Jimmy Wears Pink Too!

I mentioned yesterday that we'd be revisiting with folks who've appeared here previously. 'Folks' is used here to refer to creators, characters, and publications. Sounds much better than 'topics' to my inner ear.

To kick things off, let's welcome back Grass Green, making 3 Stooges with Mark Burbey and Eddie Eddings. I guess that works either way you read it. This one comes from RBCC #152...

Hmm...
Y'know, i don't think we've looked at Eddie Eddings yet...

We'll have to peek soon, eh?

Up next, we've got a one-shot Fly Girl, from Trina Robbins, no less. (How has Trina not appeared here yet? She's done some damned Odd things over the years.) 

At least, i think she's a one shot. There might have been some strips featuring her in The East Village Other, but i've only got maybe a half dozen issues and it's not exactly cataloged. This one pager comes from Gothic Blimp Works, which was published by the EVO back in 1968...

Trina's Sky Doll is not to be confused with Barbuci & Canepa's somewhat more famous Sky Doll, who has at least 3 books out there.


Now let's visit once again with a favorite of this blog (and of The 1940's Funny Animalphabet), that mysterious maker of madness - Ellis Chambers. This short tale is from a 1950 issue of Dizzy Duck (#32, for the curious who don't want to go all the way down to the credits notice), and so it belongs here and not there.

To wrap up our batch of bits & pieces, here's a lovely Ralph Bakshi based wrap-around cover from #149 of the Rocket's Blast Comic Collector from Wendy Pini -

Yeah - we need to run another batch of RBCC covers soon.

page art by Grass Green & Eddie Eddings, Trina Robbins, Ellis Holly Chambers, and Wendy Pini for RBCC #s 148, 149 & 152, Gothic Blimp Works #2, and Dizzy Duck #32 (1950, 1968, 1979, 1982)

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)