Boy! That Elephant Sure Is BAD!

So...
I was planning an Ellis Chambers post for The 1940s Funny Animalphabet featuring his work in Buster Bunny. Then i noticed a slight technical problem. Though the title debuted in the late 1940s, the stories didn't appear until 1950-52.

Oops. I guess they'll have to wait a spell.

Holly didn't do a whole lot for the book - only eight stories ranging from one to eight pages. We ran his Tommy Turtle tale from Buster Bunny #3 previously. Here are the rest of his signed stories from Buster Bunny, with one exception. The only copy i've ever found of #13 was a scan, and that was destroyed by a clumsy attempt to 'restore' it. That Chester Cat tale will have to wait until either i find a paper copy or have the hours and patience to try to repair the damage. Today we've got Buster & Bill Bunny, Cuffy, Dizzy Duck and Goofy Gander.

Ellis' first and longest tale for Buster Bunny comics appeared in #4 -

On a side note, i don't know what the frell is wrong with the way Blogger is displaying the standard text for the post. It should be larger and easier to read. Maybe it is on your system. For reference, this text is "normal" sized. The credits note below is "smallest" size. This should display almost twice the size of the text below, but on my system they're pretty much the same size.
But maybe it's my settings...

page art by Ellis Holly Chambers from Buster Bunny #s 4, 5, 7, 9 & 10 (1950, 1951)

Sunday Morning Funnies w/ Ellis Chambers

It's been quite a while since we've had our Sunday Morning Funnies feature, so let's go with a fair sized batch today - all by one of our favorites around these parts, Ellis Holly Chambers.

Given that The 1940s Funny Animalphabet is off on its own now, we'll avoid his '40s funny animal works today. We'll look instead at work from the '50s and strips starring human rather than animal characters.

Let's start with one i mentioned very recently while talking about Wonderland Comics. Here's The Boy Pirate -

When speculating upon what might have happened to Ellis Chambers, i sometimes wonder if the drug use sometimes caused problems with his editors, possibly leading to hiring him less and less over time. While they seemed to like his work, the same might not necessarily be said for him. The tale above stands mute witness to this possibility. Twice more it ran in the same title, once the following year and again three years later. In both cases, his signature had been removed from the lower right corner of the title panel...

...and extra shame given the more interesting colour schemes used in the reprints.

Bonus Ellis Oddness:
I don't often post memes/image-macros here, but we've got a worthy exception here today. However, it will only fully make sense to those who are familiar with Howie Post's recollections of Ellis Chambers. (See Comic Book Artist #5 or this post for details.)

As often as i've seen this one out there, i don't think i've seen it better used. Certainly not for our purposes.
Thanks to Nick for sending his creation my way!

page art by Ellis Chambers for Wonderland Comics #8, Buster Bunny # 3, Sands Of The South Pacific #1, and Marmaduke Mouse #s 23, 33 & 56 (1946-7, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955)

image macro by Nick (2018)