Inventing The Funnycar

I had planned to run the first full length Funnyman adventure, featuring teen fans mobbing celebrities to steal from them. A fair tale, perhaps a bit ahead of the cultural curve. But the second issue featured this oddball story that shoved its way up to the front of the queue, and i'm disinclined to argue with it. Somewhere between the Black Beauty and Silver lies Jet Jallopy, the Funnycar!

I hear a lot of talk these days about smart cars.
They've got a long way to go to catch up to Jet Jallopy!

tale by Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster for Funnyman #2 (1948)

A Sixpack Of Funny

Still having trouble focusing outward, so we're breaking the post into parts to get it going.
Just a batch of covers this time - all six issues of Funnyman - with the awaited reveal on our creators - Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, creators of Superman!  (And The Spectre, of course) *

Alien protector, supernatural avenger, bored clown.
You can't accuse the boys from Cleveland of simply trying to retread their previous ideas.

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*(Thanks to our favorite Mindbender for unbending my recollection on The Spectre. Only Jerry Siegel was involved in that creation, not Joe Shuster)

covers from Funnyman 1-6 (1948)

What phase is the moon?

NOTE: This post has been edited to conform to the blog's new status. Part has been moved to our Back Room with a link provided at the bottom.

At one point while growing up, we lived in a 'blue' county, so called because it was subject to old Blue Laws. Blue Laws was a term used to refer to attempts to legislate morality, usually by the highly unmoral seeking power or feeling guilty. On Sundays where we lived, the alcohol cabinets in the stores were chained shut, and bars closed. It was illegal to sell alcohol anywhere in the county on Sunday, so you tried to stock up friday or saturday, and hope your friends did, too, so they wouldn't drink you dry before Monday came around.
This was Blue Sunday.

In general, this worked out for most folks with only minor grousing about the situation. But for the hard drinkers, the young partiers who get cut off halfway through the weekend, it was ... well, agonizing - according to them. This led to savagely overdrinking and hard partying on Monday - the kind that leaves you waking up naked and not being able to identify the naked person(s) next to you.
This was Blue Monday.

And so we have a name for our latest feature:

Here we'll take a look at what we'll call 'Blue' comics & art for the sake of the feature.
Sometimes we'll look at various 'adult' comics from around the globe, other times we'll just look at the pretty pictures. Like today.
Here's a news flash - many artists often draw naked things. From learning experiences to expressions of passion to desperate need, the reasons vary widely. Some hide it, some flaunt it. Some do it for pleasure, some for attention, some only for money or to please others. Sometimes, it's the most obvious artists whose work is nearly erotica anyway, other times it's the last artist you might expect. (See our next Blue Monday for a potential example)

For our inaugural episode, let's not focus on any one artist - let's go with a theme. Superman Artists. I'm sure there's lots more out there. It's a new feature on a new blog, so no lengthy research is involved. Just 3x3 pics from 10 Superman Artists, ranging from Joe Shuster to Bruce Timm - the artists who brought us the first Superman, and the modern animated Superman. These are two of the most famous blue art creators among the comics pros - Joe Shuster due to publication of a book not long back calling attention to his fetish art, and Bruce Timm due to the publication of his own collection of paintings and drawings. I'm only using one example from each artist here, and zero context information for this quick review.

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