Electricying Carmen

Saterday Pride Day.

Alfred Mazure (Maz) is one of Hollands proudest export products as far as comics go.  Already more than famous for his Dick Bos comic adventures, he moved to Britain after World War Two when the comcis climate became too oppresive for his pulpy work. He did two hard-boiled detective stories for the Daily Herald, Sam Stone and Bruce Hunter (both obvious clones of Dick Bos). The Eagle ran Mazure's comics course 'Jiu-Jitsu for Self-Defence' between 22 March 1951 and 1 June 1952. Later more famously, he drew the first stories for Peter O'Donnell's Romeo Brown before starting his own strip for The Daily Sketch, Carmen & Co. None of these are available on the British newspaper site I frequent. But two stories of Carmen & Co were reprinted in another paper two years later. Here are some samples.

By the way, did you know that he can also be considered 'the father of journalistic comics' with his travelogue With Three Tires Through the Jungle in the thirties?

 

The Best Defense

Monday Bonus clip.

Let me do a quick new post to make up for the fact that I repeated myself on the previous one. This is a small editorial bij Alfred Andriola. It has been said about Amdriola that he never did anything himself and had assistents for everything. And I can certainly see some of those assistants in some of his work. But he was a greaat president of the National Cartoonists Society together with Mel Casson in the late fifties and a formidable promotor of newspaper comics. As is shown in this piece from 1954.

 

With that I have another newspaper article that is more of the regular promotional stuff. From 1957.

Lahdida.

Monday Advertising Day.

I am selling a lot of Best of the Year cartoon books compiled by Lawrence Lariar. They were a staple in the forties and fifties. What makes the early ones so special is that they contained self written on paragraph bio's of all the cartoonists, usualy with a self portrait even. For Ebay I photographed them all (and I am saving them here). I have 1942 and 1944 so I am still looking for 1943. From 1946 the bio's disappear.

Ha! Not only did I redo a set of images I had already shared... I also chose the same title!

 Well, I'll just leave it up here.