Lahdida.

Monday Advertising Day.

I am selling a lot of Best of the Year cartoon books compiled by Lawrence Lariar. They were a staple in the forties and fifties. What makes the early ones so special is that they contained self written on paragraph bio's of all the cartoonists, usualy with a self portrait even. For Ebay I photographed them all (and I am saving them here). I have 1942 and 1944 so I am still looking for 1943. From 1946 the bio's disappear.

Ha! Not only did I redo a set of images I had already shared... I also chose the same title!

 Well, I'll just leave it up here.

 

I Will Be Your Long Lost Pal

Saturday Leftover Day.

Today I added another early Bodyguard Sunday by Lawrence Lariar and John Spranger. Spranger worked as Will Eisner's assistant for many years and it really shows. I had an almost complete run of the Sundays of this strip a year ago (including the later versions called Ben friday and The Bantam Prince by the same team) and put them in several posts. No one commented on them and they were not even visited a lot. Must have been a slow week. It represents one of the current problems of this blog - if I share unknown but beautiful material, chances are not many people will chance upon them. In this case, that is particulary sad, because Bodyguard is such a remarkable strip of very high quality. So please, hit any one of the loinks and take your time for an exciting read.

Lariardidah

Thursday Story Strip Day.

Continuing where I left off with John Spranger's Ben Friday (with only one Sunday missing in between) here is either the first or the second installment of The Bantam Prince. After six months, he would be relieved by Carl Pfeuer to leave for another more serious strip, the Saint.