Monday, September 16, 2013

Magazine Fun

Monday Cartoon Day.

Every once in a while I go online and clip some stuff and save it until I have enough to share. So here are some of the Hank ketcham cartoons I came across the last few months.

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rodineisilveira said...

These materials were done by Hank Ketcham, before creating Dennis The Menace in 1951.
Nowadays, Dennis The Menace (after the Hank Ketcham's death in 2001) is produced by the two Hank Ketcham's ex-assistants: Marcus Hamilton (in the daily strips) and Ron Ferdinand (in the Sunday pages).

4:55 PM
rnigma said...

True. I met Marcus Hamilton at a convention in 1996. He had begun drawing some Dennis dailies, unsigned, around then. He got the job after seeing a TV interview with Ketcham, who said he was actively looking for a successor.

That "Discipline" cartoon looks like an early version of Dennis.

6:46 PM
Ger Apeldoorn said...

Yeah, there are many forerunners of Dennis in Ketcham's cartoon work. There are also many, many other nicely captured characters. Personally, I liked Dennis best when we saw more of his world (barbers, hobo's, rich ladies) which allowed Ketcham to use his awsome powers of observation and caricature. When he started depending on outside writers, he was less motivated by the drawing and more by the limited cast of characters and it because quite bland and repetitive for me. That's when the Sundays and comic books seemed to overtake the strip in popularity.

11:35 PM
Ger Apeldoorn said...

Rodney, thsnks for the commets on Hi and Lois. I know about their website. Maybe you can ask them to link to me! And while you are at it, I am still looking for someone who eill add a link to my blog to every relevant Wiki page...

8:19 AM

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