Once upon a time, comics - and even superheroes - were fun...
Let's go there for some Saturday Morning Toons, eh? To kick it off, Flippity (née Flippy) and Flop, from Hubie Karp and Jim Davis. That Garfield guy was 6 years old when this came out, so let's assume it was a different Jim Davis, okay? I believe this is the same Jim Davis who illustrated Tom Lerher's classic The Hunting Song for The Dude.
From the same team (and co-starring in the same book)...
Yes, i'm lazy. We're not sure who wrote this, but it's Jim Davis on the art again, and we're still in the same title...
These guys all played in Flippty and Flop all through the 1950s. The title ran 47 issues, from 1951...
...to 1960...
...and, yes - that cage showed up on a Lot of covers.
I don't think we've looked at Hubie Karp much yet, neither here nor in the 1940s Funny Animalphabet.
We should correct that.
Let's go there for some Saturday Morning Toons, eh? To kick it off, Flippity (née Flippy) and Flop, from Hubie Karp and Jim Davis. That Garfield guy was 6 years old when this came out, so let's assume it was a different Jim Davis, okay? I believe this is the same Jim Davis who illustrated Tom Lerher's classic The Hunting Song for The Dude.
From the same team (and co-starring in the same book)...
Yes, i'm lazy. We're not sure who wrote this, but it's Jim Davis on the art again, and we're still in the same title...
These guys all played in Flippty and Flop all through the 1950s. The title ran 47 issues, from 1951...
 |
| (As you can see, Twiddle and Twaddle frequently received guest star billing on the cover) |
...to 1960...
 |
| (No DC! No Superman! They've gone INDependent) |
...and, yes - that cage showed up on a Lot of covers.
I don't think we've looked at Hubie Karp much yet, neither here nor in the 1940s Funny Animalphabet.
We should correct that.
page art by Jim Davis from Flippty and Flop #4 (I said i was lazy today) (1951)
