One of the (many) great things about Stan Freberg is that i can run across a comic from 65 years ago and still hear Stan's recordings in my head when i read it...
Some odd fun for us old folks, and perhaps younger listeners of good ol' Doctor D. If you were wondering, the comic came out just 3 years after the release of John And Marsha.
But, it sure doesn't make a lot of post, does it?
Hey! We just saw Frank Borth again this past week. How about we let him show us how to draw Benjamin Franklin?
Yes, i've been digging into the old blog piles. Maybe we'll finally get back to one of those dangling threads around here and follow up on one of the first gender swaps which are so fashionable these days.
Meanwhile, you know what else i've been missing?
Friday Fun & Games.
Think we can get that ball rolling again?
Let's find out...
It's possible that the puzzle page above was drawn by the same guy who did the one below from later in the same issue: our old fave, Ellis Chambers -
Okay, that'll do for a restart. Maybe it'll even continue. Either way, we'll have what answers there be on the morrow...
Some odd fun for us old folks, and perhaps younger listeners of good ol' Doctor D. If you were wondering, the comic came out just 3 years after the release of John And Marsha.
But, it sure doesn't make a lot of post, does it?
Hey! We just saw Frank Borth again this past week. How about we let him show us how to draw Benjamin Franklin?
Yes, i've been digging into the old blog piles. Maybe we'll finally get back to one of those dangling threads around here and follow up on one of the first gender swaps which are so fashionable these days.
Meanwhile, you know what else i've been missing?
Friday Fun & Games.
Think we can get that ball rolling again?
Let's find out...
It's possible that the puzzle page above was drawn by the same guy who did the one below from later in the same issue: our old fave, Ellis Chambers -
Okay, that'll do for a restart. Maybe it'll even continue. Either way, we'll have what answers there be on the morrow...
page art by Ed Haas from Get Lost #1 and Frank Borth from Treasure Chest Of Fun And Fact v.21#18 (1954, 1966)
plus puzzles (not telling yet)
Hey Look! "Ha-Ha" Haas is cribbing Harvey Kurtzman's Hey Look! "Ha-Ha" Haas is cribbing Harvey Kurtzman's Hey Look! "Ha-Ha" Haas is [Whoops, got stuck in a loop there].
ReplyDeleteAs they say, if you're going to steal, steal from the best.
I've been digging through a whole bunch of old parody comics - Whack, Nuts!, Get Lost, Panic, Riot, Madhouse, Bughouse, Flip, Eh!, Zany, ...
ReplyDeleteAfter a short bit it starts feeling like Everyone is stealing from Everyone. While quality varies, it sometimes feels like they were all produced in the same room.
Kurtzman, of course, set the standard, and anything he used he made better.