Well, Of All The Wacky Races!

It's Sunday?
When did that happen?
(Beyond the obvious "today")

Seems i skipped ahead again. So let's turn to our favorite Funnies maker for some Sunday Morning Funnies to help us get caught up. Of course, i mean Ellis Chambers. Here's a trio of his comic craziness, starting with one that turns things on their head (once again)...

It's purely my own speculation, but i suspect that strips done in this looser style may have been the result of some of those infamous late night heroin binges...

(As we can see (or hear) from that second panel, cartoons influenced more than Ellis's visual style(s))

Let's wrap with another EC superhero strip. We've seen multiple Cosmo Cat stories, and Super Dog from Ellis. Here's his 'cousin', Superfox -

That one was a popular story, published 3 times between 1947 & 1958 in Daffy Tunes and two editions of Holiday Comics. (We went with Daffy Tunes for the original colouring)

page art by Ellis Holly Chambers for Daffy Tunes #12 and Prize Comics #50 (1945, 1947)

So THAT's Where Rainbows Come From!

Urk.
Somehow slept for about 15 hours. Brain & body not reconnecting after time apart. So here's a couple Ellis Chambers quickies for a Sunday Morning Funnies post -

Of course, with Ellis Chambers, that could have ended much more darkly. In fact, one might even ponder if perhaps the story could have been a reaction to an editor asking him to lighten up a bit on the fate of the bad guys. But that's nothing more than a touch of random speculation triggered by the way he teased with the "You don't mean - murder!" bit. And, y'know - the number of times his stories have ended in death.
(Hooray! I wrote that bit yesterday, so we gots some words in there.)

page art by Ellis Chambers for Daffy Tunes #12 (1947)

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)

Good Thing I'm Wearing My Long, Super Thick Leather Undewear...

Just a simple Sunday Morning Funnies post today. First up, the Flap Flipflop tale i promised yesterday...

The Adventures Of Kismet The Camel! (and that Capt. Terry Thunder guy, too)...

To wrap things up this morning, let's visit once again with Ellis Chambers and Cosmo Cat. This time, instead of causing suicides he's looking to prevent one...

We should have known ... Comics Are The Answer!

page art from Krazy Komics v2 #2, Jungle Comics #11, and Cosmo Cat #10 (1940, 1947, 1948)