Comics
Screwball! Comics
My pal Paul Tumey just released his magnum opus, a history of "screwball" comics. I'm reading my copy now, and it's great.If you go to the link, you get a PDF copy of one of his newsletters to sample what he's all about.
Order yours today!
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 17, 2020 -
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Category: Humor, Comics, Books, Twentieth Century
Peter Pain Parody
Alex and I never coordinate our posts, but sometimes they achieve thematic synchronicity. Yesterday, for instance, he posted about losing weight and I posted about obesity.But his post from today, about Corporate Icon Peter Pain, happened magically to dovetail with my leisure-time reading of last evening, when I was enjoying THE THING FROM THE GRAVE, a collection of the work that artist Joe Orlando did for the fabled EC Comics. I read Orlando's Peter Pain Parody, and then this morning found Alex's post!
BTW: the whole line of EC reprints from Fantagraphics is worthy of your attention.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 05, 2019 -
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Category: Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Comics, Homages, Pastiches, Tributes and Borrowings, 1950s, Parody, Pain, Self-inflicted and Otherwise
Valentina Perfume
Smell like a comic book.
Full story here.
Wikipedia page on original comic here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 08, 2019 -
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Category: Advertising, Comics, Perfume and Cologne and Other Scents
Mystery Illustration 88
In the Golden Age of comics, there was no internet to provide reference fotos for odd creatures or other objects/places/people which an artist might need to draw.
What creature is this artist attempting to depict?
The answer is here (page 23).
Or after the jump.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 06, 2019 -
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Category: Animals, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Comics, 1950s
Arm Fall Off Boy
One of the lesser-known superheroes in the DC Comics universe. Though to DC fans he's apparently fairly well-known, or notorious, as arguably the weirdest DC superhero. His superpower: being able to remove either of his arms (or his legs) and use them as weapons.More info: wikipedia
Posted By: Alex - Sun Sep 29, 2019 -
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Category: Comics, Superheroes
Cecil Jensen’s ELMO
I'm about thirty pages into this book, and can't recommend it highly enough. Pure hilarious surrealism.
Read a long article about the strip here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 11, 2019 -
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Category: Comics, Outsider Art, Surrealism, 1940s
Follies of the Madmen #437
1) A bicycle tire confusingly has the same name as a razor blade company.
2) The mascot for the tire is a hyper-dimensional polar bear. These creatures apparently represent all that is desirable in a tire.
3) Even with its magic powers, the hyper-dimensional polar bear does not act to save the victim directly, but makes the human boy do all the work.
4) Moral: buy our tires to avoid snake bites?
Source (page 20).
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 28, 2019 -
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Category: Accidents, Anthropomorphism, Bicycles and Other Human-powered Vehicles, Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Comics
The Cremain Comic Book
We've posted before about how, when Frisbee-inventor Ed Headrick died in 2002, his ashes were incorporated into special-edition frisbees that were sold for $200.Along similar lines, when comic book writer Mark Gruenwald died in 1996, some of his cremains were mixed into the printer's ink for the trade paperback compilation of his Squadron Supreme graphic novel. As explained by his widow:
If you're interested, You can buy a copy of the cremain edition on eBay for $199.99.
I wonder how many other mass-produced items have contained someone's cremains?
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jul 21, 2019 -
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Category: Death, Comics, 1990s
How to housebreak your dog
Ernie Bushmiller is best known as the creator of the Nancy comic strip, which was known for being very wholesome. But it turns out that his most popular and frequently reproduced cartoon, by a wide margin, was a slightly off-color one that he drew in 1961, and which was included that year in the Duch Treat Club Yearbook. He titled it "How to housebreak your dog."The Comics Journal details the many lives of this cartoon, noting:
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jul 06, 2019 -
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Category: Comics, Dogs, 1960s
Fearless Fosdick TV Show
A show derived from a parody within a newspaper comic strip--and using puppets.
That's meta!
Wikipedia entry.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 14, 2019 -
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Category: Cops, Puppets and Automatons, Television, Comics, 1950s, Parody
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