Showing posts with label Barnyard Comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barnyard Comics. Show all posts

25 July 2018

Frazetta On The Spots

Well, Huzzah!
All of the hardware eventually arrived and building is complete - the new desktop system is finally fully functional. At least on the hardware. The poor beast doesn't even have Photoshop installed yet. But - Progress!

Meanwhile, back at Frazetta's Funny Animals...  commenter Top Cat James kindly pointed out that IDW released a collection back in 2012 entitled Frazetta - Funny Stuff. You don't have to go hunting for ancient issues of Barnyard, Coo Coo Comics, Goofy Comics, etc.,.  You can read more on the book at IDW's website. (Don't worry - there's never any kickback links or that sort of thing on this site. I don't even have a means of accepting payments)

Apparently the book does include some of his spot illos for the text pages in those comics as well. How much it has, i've no clue. Frazetta did a lot of them - i can account for a hundred or so. Here's a couple dozen so you can get a look at his beautiful work on those. (see - I remembered!)

























It makes one actually want to read some of those old required text pages, doesn't it?

art by Fritz/Frank Frazetta for Barnyard Comics #s 14-45, Coo Coo Comics #s 37-46, and Goofy Comics #s 26 & 27 (1948, 1949)

24 July 2018

'40s Funny Animals On The Fritz

Continuing to run light on words at the moment.
Meanwhile...

One particularly egregious omission in the recently posted incomplete census of 1940s Funny Animals was the artist known as Fritz -


As we can see, Fritz did some beautiful Funny Animal work, with a heaping side dish of fantasy thrown in...


Of course, that should come as no surprise when we see him signing his more well known name - Frank Frazetta -


Frazetta drew at least a dozen Funny Animal strips in 1948 & 1949, and dozens of spot & header illustrations for the postal discount required text pages in those old comics.
If i forget to collect a bunch of those illustrations together for your perusal, feel free to remind me.

page art by Frank Frazetta for Barnyard Comics #s 19 & 22 and Coo Coo Comics #47 (1948, 1949)