Pas De Repos Paisible Pour Marcel

Pauvre Marcel, si fatigué qu'il entrevoit au-delà des illusions de sa réalité...

J'adore Caza.

the works by Caza, from the English translations in Heavy Metal #s 37 & 83 (1980, 1984)

Meet The Blanks

As we learned in the previous post, Meet The _______ was a strip appearing in Tinkle, the comic from India, which focused on a different creature in each episode. (Usually Fauna, but not always.) Last time i promised a collection of those strips, so let's jump right in.
All these strips were scripted by Ashvin and illustrated by Pradeep Sathe, whose work we saw on a few strips earlier today.

I mentioned plants getting coverage, but not just any plant. Unlike the animals, this one is written by S.M. Almeida, with artwork from J.P. Irani -

page art by Pradeep Sathe and J.P. Irani for Tinkle #s 5, 6, 14, 16, 19, 20, 22, 28, & 50 (1981-1984)

Sunday Morning Funnies, Once Again

My brain is foggy, and i'm too knackered to go look, but it seems like it's been a fair bit since we had a nice, simple, Sunday Morning Funnies. Regular readers (and irregular readers perusing these pages on a persistent basis) know i've been holed up in my cave mentally of late. I feel like getting out and stretching, so let's get our funnies today from abroad - we'll ease in with a strip from England, then head on over to Poland, and down to India.
But - Fear Not! Comics pulled from non-English books are wordless, and one is even kind enough to have an English language title. Probably not just to make it easy for me, but that's what we'll be pretending here.

We begin in England with the first comic from the first issue of The Beano, published 80 years ago in 1938 and the artist seems lost to time, at least on this side of the Atlantic -

From Poland, we have bits by Marek Raczkowski from Komiks 97...

...and January Misiak from Komiks 99 -

And, from India, a few comics  from the back of Bruce Lee's Escapade In Kalahari courtesy of Shehab and Prakash -

We'll be back at midday with a couple short comic adventures for a 1958 Super Matinee.
You have no idea how hard i'm working to resist the soon-to-be-obvious pun.

The Beano #1, Komiks 97, Komiks 99, and Indrahal Comics v.21#31 (1938, 1997, 1998, 1984)

Ah, Love...

Yesterday was fun & games, not (overt) puzzles, so no Saturday Solutions are required.
Instead, we'll carry on with the Fleener Fun all day today.

Let's start with Mary Fleener's first comic work - a 1984 mini-comic created in collaboration with John Eberly-

In its way, a better "Love Story" than Romeo & Juliet.
After all - it lasted more than two days,they weren't infatuated teenagers, they didn't kill anyone, and they lived happy together.

True Love is usually deeply disturbing, eh?

They Were In Love from John Eberly and Mary Fleener (1984)