It's been quite a while since we've had our
Sunday Morning Funnies feature, so let's go with a fair sized batch today - all by one of our favorites around these parts,
Ellis Holly Chambers.
Given that
The 1940s Funny Animalphabet is off on its own now, we'll avoid his '40s funny animal works today. We'll look instead at work from the '50s and strips starring human rather than animal characters.
Let's start with one i mentioned very recently while talking about
Wonderland Comics. Here's
The Boy Pirate -
When speculating upon what might have happened to Ellis Chambers, i sometimes wonder if the drug use sometimes caused problems with his editors, possibly leading to hiring him less and less over time. While they seemed to like his work, the same might not necessarily be said for him. The tale above stands mute witness to this possibility. Twice more it ran in the same title, once the following year and again three years later. In both cases, his signature had been removed from the lower right corner of the title panel...
...and extra shame given the more interesting colour schemes used in the reprints.
Bonus Ellis Oddness:
I don't often post memes/image-macros here, but we've got a worthy exception here today. However, it will only fully make sense to those who are familiar with
Howie Post's recollections of Ellis Chambers.
(See Comic Book Artist #5 or this post for details.)
As often as i've seen this one out there, i don't think i've seen it better used. Certainly not for our purposes.
Thanks to
Nick for sending his creation my way!
page art by Ellis Chambers for Wonderland Comics #8, Buster Bunny # 3, Sands Of The South Pacific #1, and Marmaduke Mouse #s 23, 33 & 56 (1946-7, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955)
image macro by Nick (2018)
