Rocky Start

Friday Old Comics Day.

Frank Engli is best known as Milt Caniff's letterer in the early forties, but he was also an accomplished artist. I discovered Engli's delightfull little strip Rocky in the Chicago Comic Book of the early forties, where it was first made. It went on for a long time, even after the half tabloid ersatz comic book Sunday section. I  even shared some of the one page Sunday only halve page cartoons he did after Rocky, called Looking back.

Sometime after the war reworked half tab pages from Rocky also ended up in one of those comic book girl magazines, called Keen Teens from Magazine Enterprises. It's quite funny and deserves to be remembered.