Showing posts with label Gordon Bess. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gordon Bess. Show all posts

Saturday, February 29, 2020

The Not So WIld Wild West

Saturday Leftover Day.

For today's post I found a couple of Sundays from Gordon Bess' Redeye, a funny enough (if a bit tame) strip, that has a special meaning to me. It was used in the Belgian weekly magazine Tintin (or Kuifje in Dutch) and was a bit out of the ordinary there. I have shown more before (though not too many ones in color) and you'll find them if you folow the link. I like the earliest samples the best. By 1971 (the las sample) Bess had found the style he was doing this strip in and it sort of looks the same like everything around at that time, A little bit of Bill Yates, Mel Casson, Henry Boltinoff... all of those former cartoonists who had turned to newspaper strips.





Saturday, November 24, 2018

When The West Was Sorta Wild

Saturday Leftover Day.

Today we are going funny. This strip is one of the favorites from my youth. It was published in the Dutch version of the French-Belgian weekly Tintin (which was called Kuifje). Although American, it was a solid sample of classic one page gags, much like the Yogi Bear and Flintstones Sundays. Beetle Bailey and BC always seemed a lot more 'American', mostly because they used that trick where the first two panels were a gag on their own (so they could be dropped for the two-tier version).