and possible prime suspect; Kirk Enigman, a very “shadow”-y guy; and Joellyn, Jessica’s twin sister, shockingly different in one small way! As if this isn’t enough, human luminaries run fast and furious. In addition to Gable, David O. Selznick, Carole Lombard (Baby Herman’s latest plaything), and Vivien Leigh (Valiant’s dalliance?) all play a role.
Who P-p-p-plugged Roger Rabbit? is a comically brilliant sequel, as unique and original as the first time we saw Roger and Jessica together in Wolf’s Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, the book that kicked off the whole Toon craze.
This version includes an author’s sketch of Roger Rabbit PLUS autographs of Gary K. Wolf AND Roger Rabbit himself!
**
Review
Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit? is as bright and fresh and fascinatingas the original. Fans of the first book and film are in for a Toonfultreat.
Michael Eisner / Chairman of the Board and CEO / The Walt Disney Company
Reprint of the entire first page of the novel under the heading Auspicious Beginnings.
People Magazine
Unabashed P-P-P-Plug! If you like Roger Rabbit, you'll adore WhoP-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit? by Gary K. Wolf, the man who created Rogerand the rest of the Toon crew.
The Toontown Tattler (Disney Comics)
A good, fun read. Eddie Valiant out-Marlowes Marlow and out-Spades Spade. The humorous strength of Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit? lies in Wolf's one-liners and quirky send-ups of 1940s hard-boiled detective patter. The bodies drop like names at a Hollywood party. Wolf's prose is consistently witty, the plot is fast-paced and quirky, and he can craft a decent mystery with a sense of fun.
Boston Herald
The Toonish imagery, the slapstick humor, the double entendre dialogue all contribute to turn this book into a Technicolor vision as you read. From the first "P-O-W" to the last "K-A-B-L-O-O-E-Y," the fun is never ending.
Nashville Banner
The welcome mat is out again at Toontown. Expect the usual surreal hi-jinks. In Wolf's crazy universe, a never-never-land gag is always around the corner.
Columbus Dispatch
Wolf freely mixes Toons and human characters in situations both real and surreal. It's a fast and funny story made up of equal parts of cartoon pratfalls, tough-guy detective action and sly humor. It's an endlessly entertaining tale with jokes and puns that leap at you like out-of-control cartoon speech balloons.
Austin American-Statesman
About the Author
It was watching Saturday morningcartoons "for research purposes" that inspired Wolf's idea for RogerRabbit.
"It was during the commercials," says Wolf. "I saw Tony theTiger and the Trix Rabbit, and Cap'n Crunch, cartoon characters, talking toreal people. And nobody seemed to think that was odd. I thought, 'What a greatidea for a novel. A place where Toons lived side by side with humans.' I wovethat into a mystery, and bingo, I had my book."
His innovative concept was the basis for the novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? Wolffound his idea hard to sell -- this time to publishers. Even with three wellreviewed science fiction novels to his credit, it took Wolf two years and 110rejections to find a publisher for his unusual book. "Publishers told meit was too esoteric. Too weird. Nobody would understand it," Wolfexplains. Finally, a small publisher took a chance and brought it out. Soonafter, Walt Disney Pictures came calling. Disney and Steven Spielberg teamed upto make Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The film became the most critically acclaimedand highest-grossing film of 1988, bringing in more than $750 million at thebox office as well as four Academy Awards.
Wolf has written ten novels.
He currently lives in Boston.