Sincerely Flattering Flash

We previously looked at a few Flash Gordon parodies from back in the 1940s & '50s, but we only stopped due to the growing length of the post, not lack of material. Satires continued over the decades, sometimes tucked away in odd little corners, like this tale from the 2nd issue of Drag Cartoons back in '63. The story was published without art credits, but when the original art showed up for auction it was attributed to Mel Keefer -

From the 1970s, let's look over in one of our favorite old fanzines, the Rocket's Blast ComicCollector. In RBCC #134, Ron Wilber took part in the Flash Gordon celebration that filled the issue with his own satirized take...

Even as 1980 rolled around, Flash was still getting spoofed, as here by Dave Angus & Kevin O'Neill in 2000 AD -

Of course, once the Sam Jones/Queen version of Flash Gordon hit the theatres later that year, parodies naturally experienced a resurgence in popularity once more. Here's Paul Kupperberg and Bob Camp's version of the film, sporting a cover painting by Bob Larkin...

By the way, that story from the RBCC that we opened with came with a pretty cool Flash Gordon illo from Steve Fabian (Whom we somehow have yet to get around to featuring even though i started tucking things away for posting over a year ago) on the cover -

We'll be back this afternoon with another batch, and even a little bit of Buck Rogers, too.

page art from RBCC #134 (1977), 2000 AD #181 (1980), Drag Cartoons #2 (1963), and Crazy #75 (1981)

The Art Of Flesh (and Friends)

We've been looking at a bit of Flash Gordon parody lately, which quite naturally leads to the most ambitious effort in that arena - Flesh Gordon. Which means we'll be having this little discussion in our adult content 'back room' - The Other Voice Of ODD!

We're looking at the artwork, so we're only looking at the first movie. Flesh Meets The Cosmic Cheerleaders used no artwork for the title sequences, so they don't get to play today. But, no worries - we've got some others to join us in a bit.

So after we take a look at the title sequence artwork by  Cornelius Cole III...

...we'll be taking a peek at a few other parodies from Harvey Kurtzman, Wally Wood, Bill Pearson and Pete Poplaski.
And, no surprise, we'll toss in a bit of George Barr, too...

Slip on back past that brute checking ages to view the complete mirror of this post on The Other Voice Of ODD! and check it out.

artwork from Flesh Gordon (1974), Snarf #5 (1972), Witzend #11 (1978), and Naughty Knotty Woody (2007)

Read Your Vegetables

While i have made mention of my favorite underground artist team - the Overland Vegetable Stagecoach - it recently hurt my brain to realize that we've only had a single feature on Dave Sheridan, and only a single page of Fred Schrier's work.

Let us fix that, shall we?

Due to the Id-based nature of such trips, much of today's post has been split to our back room for adult content, The Other Voice Of ODD! Unlike most such posts, the back room version of this post does not include most of the stories presented here. It does feature the story above, The Fun House, and The Line (presented below with black bars) with the uncensored page, as well as The Sex Evulsors Of Technicus. Please visit the other version of this post to enjoy those tales.

(This page has been lightly censored. Not redacted, or any other BS way of avoiding saying censorship.
Unexpurgated version available on the back room version of this post.)

When previously we saw Fred Schrier's artwork, he showed us How To Build A Time Machine. Next time we visit, he'll show us how travel in one.

pages from Balloon Vendor # 1 (1971), Meef # 1 (1973), Mother's Oats #s 1-3 (1969, 1971, 1977)

Saturday Solutions - Marvel Uncoded

Y'know - With the first answer being "In The Bathtub", i think i'm just going to shut up and present the answers to yesterday's Friday Fun & Games without comment...

We'll leave the comedy today to the master - Dr. Doom?

I'm going back to bed.

quizzes & comedy(?) from Pizzazz #s 2, 3, 4, 7, & 8 (1977, 1978)