Here, let's let Alice show you...
We'll see about that...
Meanwhile - where did this come from? Perhaps a further sampling might offer a little hint?
No?
Okay - here's a more direct clue to the book...
Well, it was more clue if your brain runs in the same deranged circles mine does. This was what happened when Marvel Comics collided with Kitchen Sink in the Underground. It was History -
Well, not quite what i meant, but - okay.
Of course, even when Marvel went underground, superheroes followed...
No worries - we've got another token, so we can keep playing next time...
page art by Bill Sanders, Basil Wolverton, Ted Richards & Justin Green, Leslie Carbarga and Peter Poplaski for Comix Book #s 1-3 (1974, 1975)
Back when Comix Book #1 first went on sale in the UK, I bought it but didn't think much of it. I DID like the Alice In Watergateland strip though, so cut it out and kept it - still have it today in fact, but I disposed of the rest of the mag. When the hardback collection featuring the (alleged) best of Comix Book was published a few years ago, I bought that too, but was disappointed to see that the Alice strip hadn't been included, but at least I had the front cover again, inside the book. That cover had stayed in my memory for all the years since I had first bought #1. Not that long ago, a few months apart, I was able to obtain two copies of that first ish, the second of them for an absolute song, so it's good to have replaced the complete comic after all this time. However, I still reckon that the Alice strip is the best thing to come out of all five issues of the short-lived mag (of which I had only the first back in the '70s). Incidentally, you can see some things you may not have seen before (unless you have the hardback book) in my post 'Comix Book Cover Gallery'.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Alice was easily the best in that first issue.
ReplyDeleteBut, they did run other good things - though my idea of Best Of and the publisher's idea rarely agree. (The collection is hiding in the back of the cave. I'll have to go take a looksee at those bits you're talking about)
For example, Maus ran in issue 2. And they had a bunch of top talent work on the book.
But it also had corporate editors overseeing an anarchic rule-breaking creative medium. As you noted, that sucked much life out of it leaving it feeling rather ... let's say uninspired. I'm nice that way.
Stop laughing.
#1 Son hit town on a day with a local food fest down the hill. So i be out of here - no post likely today.