I Need My Coffee Fix

Wednesday Advertising Day.

I still haven't found out which artist did these ads for Postum in the late forties and early fifties, but here are a couple more. At the end the appraoch seems to have changed slightly.

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Patsy through The Ages

Tuesday Comic Strip Day.

Patsy (in Hollywood)is one of those strips that had a lot of different artists and changed her style along with them every few years. The strip was created and owned by Associated Press and like other strips from that outfit, the artists were recruted from the bullpen. Some AP artists even worked on several of their strips, such as Secret Agent X-9. Patsy was handled at first by Mel Graff, but take over by Charles Raab when Graff left to do Secret Agent X-9. Raab was supposedly assisted by Noel Sickles on some weeks (some of which I showed in an earlier post). After Raab left he strip was taken over by lesser talent, until it returned to some sort of permanence again when it was given to Bill Dwyer after the war. Dwyer turned it into more of a funny strip, which seems to have had continuity on weedays and gags on Sundays. I showed two of the Sundays earlier, but saw I had three more. So here they are, together with a sampling of dailies from the later years.

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Real Gahan, Man

Monday Cartoon Day.

Over the years there have been several cartoonists who produced a Sunday page made of a lot of different cartoons. The most well-known example may be George Lichty's Grin and Bear it, but there were more. In the seventies Amrica's weirdest cartoonist Gahan Wilsn joined them with a Sunday only feature. It didn't run for a long time, probably because Wilson couldn't use his weirdest jokes for this family-friendly panel. Gahan went on to do more gags for Playboy and other big time magazines. Because recently it was announced that Fantagraphics is going to publish a complete collection of his Playboy cartoons, here are some of the Sunday pages.

The Case Of The Forgotten Illustrator

Sunday Illustration Day.

Stan Drake and Gil Fox weren't the only ones doing illustrations for King Features' Sunday Weekly. I the late fifties, prime Alex Raymond imitator (though some might take issue witht that epithath) Lou Fine (who probably also drew some of those wonderful Sam Spade ads I have been showing) did a couple of illustrations for a real crime feature written by Ellery Queen (or at least under taht name).