Jack Rabbit & Lockjaw The Not-Dog

Sleep continues to grow more erratic, leaving me less and less functional between slumber sessions - what there is of them. But finally grabbed enough Zs to make words, so let's pretend this is Sunday Morning Funnies - even if the sun is setting in these parts.

A few years back, during the King Kirby 100, we got a gander at some of Jack Kirby's Funny Animal comics. Lockjaw The Alligator and Earl The Rich Rabbit ran in Punch & Judy Comics back in 1947. I kind of thought i'd ran them all, but apparently not. So here's another trio of tales from The King in a different style -

BTW - it's worth noting that Earl The Rich Rabbit debuted a year before Scrooge McDuck, so there's no copyrabbiting happening here...
 

Jack could have had a very different career path, no?

Now to go see if maybe caffeine and food will help...

page art by Jack Kirby from Punch & Judy Comics v.2 #s 11 & 12, v.3 #1 (1947)

Not Quite SMF

Continuing with yesterday's theme - more Sunday Morning Funnies, kinda sort of. It's not Sunday morning any more*, and they're not quite...

Well, see for yourselves -

Wait a minute! This is supposed to be Sunday Morning Funnies. Shouldn't we have some colour?

Hmm...

I think we can do better than that... 

That's better. 
One more time!
 

Are we all feeling funnified now?

page art by Don Orehek, Bill Elder, and ???

for Zany #s 1 & 3, Nuts #4, and Panic #8 (1954, 1955, 1958, 1959)

*(This post was originally scheduled for 12:03pm. I got tired of waiting)

Day After Funnies

So, yeah - I missed Sunday again. Pretty much missed the entire weekend, and i wasn't even off doing my Naruto imitation or anything. Just missed it. (When everyday is the weekend, it's hard to notice the real one sometimes. Of course, that doesn't explain why i've been missing days, so let's move along...)

Anyway, here we are once again with Monday Sunday Morning Funnies featuring our old fave, Ellis Chambers. Our first two comics are from Two-Bit The Wacky Woodpecker. These were some of the last strips published from Chambers that weren't reprints from early books. As are all of today's tales.

The first story was drawn at an odd aspect ratio which required a spot illo to fill the space on a typical comicbook page. This is the drawing used:

It appeared at the bottom of each page of the tale. I've omitted it here, since we're presenting the stories and not the comics, to allow a slightly larger display size in the page code:

The second tale in the book was more typically formatted -

Two-Bit ran for only 3 issues, but these are the only two stories signed by E.C. that appeared in the book.

Meanwhile, other Frisky Animals were running around. This one is unsigned, but believed to be Chambers' work, and he has done other Senor Tamale stories, lending further credibility to the assumption.

Since we're not completely certain that the above tale is indeed from Ellis Chambers, here's one more to make sure we have 3 today. Marmaduke Mouse and King Louie from Marmaduke's own title -

Hmm...
I think i see and Marmaduke & King Louie and Egbert & The Count post coming up the street...

page art by Ellis Chambers from Two-Bit The Wacky Woodpecker #1, Frisky Animals #50, and Marmaduke Mouse #24 (1951, 1952)