Thursday Story Strip Day.
These George Tuska drawn Buck Rogers stories are not among my most commented or visited, but I can't help but like them a lot. I like the kind of light science fiction it represents and the art is just gorgeous. As previous times, I will represent this story in two installments.
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Isn't that Mr. Coffe Nerves at in the last panel of 5/13?
I love the George Tuska work you put on your blog!!!
I see what you mean with Mr. Coffee Nerves. One of the drawbacks of George Tuska as an artist, is that he seems to have bult up his characters from indicidual bodyparts. They don't have the lived in quality, say, the characters of Roy Crane have. As the great stylist he was, he made them work, but I think any likeness you see in them is an accident of different parts (the sharp nose, the high forehead) coming together.
The finish may be a bit antiseptic in the DC-comics style of the time, but damn, Tuska was a fantastic storyteller. Thanks for posting these.
Dean, it's an honor to have you here. Anything you see here that could or should make a book, please ask. I'd love to do a complete Willy Lumpkin with a full history of all of Stan Lee's newspaper strips and efforts around that time (a romance strip with Vince Colletta, anyone?). Also, I'd love to do a skype interview for the blog on your books and projects.
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