Showing posts with label Moronica. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Moronica. Show all posts

04 March 2020

The Lasting Power Of Stupidity

So...  
Last week i stumbled across Moronica, Miss Nit-Wit Of 1948 (& 1949). I thought she was just an odd little blip on the cultural radar - a flash and gone.

Nope.

As noted, she debuted in 1948


...not to be confused with the other Moronica who first appeared in 1948 in Meet Corliss Archer...


Our Miss Nit-Wit lasted into 1949, as we knew...


...but she continued on into 1950...
 

...1951...
 

...1952...
 

...1953...
 

...1954...
 

I was so wrong about that "little blip". In fact, she even got together with her friends to form their own book -







Maybe this is what the evil clown sees when it looks back and spews make things Great again? (It was spawned right around this time)

page art mostly by Owen Fitzgerald from Starlet O'Hara In Hollywood #s 1, 3, & 4, The Kilroys #s 23-28, 30-32, & 37, Cookie #s 45 & 48, Dizzy Dames #s 1-6 and Al Feldstein for Meet Corliss Archer #1 (1948-1954)

01 March 2020

In The Days Before We Elected Them President

I pulled out some random books to find some comedy for today and bumped into one of those cringe-worthy characters of yesteryear. Who wrote or created the character is unknown, but artwork is from one of the Golden Age great cartoonists, Owen Fitzgerald. (If you don't believe me on that valuation, ask Los Bros)

In her debut appearance (unless she was derived from a Hatlo's They'll Do It Every Time cartoon from 3 years prior), meet ultimate 'Dumb Blonde' - Miss Nit-Wit Of 1948 (and '49), Moronica -


Nope. Not even going to get into all the messages in that comic. Let's just move along to later in that same issue...


Well...  that didn't get much better, did it? At least they took his clothes off instead of hers? 
I do love that dejected bear in the background of the final panel.

Just one more, for now...


So... sad mocking of a tired trope? Or brilliant warning against modern consumerism? (Don't strain - it can be both)

I thought that Moronica was just an odd little character that appeared as a back up in a few issues of Starlet O'Hara In Hollywood.

I appear to have been mistaken...

(Wait - wasn't she blonde?)

page art by Owen Fitzgerald and Milt Gross from Starlet O'Hara In Hollywood #s 1 & 2 and The Kilroys #8 (1948, 1949)