Kids At War

Monday Cartoon day.

This Saturday, I showed a single image from the American Legion cartoon series IMPulses by Ponce de Leon. Today I have another American Legion series, by one of my favorite 'unknown' creators S. B. Stevens. I first came to know Stevens from his kid's strip Small World (which you can find by following the link), a weird Peanuts knock-off not with kids being kids, but with kids dressed as their parents playing house. A genius twist by an artist who up till that point had been pidgeonholed as a kids cartoonist. In this cartoon we see a sort of forerunner of this concept - kids pretending to be soldiers. Some of these I showed before, but here is all I have at once. Along with that I have a couple of normal gag pages by Stevens as well.

Another Glance At Judy

Friday Comic Book Day.

I started, so I'll finish. Here are some more of the filler strips henry Boltinoff did for DC's A Date With Judy. Along with those are a couple of S. B. Steven' Stevie strips I just couldn't skip and another filler which seems like the work of Dan Gordon, but probably isn't (wrong company). More about S. B. Stevens if you follow the link. He had a very peculiar style and a limited subject list, but I think he is worth checking out.