Tuesday Comic Strip Day.
I don't usually link to other blogs. Not out of disrespect, there are many good bloogers I follow, but out of a strong sense of obligation to bring you new and original material. But today I am dopping my obsessive standards and want to urge to go and check out a recent post by my interfriend Smurfsmacker. Our tastes run along the same lines in many ways (he is currently doing a series of posts featuring the first year of George Wunder's Terry and the Pirates in color for instance), but some time ago he did something I wold want to be able to do: he copied and translated a whole story from an early series by Benito Jacovitti. Go and have a laugh and see how much the Italian Funmaster was infuenced by Elsie Segar.
By the way, Smurf, if you are reading this: I have at least one of these stories in color and almost all of Cip's later incarnation from the seventies, when Jacovitti did who dunnit stories with him and Zagar. All ready and waiting to be translated.
Thanks for the plug, Ger! I would definitely be interested in seeing the later Cip stories. I have a fair amount of middle-period Jac in black and white reprint. But the only later color stuff I had was Cocobill and Zorry Kid from Corriere dei Piccoli...and they were lost in the same leak that messed up my Wunder originals.
ReplyDeleteOne really irritating thing about most of my later Jacovitti reprints is that he crammed dozens of panels onto a page with lots of dialogue, and the reprints shrink them so small they're almost impossible to read.
Yeah, the later Cip stories really should be run at the size of the old Life magazine... Thsnkfully the internet makes you read it at any size! Can you email me so I can send you scans? I have so much of his stuff and most of it in Italian!
ReplyDeleteYeah, the later Cip stories really should be run at the size of the old Life magazine... Thsnkfully the internet makes you read it at any size! Can you email me so I can send you scans? I have so much of his stuff and most of it in Italian!
ReplyDeleteIs there a way to get my email address to you without posting it publicly?
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