Connect The Plots

Saturday Leftover Day.

I love the various game features that ran in the Sunday Newspapers. I remember how I read some of them when I was a kid (translated into tabloid format in one of my Dutch comics magazines). Some are better than other sof course. Here are a couple of one of the less attractive ones. Pixie Puzzle Adventures tried to combine the puzzles with an ongoing story. I made the art sort of the ame every week. If you want to see other samples, please followe the links. Pixie Puzzle Adventures was in quite a few papers, inlcuding the New York Herald Tribune. I will be selling a lot of stuff from that paper on Ebay in a couple of days. It will include many more samples of this feature than I scanned.

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Christmas Teasers

Saturday Leftover Day.

In all the years of looking though newspapers I came across quite a few features that were not gagstrips of storystrips. There were also the newspaper ads that I showed here, by any number of capable artists such as Dik Browne, Stan Drake, Jack Betts, Gill Fox, Carl Wexler, Frank Robbins, Lou Fine, Alex Kotzky, Bob BUgg, Tom Scheuer or Neal Adsms. But there were also many different puzzle and game features, usually for kids, usually not very well drawn or very interesting. One of the best ones was done for King Features and was a regular part of their prepackaged Puck Sunday section. They used old King Features characters like Alphonse and Gaston or Happy Hooligan. I never scanned any of them, because I didn't scattered single installments would work. I did show a couple of black and white ones from various micrifiche sources. But here is the real thing. A couple of months ago I got a whole set of them from 1949 and I am presenting those here, often with the answer to puzzles the week after that. So print them out use them to make your Christmas break a little more irrelevant.

Working The Page

 Wednesday Oddbal Day.

A friend of mine makes cartoon puzzle for kids. For him (and for anyone out there who remembers doing them), here is a whole load of Pixie Puzzles by Matt Curzon. There were many of these type of features, not always the best drawn. But Curzon was consistantly good for a lot of years. If you like this short of thing, have alook at my selection of Comic Weekly Club Corner Sundays, a similar feature that used old newspaper strip characters.