Showing posts with label Go-Go Comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Go-Go Comics. Show all posts

01 September 2020

Stupor, Snooper, or Blooper?

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.

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)

25 March 2018

Groovy Grass

Okay. I promised more Grass Green and those early fanzine parody strips, and Sunday Funnies seems like a fair place to drop them. Seeing Roy Thomas's  Bestest League Of America comics inspired Grass and ignited his passion for comics.
So, only 3 issues after Bestest League wrapped up in Alter Ego, Da Frantic Four* appeared -


Not long after, over at Komix Illustrated...


It didn't stop after Grass turned pro, either. He got to draw his version of the Bestest League of America and have a Marvelous time, too, for Go-Go Comics -


Damn shame we lost Green just as the world was beginning to rediscover him in this century.

art by Grass Green from Alter Ego #6, Komix Ilustrated #13, and Go-Go Comics #6 (1963, 1965, 1967)


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*(Da Frantic Four was actually inspired by The Frantic Four, a single panel toon by Ronn Foss that ran in The Comicollector #8:

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10 March 2018

Puzzleless Solutions

Yesterday's Friday Fun & Games feature did not have the typical quiz, puzzle or conundrum requiring answers today. That leaves us with a new problem to solve - what to do in place of Saturday Solutions?

Easy answer?
It's Saturday morning - let's have some toons! And let's spread 'em out through the day.
So, to open - a toon about tunes drawn by our recent featured artist, Grass Green -


Next up - more Grass and Fairy Tale Fun!

Maury Decay from Go-Go Comics #9 (1967)

08 March 2018

Go-Go Grass

Grass Green (Richard Eugene to his mom) was known for his underground comix work, and he was one of the stars of the 60s fanzine scene. So it might come as a surprise that he began his professional career in comics at Charlton. His first gig was "like, the world's most far-out super-hero" for Charlton Premiere (we'll see him later today, don't fret) and he continued to do a bit of work with them, including the short 2-part tale we'll be looking at this time.

It comes to us  from Go-Go Comics #s 6 & 7, and is blurbed on the cover of the former:


Superella's farthest out fairy tale was written by Gary Friedrich with art by Grass Green -




pages by Gary Friedrich & Grass Green from Go-Go Comics #s 6&7 (1967)