More Wizardy

Friday Festivities. 

Here are some more magnificent Sundays from Johnny Hart and Brent Parker's Wizard of Id, which I prepared two years ago, but may have neglected to upload. If not, the remain fresh as ever.

 

Yip-Yip-Yip

Thursday Cowbiy Day. Some years ago I collected a whole lot of Sunday strips from the Midland Reporter Telegram. The MRT was a NEA paper, which means that they had all of the lesser known and lesser distributed strips from that syndicate, some of my favorites (and very hard to find). Unfortunately the mico-fiche scans were very bad, ranging from way too dark to far too light. Cleaning out my files, I decided to share them anyway for the unseen gems that may be among them. 

The subject of today's post was completely un known to me until I found thios paper. The arist is familiar, since I have posted some of his other material earlier. Clark Haas was an extremely competent comedy artist, who is best known for making the late fifties/early sixties 'animation' series Clutch Cargo and Space Angel, where the animation effect was reached by double exposing real moving mouths over static art (by artists such as Alex Toth and Doug Wildey). He als wrote for the Addams Family television series of the ealry sixties. Yipee is a fun, but harmless, noder comedy western series, which - like yesterday's Things to Com - ran as a half page tabloid.

Girl With a Mission

Wednesday Hollywood Day.

Some years ago I collected a whole lot of Sunday strips from the Midland Reporter Telegram. The MRT was a NEA paper, which means that they had all of the lesser known and lesser distributed strips from that syndicate, some of my favorites (and very hard to find). Unfortunately the mico-fiche scans were very bad, ranging from way too dark to far too light. Cleaning out my files, I decided to share them anyway for the unseen gems that may be among them. 

Patsy in Hollywood was created by AP regular Mel Graff in a faux (but very well executed) Milt Caniff style. In the early forties the artwork was taken over by Charles Raab, one of the most forgotten Caniff illustrators. After he left to got to war, the strip was taken over by George Storm and Richard Hall, who changed it from a Caniff style adventure strip to a cuter gag strip. In Bill Dyer (1946-1955) returned it to a more adult series, which actual storylines and funny Sundays. The Sundays were marked by the fact that the last panel gag always was half a page. I have actually been able to find a few in color (as well as having an original), which I have shared earlier. But here are some more - and because the coloring was softer, the micro-fiche scans actually turned out better than the others in this series of posts.

Come To Things

Tuesday Things Day. 

Some years ago I collected a whole lot of Sunday strips from the Midland Reporter Telegram. The MRT was a NEA paper, which means that they had all of the lesser known and lesser distributed strips from that syndicate, some of my favorites (and very hard to find). Unfortunately the mico-fiche scans were very bad, ranging from way too dark to far too light. Cleaning out my files, I decided to share them anyway for the unseen gems that may be among them. 

Things To Come is one of my favorite Sunday features from this lot. Drawn by AP regular Hank Barrow (whoe othe AP work and political cartoons I have share many times). I actually have a few color samples I was able to seell. But most of what I have is not transformed to micro-fiche very well. It was a very colorful strip, with lots of red, which did not tranlaate very well. Still, the subject is great, the style funny. I'd love to get my ahnds on some realy appers that ran it (as half a tabloid page).