Changing Styles

Friday Comic Book Day.

One of the reasons I like browsing in the comic books over at the Digital Comics Museum is you never know what you will find as filler items in some of the books. From Standard's Happy Comics I have here a funny George Tuska fairy tale (which I recognize anywhere), one by George Roussos (which I wouldn't have recognized if it wasn't signed) and two by Frank Frazetta (which will probaby have been reprinted in Craig Yoe's excellent book of all of Frazetta's funny animal stories and illustrations).

  

Twinsy Turvey

FFriday Comic Book Day.

Did YOU know Frank Frazetta did something called Topsy Twins as a filler in Boots and her Buddies #9? I did NOT know Frank Frazetta did something called Topsy Twins as a filler in Boots and her Buddies #9.

Lost In The Woods

Tuesday Comic Strip Day.

It was Alan Holtz who first alerted me to the fact that the first few eeks of my favorite fifties satorical comedy strip Long Sam were probably not drawn by Bob Lubbers but by Frank Frazetta. I found the first Sunday as well which sort of proved the Frazatta connection and we came to the conclusion that there probaby was a presentation set by Frazetta consisting of one or two Sundays (I never found that second Sunday) and three weeks of dailies. Although the Sunday may have been inked by Frazetta, the dailies certainly weren't, leaving room for the idea that Lubbers might have inked them before taking over the strip when it was sold. Frazetta remained with Al Capp as a penciller for the rest of the decade. When I first worked this out, I showed those first few weeks. Since then I semmed to have cliped them a seond time and I present those clippings here again, along with a couple of more weeks that show Bob Lubbers taking over and making the strip his own.