One of the many terrific artists who worked for Treasure Chest Of Fun & Fact whom we have yet to see here is Fran Matera. Unfortunately, Fran's most notable work, Chuck White (and his Friends), simply doesn't lend itself to to short form coverage like blog posts. It needs omnibus editions covering decades of evolving story.
We'll see Matera on some other series sometime, hopefully sometime soon, but while we're waiting we've got a little one-shot history comic written by D.H. Johnson. This feature is descended from earlier series like The What-If Fairy and The Story Of ________, at which we looked previously. Long after they dropped the formalized structure, they continued with strips that covered the story behind things in the world around their readers. In this strip, we look at the history that lead to Our Curious Calendar -
I realize that some may be confused by the assertation that this story covered civilizations more advanced than our own. That's likely a cognitive dissonance caused by confusing Technology and Civilization/Society.
When these societies encountered contradiction between their systems and objective reality, they labored to correct their systems to match reality.
In our society, we work to correct (or at least re-label) reality to match our system.
Obviously, their civilizations were more Advanced.
We'll see Matera on some other series sometime, hopefully sometime soon, but while we're waiting we've got a little one-shot history comic written by D.H. Johnson. This feature is descended from earlier series like The What-If Fairy and The Story Of ________, at which we looked previously. Long after they dropped the formalized structure, they continued with strips that covered the story behind things in the world around their readers. In this strip, we look at the history that lead to Our Curious Calendar -
I realize that some may be confused by the assertation that this story covered civilizations more advanced than our own. That's likely a cognitive dissonance caused by confusing Technology and Civilization/Society.
When these societies encountered contradiction between their systems and objective reality, they labored to correct their systems to match reality.
In our society, we work to correct (or at least re-label) reality to match our system.
Obviously, their civilizations were more Advanced.
page art by Fran Matera from Treasure Chest Of Fun & Fact v18 #9 (1963)
