Monday Cartoon Day.
Today I have a couple of Wilbert cartoons by Gill Fox. They were done in a style which was influenced by Hank Ketcham. he wasn't the only artist working in that style around that time. There were quite a few Dennis the Menace imitations at that time, both in the comics and on the newspaper page. One of them was Angel, by Mel Casson - which also spawned a comic book series. An earlier effort by Casson, called Sparky, met with less succes. After all that I have the large selection of pages from a comic book called Clubhouse Rascals, which I think is by Fox. Or is it Casson anyway? Or someone else? Imitation styles are a lot harder to identify.
2 comments:
Hello Ger.
I'm pretty sure that the Clubhouse Rascals comic book was at least inked and lettered (if not also written and penciled) by the ubiquitous Vic Lockman, who - as you probably know - write about 7,000 stories for Dell/Western Publishing/Gold Key/Whitman.
I doubt if Mel Casson was involved with the production of this comic book.
Best,
Alberto
Yes, I too saw the huge difference in style from Angel to this. But the girl in the one-pager from Rascals does bear an uncanny resemblance to Angel. I did not know Lockman. I think the quality of Clubhouse Rascals is superb. If that is his work, he really was a good artist.
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