Me & Henry

So... yeah. I prepped plenty of images, but when stringing words together i'm feeling like Hopeless Henry. Y'know - from Howie Post?

Working on it...

page art by Howie Post from Gold Medal Comics (nn) (1945)

Trio De Rio

Hola!
Mi mente todavía está atrapada en espacios oscuros. En lugar de avanzar, retrocedamos justo antes del tiempo de inactividad más reciente.

We were talking about Lily Renée, and i promised more of her work on Senorita Rio -

English and i aren't getting along well at the moment. So, less talk, more look. Last time i showed the splash from this story, and left you waiting. Here's the tale that follows -

Here are two more tales, including the only cover Lily did for the series -

Okay. Got a death cage match scheduled with my brain for later today. Hopefully we'll see better results tomorrow...

page art by Lily Renée for Fight Comics #s 36, 38, 44 & 47 (1945, 1946)

Hero Of The Dark Days

I'm still dragging and feeling a mite down and dark. So let's do something light and bouncy - Bouncy Bunny. He's good in Dark Days.

This story originally ran in Animated Comics (no number) in 1946. However, i wasn't paying attention while working, and this comes from the 1957 reprint in Full Of Fun Comics. A minor oops.
For either printing, we have no indication of who wrote or drew the strip -

Now we can all go back to bed.

page art by unknown for Full Of Fun Comics #1 (1957)

Drawing Inkie

I've mentioned in the past my fondness for seeing artists putting themselves into the comics. There's one old character who made that gimmick a staple of the series - Inkie.

Let's take a look at a couple of his stories - one from Milt Stein and one from Jack Cole. Both names should be familiar to many readers. Jack Cole, of course, created Plastic Man - among his many works over the years. Milt Stein is perhaps more familiar to visitors of The 1940s Funny Animalphabet for his work on titles like Supermouse, though general audiences may know him better from his animation work - most prominently his work with Terrytoons.

Here they're working with someone else's creation (we'll get to that) and, as you'll see, the artist is by design a part of the strip. Here's Jack Cole's tale from #34 of Crack Comics -

Well - that could have been gruesome. Good thing Judge Doom hadn't introduced Dip yet, eh? But getting into trouble was one of Inkie's talents as we can see in Milt Stein's story from the following issue -

Inkie was indeed an odd little character. Even more-so in the beginning. The original conceit was that he wrote and drew his own tales. We'll get to that, and to his creator, next time.

page art by Jack Cole and Milt Stein for Crack Comics #s 34 & 35 (1944)