From Young Love #61 a nice late Meskin story.
Sunday, January 31, 2016
Saturday, January 30, 2016
Pictorial Delight
Saturday Leftover Day.
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Damon Runyon is one of America's great light novelists of the middle of the last century. He is of course best know for his stories about sportsmen and loveable criminals, bt he also wrote about normal families. The early fifties book The Turps collected all the various short stories he had written about the Turp familily, starting from the late thirties and even including some unpublished ones. I bet these short stories done for King Features weekly Pictorial Review were included, although I am pretty sure the illustrations by Abner Bean weren't. I hope I have made the scans big enough for you to read the stories as well as look at them. These are from the Boston version of PR. Apparently papers were allowed to make their own selection of illustrated columns in this very exciting weekly (that unfortunately was squeezed out of the recent book celebration 100 years of King Features strips).
Damon Runyon is one of America's great light novelists of the middle of the last century. He is of course best know for his stories about sportsmen and loveable criminals, bt he also wrote about normal families. The early fifties book The Turps collected all the various short stories he had written about the Turp familily, starting from the late thirties and even including some unpublished ones. I bet these short stories done for King Features weekly Pictorial Review were included, although I am pretty sure the illustrations by Abner Bean weren't. I hope I have made the scans big enough for you to read the stories as well as look at them. These are from the Boston version of PR. Apparently papers were allowed to make their own selection of illustrated columns in this very exciting weekly (that unfortunately was squeezed out of the recent book celebration 100 years of King Features strips).
Friday, January 29, 2016
A Rebel Without A Horse
Thursday story strip day.
As I have said again an again, the newspaper comics of the fifties were far from the wasteland they have been made out to be by lazy comic book and strip historians. Especially in the late fifties, many effots were made to reintroduce the greatness of the strips from previous decades. The still going Prince Valiant was a huge influence of course, justifying a whole genre of illustrated strips with dialoge not in the balloons but in blocks of text underneath the images. Frank Giacoia's Johnny Reb was a prime example of this and I hope one day to be able to present the whole strip here. I have shown a lot it's three years here, but recently I came across another set of tear sheets which I am sharing here. Some of these strips I have shown before, others not (or only in black and white). I will go back and add the new ones to the longer 'complete' runs of my earlier posts. But for now you can just enjoy them here. Althiough he has the reputation of never doing any work without uncredited assistance from his 'frirnds' (such as Gil Kane, Mike Sekowsky and Carmine Infantino), the earliest ones have all the marks of Giacoia doing them himself. But there are some by Jack Kirby as well.
As I have said again an again, the newspaper comics of the fifties were far from the wasteland they have been made out to be by lazy comic book and strip historians. Especially in the late fifties, many effots were made to reintroduce the greatness of the strips from previous decades. The still going Prince Valiant was a huge influence of course, justifying a whole genre of illustrated strips with dialoge not in the balloons but in blocks of text underneath the images. Frank Giacoia's Johnny Reb was a prime example of this and I hope one day to be able to present the whole strip here. I have shown a lot it's three years here, but recently I came across another set of tear sheets which I am sharing here. Some of these strips I have shown before, others not (or only in black and white). I will go back and add the new ones to the longer 'complete' runs of my earlier posts. But for now you can just enjoy them here. Althiough he has the reputation of never doing any work without uncredited assistance from his 'frirnds' (such as Gil Kane, Mike Sekowsky and Carmine Infantino), the earliest ones have all the marks of Giacoia doing them himself. But there are some by Jack Kirby as well.
Rebel Without A Horse
Thursday story strip day.
As I have said again an again, the newspaper comics of the fifties were far from the wasteland they have been made out to be by lazy comic book and strip historians. Especially in the late fifties, many effots were made to reintroduce the greatness of the strips from previous decades. The still going Prince Valiant was a huge influence of course, justifying a whole genre of illustrated strips with dialoge not in the balloons but in blocks of text underneath the images. Frank Giacoia's Johnny Reb was a prime example of this and I hope one day to be able to present the whole strip here. I have shown a lot it's three years here, but recently I came across another set of tear sheets which I am sharing here. Some of these strips I have shown before, others not (or only in black and white). I will go back and add the new ones to the longer 'complete' runs of my earlier posts. But for now you can just enjoy them here. Althiough he has the reputation of never doing any work without uncredited assistance from his 'frirnds' (such as Gil Kane, Mike Sekowsky and Carmine Infantino), the earliest ones have all the marks of Giacoia doing them himself. But there are some by Jack Kirby as well.
As I have said again an again, the newspaper comics of the fifties were far from the wasteland they have been made out to be by lazy comic book and strip historians. Especially in the late fifties, many effots were made to reintroduce the greatness of the strips from previous decades. The still going Prince Valiant was a huge influence of course, justifying a whole genre of illustrated strips with dialoge not in the balloons but in blocks of text underneath the images. Frank Giacoia's Johnny Reb was a prime example of this and I hope one day to be able to present the whole strip here. I have shown a lot it's three years here, but recently I came across another set of tear sheets which I am sharing here. Some of these strips I have shown before, others not (or only in black and white). I will go back and add the new ones to the longer 'complete' runs of my earlier posts. But for now you can just enjoy them here. Althiough he has the reputation of never doing any work without uncredited assistance from his 'frirnds' (such as Gil Kane, Mike Sekowsky and Carmine Infantino), the earliest ones have all the marks of Giacoia doing them himself. But there are some by Jack Kirby as well.
Old News
Wednesday Advertising Day.
One of the advantages of cutting up some of the beautiful newspaper books I bought fifteen years ago is the fact that I am finally able to scan some of the rarer finds in them. Here are three ads from 1941 and 1950 that will probably have never been seen anywhere else. Ralph Stein was a cartoonist and illustrator who did a lot of work for King Features Pictorial Review magazine. He joined Bill Zaboli in the late ffities as the writer/lay-out sketch artist of Popeye in the years before Bud Sagendorf took over the franchise. Stein often did car related illustrations, so it is fitting he was asked to do these ads for Shell oil. The life insurance ad by Noel Sickles is the real rarity here. Sickles was a fenomenal artist, whose black and white line work inspired Milton Caniff and many others in the forties. After the war he turned to illustration, working in a variety of techniques. This is one of the few black and white wash illustrations of his I have ever seen, from a slightly earlier period.
One of the advantages of cutting up some of the beautiful newspaper books I bought fifteen years ago is the fact that I am finally able to scan some of the rarer finds in them. Here are three ads from 1941 and 1950 that will probably have never been seen anywhere else. Ralph Stein was a cartoonist and illustrator who did a lot of work for King Features Pictorial Review magazine. He joined Bill Zaboli in the late ffities as the writer/lay-out sketch artist of Popeye in the years before Bud Sagendorf took over the franchise. Stein often did car related illustrations, so it is fitting he was asked to do these ads for Shell oil. The life insurance ad by Noel Sickles is the real rarity here. Sickles was a fenomenal artist, whose black and white line work inspired Milton Caniff and many others in the forties. After the war he turned to illustration, working in a variety of techniques. This is one of the few black and white wash illustrations of his I have ever seen, from a slightly earlier period.
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Soldiering On
Tuesday Comic Strip Day.
In the beginning of this year I shared a long run of the war strip Draftie, which changed it's name to Lem and Oinie in 1945. This charming and well made strip is quite unknown. The five samples I have today are about a year earlier than the ones I showed earlier and already the artist (which for a large part of the run was Bill Juhre, despite the fact it was signed by writer Paul Fogarty on his own).
In the beginning of this year I shared a long run of the war strip Draftie, which changed it's name to Lem and Oinie in 1945. This charming and well made strip is quite unknown. The five samples I have today are about a year earlier than the ones I showed earlier and already the artist (which for a large part of the run was Bill Juhre, despite the fact it was signed by writer Paul Fogarty on his own).
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