Thursday Cowboy Day.
Tom Gill was a prolific artist who is mainly known for his work on The Lone Ranger, bioth in newspaper comics and monthly comics. He also had a shorlived modern adventure strip before The Lone Ranger. A year ago, I caollected some of them.
Wednesday Hobby Day.
Morrie Brickman is best known for his 1960's political newspaper strip The Sall Society. I have shown that he started out doing a small kids feature called Pix Trix that you had the fold in a way similar to Al Jaffee's later Mad Fold-In. In between he did this small thing called Do It Yourself. probably meant to be placed on some sort of activities page in the newspaper.
Tuesday Airforce Day.
The AAFF (American Air Force Features) was a regular comic nespaper that was produced by the Bradbury company to be distributed at US Air Force Bases. It ran from 1955 to 1965 (at least) and had a mix of funny and realistic stories. Some of the artists included in this package were big names from comics and cartoons. I have show most of their work in seperate posts over the years from an incomplete set of micr-fiche issues I found online. The completely forgotten Millie & Terry by Jack Cole (the missing link between his cartoon work and his newspaper comic strip Betsy and Me), Gooch by the marvalous Josh Benton, and strips by Henry Boltinoff, Jack O'Brien, Shelly Moldoff, vic Martin, Ben Wiseman, Mort Drucker and Rogoff (who I suspect was one of the organising talents behind this feature).
What I haven't how yet (or at least I don't think I have) is this set of realistic stories about Air Force Heroes. At one point I was convinced that artist doing most of these was Carl Pfeufer. But after all these years I don't remember where I found that. I have some more realistic stuff after that. The last one is signed by Pete Constanza, who sems a good candidate for the Fighting Heroes as well.
