Today we've got a semi-random sampling of old comics with little connective tissue. They're all comedy strips and they offer up the choices titling this post - StuporMan, the Snooper Man, and BlooperMan. The first two come from the '40s, and the last one comes from the '60s; twice. They all just jumped out as i was passing while thinking about another, harder to write, post.
Nonsense is always easier. Just ask our government.
From the first issue of Joker Comics, by Douglas Grant and Harry Ramsey, we've got StuporMan -
Twas only single digit minutes later when i bumbed into Soapy Sam, the Snooper Man - close enough for the rhyme to ring...
And not 15 minutes after that, BlooperMan got in on the act - and so a post was born. We've actually seen Blooperman before, on the cover of Go-Go Comics, back when we were looking at Bunny Luv, i think. Or maybe while visiting Grass Green's work on Superella. Either way, now we can finally see who that guy on the cover was, with Jon D'Agostino drawing the strip...
Some days are sillier than others.
Nonsense is always easier. Just ask our government.
From the first issue of Joker Comics, by Douglas Grant and Harry Ramsey, we've got StuporMan -
Twas only single digit minutes later when i bumbed into Soapy Sam, the Snooper Man - close enough for the rhyme to ring...
And not 15 minutes after that, BlooperMan got in on the act - and so a post was born. We've actually seen Blooperman before, on the cover of Go-Go Comics, back when we were looking at Bunny Luv, i think. Or maybe while visiting Grass Green's work on Superella. Either way, now we can finally see who that guy on the cover was, with Jon D'Agostino drawing the strip...
Some days are sillier than others.
page art by Douglas Grant & Harry Ramsey, ???, and Jon D'Agostino from Joker Comics #1, Terry And The Pirates #4, and Go-Go Comics #s 3 & 4 (1942, 1947, 1966)
No need to justify the sillier stuff. That's good artwork, especially on the forties strips, and those are readable stories. Quite enjoyable. Screwball-lite, I guess, but still quite enjoyable.
ReplyDeleteNot so much a justification as an unexpected realization. Not at all where i'd planned on going today. I thought we were going to start Button's UFO - another serial from Capt. Frank Moss and Frank Borth (The Enchanted Flivver guys).
ReplyDeleteNot quite what we got, eh?
But, tomorrow!
Nope. Another previously dangling Frank Borth thread got plucked instead and starts serializing in the morning.
I like that Screwball-lite designation. It may become a new classification in my personal sorting.
We may never see Button's UFO at this rate.
Oops. Somehow the last two sentences got transposed in the little edit window. I shoud really use the preview function.
DeleteHope it's not too confusing with the last sentence inserted earlier than it ought to be.