Here's a half dozen tales from ...
Russia..
...China...
...South India...
...Romania...
...Arabia...
...and Greece...
pages from Tinkle #s 2, 11, 21, 256, & 503 (1981-2004)
12 June 2018
Tinkle Twinkles
I mentioned previously that one of the things that first attracted me to comics from India was Tinkle's collections of Folk Tales; and not just from India - tales from around the globe. For a quick introduction, let's take a look at some of those today.
Here's a half dozen tales from ...
Russia..
...China...
...South India...
...Romania...
...Arabia...
...and Greece...
Here's a half dozen tales from ...
Russia..
...China...
...South India...
...Romania...
...Arabia...
...and Greece...
11 June 2018
Blue Monday Calendar 2018 Week 24
Sailor Beware is this week's lovely work by Gil Elvgren from 1953
Sailor Beware by Gil Elvgren (1953)
10 June 2018
Sunday Double-Down Triple-Feature Matinee
Welcome back to our weekend matinee.
We continue yesterday's matinee features, but we're doubling the amount - two chapters/episodes for each.
First up, our serial, of course - Oskar Lebeck and Alden McWilliams' classic newspaper strip - Twin Earths.
Previously on Twin Earths: Vana, a defector from Terra, the advanced human populated world opposite the sun from Earth, is now a target of her former government. Allied with the FBI, she volunteers to bait a trap for the Terran agents. While the trap is set, she tells FBI agent Garry Verth some of her world's history, including the failure of their space program using technology similar to Earth's rocket science...
Yesterday in Danny Dreams, we left Danny trapped in his world of prehistoric dreams.
Today, parts 2 & 3, concluding the tale. Mort Meskin steps in for pencils on the first strip, with Joe Kubert returning for the conclusion. Inks by both on both, it seems -
Our third feature, Mitzi Of The Movies from the loving brush of Matt Baker, is definitely embracing the Odd today, at least in the second half. I commented yesterday that Mitzi "...only appeared in those four stories ... sort of."
Today, the explanation for that remark.
First, Mitzi's fourth and final story in the terminating issue of Movie Comics -
Five years later, Mitzi pulled a Schrödinger's Return - simultaneously both there and not there.
In Cowboy Romance #10, they used Matt Baker's artwork for Mitzi In Holllywood, but Tiger Lily'd* all new dialogue to create a different story -
Y'know - even if i didn't already prefer the original story, that "Don't - Neigh! Neigh!" pun exclamation would have won me over for the voting.
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*(What's Up,... not the Person, Town or Flower)
We continue yesterday's matinee features, but we're doubling the amount - two chapters/episodes for each.
First up, our serial, of course - Oskar Lebeck and Alden McWilliams' classic newspaper strip - Twin Earths.
Previously on Twin Earths: Vana, a defector from Terra, the advanced human populated world opposite the sun from Earth, is now a target of her former government. Allied with the FBI, she volunteers to bait a trap for the Terran agents. While the trap is set, she tells FBI agent Garry Verth some of her world's history, including the failure of their space program using technology similar to Earth's rocket science...
Twin Earths - Chapter 5:
Twin Earths - Chapter 6:
Yesterday in Danny Dreams, we left Danny trapped in his world of prehistoric dreams.
Today, parts 2 & 3, concluding the tale. Mort Meskin steps in for pencils on the first strip, with Joe Kubert returning for the conclusion. Inks by both on both, it seems -
Our third feature, Mitzi Of The Movies from the loving brush of Matt Baker, is definitely embracing the Odd today, at least in the second half. I commented yesterday that Mitzi "...only appeared in those four stories ... sort of."
Today, the explanation for that remark.
First, Mitzi's fourth and final story in the terminating issue of Movie Comics -
Five years later, Mitzi pulled a Schrödinger's Return - simultaneously both there and not there.
In Cowboy Romance #10, they used Matt Baker's artwork for Mitzi In Holllywood, but Tiger Lily'd* all new dialogue to create a different story -
Y'know - even if i didn't already prefer the original story, that "Don't - Neigh! Neigh!" pun exclamation would have won me over for the voting.
page art from Twin Earths, Tor #s 4 & 5, Movie Comics #4, and Cowgirl Romances #10 (1947, 1952, 1954)
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*(What's Up,... not the Person, Town or Flower)
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