14 June 2019

Boy! That Elephant Sure Is BAD!

So...
I was planning an Ellis Chambers post for The 1940s Funny Animalphabet featuring his work in Buster Bunny. Then i noticed a slight technical problem. Though the title debuted in the late 1940s, the stories didn't appear until 1950-52.

Oops. I guess they'll have to wait a spell.

Holly didn't do a whole lot for the book - only eight stories ranging from one to eight pages. We ran his Tommy Turtle tale from Buster Bunny #3 previously. Here are the rest of his signed stories from Buster Bunny, with one exception. The only copy i've ever found of #13 was a scan, and that was destroyed by a clumsy attempt to 'restore' it. That Chester Cat tale will have to wait until either i find a paper copy or have the hours and patience to try to repair the damage. Today we've got Buster & Bill Bunny, Cuffy, Dizzy Duck and Goofy Gander.

Ellis' first and longest tale for Buster Bunny comics appeared in #4 -







On a side note, i don't know what the frell is wrong with the way Blogger is displaying the standard text for the post. It should be larger and easier to read. Maybe it is on your system. For reference, this text is "normal" sized. The credits note below is "smallest" size. This should display almost twice the size of the text below, but on my system they're pretty much the same size.
But maybe it's my settings...

page art by Ellis Holly Chambers from Buster Bunny #s 4, 5, 7, 9 & 10 (1950, 1951)

13 June 2019

Is It Sooperman? NAW!

Nearly a full decade before Krypto came along in Adventure Comics, we got Superdog in Zoo Funnies. For extra fun & oddness, the strip combined some old faves from around these parts - take one part from characters like Koppy "Supersnipe" McFadd and "Comics" McCormick, who essentially receive their 'powers' from comic books, and mix them with the semi-insane stylings of Ellis Chambers for this short little 6 page oddity from 1946...


Do you think he was trying to get kids to bang their heads against trees?

Alas - there were no further adventures of Superdog, nor have i found any other references to "the Spirit Of Comic Book Super Animals". But, i'm looking...

(And, yes - further posts to follow. I'll talk about down time, but first get things up and running again)

page art by Ellis Holly Chambers for Zoo Funnies #5 (1946)

12 March 2019

The Monkees Meet The Beezles

In case you wandered in due to a misundertaking* about the title of this post, we already looked at when The Monkees met The Beatles.

Back in the days before ancient mariners returning from the far east gave out Gremlins, they tried Beezles. And Peter, of course, brought one home...


Perhaps not surprisingly, Beezles were not the only thing Peter brought home...


And so it went...

page art by Jose Delbo for The Monkees #s 14 & 16 (1968)

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*(Misundertaking/misundertake: to mistake based upon a misunderstanding.)