Showing posts with label Hillman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hillman. Show all posts
Sunday, November 22, 2020
Life's A Journey, Man
Sunday Surprise Day.
I was loking at Hillman comcis and was surprised to find a Bernie Krigstein story I had bever seen before.
Monday, December 19, 2016
Inky Was A Pencilly As Well
Sunday Meskin Measures.
An intermezzo in my run of George Roussos' General Electric promotional comics. Roussos worked for every company possible (except maybe DC). Here are two stories from Hillman books, that are from the same period of the GE books I have been showing. You see he has a solid style if he wants, but also that the extra time (and money) he got for the GE books really helped.
An intermezzo in my run of George Roussos' General Electric promotional comics. Roussos worked for every company possible (except maybe DC). Here are two stories from Hillman books, that are from the same period of the GE books I have been showing. You see he has a solid style if he wants, but also that the extra time (and money) he got for the GE books really helped.
Sunday, February 08, 2015
Girls Girls Girls
Friday Comic Book Day.
At one time I collected Timely books with Krigstein stories in them. These days, such things are often readily available on the internet, but I do come across one I had not seen before every once and again. This one from a Hillman title I forgot to note the name of.
At one time I collected Timely books with Krigstein stories in them. These days, such things are often readily available on the internet, but I do come across one I had not seen before every once and again. This one from a Hillman title I forgot to note the name of.
Sunday, June 29, 2014
A Date With Destiny
Sunday Mort Meskin Day.
This week, all four issues of the late forties Hillman title My Date were uploaded to the Comic Book Museum. My Date was the firt of th enew magaznes created for Hillman by the lgendary team of Simon and Kirby. It was filled with 'teen' gag strips, a sub-sub-sub gere om American culture tat was very popular around that time, with radio and movie series. Around that same tim, Archie emerged as well and become on to be the market leader in the genre. But around that time, every company had it's own.
Simon and Kirby's version destinguisehd itsefl by being even more romance centered than the others. In that repspect it was a clear precursor to their later breakthrough comic book series Young Romance (which revolutionized the industry and lead to a whole decade of romance comics).
Of course, not everything in the book was by Simon and Kirby. They never worked like that, alway spreading their talent over several projects. I don't think they already had a studio back then, but in any way this is also the first tme they worked with Mort Meskin. I know he was considered to have done a cover for a later number), but here he is with a full ten page story in what I consider to be his best style. Similar to but maybe a bit less finished than the work he was about to do with Jerry Robinson. Not only is it a very well drawn romance story (in may ways better that the one he would turn out later for Young Romance and Young Love, etc), it also has a couple of extras: several interesting transformation panels and a very impressive bad dream/halicination panel.
This week, all four issues of the late forties Hillman title My Date were uploaded to the Comic Book Museum. My Date was the firt of th enew magaznes created for Hillman by the lgendary team of Simon and Kirby. It was filled with 'teen' gag strips, a sub-sub-sub gere om American culture tat was very popular around that time, with radio and movie series. Around that same tim, Archie emerged as well and become on to be the market leader in the genre. But around that time, every company had it's own.
Simon and Kirby's version destinguisehd itsefl by being even more romance centered than the others. In that repspect it was a clear precursor to their later breakthrough comic book series Young Romance (which revolutionized the industry and lead to a whole decade of romance comics).
Of course, not everything in the book was by Simon and Kirby. They never worked like that, alway spreading their talent over several projects. I don't think they already had a studio back then, but in any way this is also the first tme they worked with Mort Meskin. I know he was considered to have done a cover for a later number), but here he is with a full ten page story in what I consider to be his best style. Similar to but maybe a bit less finished than the work he was about to do with Jerry Robinson. Not only is it a very well drawn romance story (in may ways better that the one he would turn out later for Young Romance and Young Love, etc), it also has a couple of extras: several interesting transformation panels and a very impressive bad dream/halicination panel.
Sunday, March 30, 2014
I Hardly Knew Ye
Sunday Meskin Measures.
Sometime it pays that I am such a compulsive reader of comics. Everytime there is a new scan available on the Digital Comic Museum, I have a look through it, even if it is a minor title. This week, in the last issue of Hillman's Romantic Confessions (V3#1) I came across this four page story. Even thought it can sometimes be difficult to tell the work of Mort Meskin and George Roussos apart, I am pretty sure we are looking at a previously unnoted 1953 Mort Meskin story, which is around the time his work for Prize was slightly winding down (but before he started doing work for Dreams). My guess is, this story was not drawn by Meskin, but it was heavily redrawn by him while inking, which is mostly visible on the faces.
Sometime it pays that I am such a compulsive reader of comics. Everytime there is a new scan available on the Digital Comic Museum, I have a look through it, even if it is a minor title. This week, in the last issue of Hillman's Romantic Confessions (V3#1) I came across this four page story. Even thought it can sometimes be difficult to tell the work of Mort Meskin and George Roussos apart, I am pretty sure we are looking at a previously unnoted 1953 Mort Meskin story, which is around the time his work for Prize was slightly winding down (but before he started doing work for Dreams). My guess is, this story was not drawn by Meskin, but it was heavily redrawn by him while inking, which is mostly visible on the faces.
Friday, March 28, 2014
A Briefer History of Time
Friday Comic Book Day.
Dick Briefer is best known for his work on Frankenstein for Prize. A weird creature, who started out as a funny character, later became more serious and ended with funny stories again. Briefer worked eaqually well as a srious and funny artist, as the stories here show. They were done for Hillman, a company he is not much associated with. He started out doing funny fillers and ended up doing serious rmance work. As comptetant a that is, I prefer his funny stuff.
Dick Briefer is best known for his work on Frankenstein for Prize. A weird creature, who started out as a funny character, later became more serious and ended with funny stories again. Briefer worked eaqually well as a srious and funny artist, as the stories here show. They were done for Hillman, a company he is not much associated with. He started out doing funny fillers and ended up doing serious rmance work. As comptetant a that is, I prefer his funny stuff.
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