Ladies Day.

Sunday Dizzy Day. 

It's Me Dilly! waas a delightful comic strip from the late fifties and early sixties on a familiar subject. The slightly rique adventures of a pretty single woman  in the big city. Dilly may not have been as dumb as her predessors Dumb Dora, My Friend Irma and Jeanie or her successor Soozi, but she wasn't always very bright either. She was thought up by Mel Casson when they were the chairmen of the Cartoonists Society in the late fifties. Cassosn was the writer and Andriola was supposed to be the artist - which meant that he let his Kerry Drake assistant Sururi Gumen do the art on Dilly as well. In fact, he may have done all of it here, while Kerry Drake might have had some actual work done by Andriola (or another assistant). The art is the star here, but the gags are not as bad as they could have been.

 

All Betts Are On

Saturday Advertising Day. 

Jack Betts was one of the stallwards of the Johnstone and Cushing agency in the forties nd fifties. I have show a lot of hs work for J&C asd well as some of his work before and during his time there. He disappeqred in the late fifties, something I have written about as well. At J&C, he had two major accounts, for Nestlé's chocloate drink Nesquick and one for the pain relief creme Ben-Gay. The Ben-Gay ads always featured the green monster called Peter Pain. Here are some more I gathered from my own collection. The last one in this post is not by Jack Betts, but by some combination of Elmer Wexler and Creig Flessell, two other J&C regulars. I think it is from before Betts' disappearance, but maybe it was and he dsiappeared sooner than I thought. After the color ones, I have a whole set of black and white versions, from the earliest period of Betts' involvement.