What Do You Call A Group Of Artists?

As noted in the subject of today's post - What do you call a group of Artists?

Since Crows already own 'Murder' i think we're going to go with a Calendar of Artists.

And here are Nine more whom we'll be seeing on next year's calendars -

Henry Clive

Ernest Chiriaka

Peter Driben

Earl MacPherson

Robert Maguire

Al Moore

Earl Moran

Zoë Mozert 

Knute O. Munson

As noted yesterday, the calendars are still being compiled so the time is good to express your preferences.

art by indicated artists

2020 Vision

As many of you know, 2019 was an epic failure for calendars around here. I've got an eye towards the new year coming up and i'm making plans (and actual pages) to carry on in the tradition of the 2018 Gil Elvgren calendar. And a bit more, too.

That means a weekly calendar format, but i'll be offering a few choices. How many options is still uncertain. At least 3, possibly more. Currently planned are two classic pin-up art calendars - one "Good Girl" and one "Bad Girl." By that, i mean that there will be one nice calendar here, and another in the 'back room' where the girls take their clothes off.

Obviously, it would be cruel to make any single artist follow after Gil Elvgren, so the 2020 calendars will all feature several artists for a variety of works.

The third option currently in the works uses old magazine covers with paintings from a lot of great old artists.

And now that we're speaking of those artists, let's take a look at some of those that we'll be featuring. Don't worry - we won't be using any of the artwork that's scheduled for the calendars.

With 52 weeks and at least 3 - perhaps as many as 6 - calendars, that's going to be a fair number of artists. So we'll just look at 9 of them today to get things started.


Rolf Armstrong

Earle Bergey

Enoch Bolles

Mabel Rollins Harris

Harry Lemon Parkhurst (among other HLs)

Konstantin Razumov

Edward Runci

Arthur Sarnoff

Hugh Joseph Ward

I'll run another batch fairly soon. More than just to give a peek a whose work we'll be seeing, this also provides the opportunity for you to influence how prominently some artists are featured. You may also suggest other artists while i'm still in the gathering and compiling stage. You might even suggest artists already in the pile. That's okay, it just means i'm choosing well.

art by the folks listed above

Spawn Of Super Dog?

We've seen Ellis Chambers' one-shot Super Dog previously. What happened to him after his single appearance is unknown - but we can make a guess. Eight years later, Super Pup arrived on the scene -

Yes, it says #4, but, you know - Comics! That's actually his first issue. He only had two, but i've never seen #5. We don't know who created, wrote, or drew Super Pup. We only know that Frank Carin drew his first cover, and perhaps the second as well.

Super Pup had only three stories total. Two of those were in his first issue, so we've got both of them here today. I believe i've mentioned that Mole Men are a favorite topic for government fear campaigns in many of my worlds. I may have run a couple Mole Men awareness posters.

Super Pup was already on the job 65 years ago -

Okay.
Maybe they were perhaps more likely referencing the George Reeves movie. So let's move right along.

Super Pup gets around in that first issue. From fighting underground menaces we leap into space to chase Uranium Smugglers -
 

See? Cosmo Cat wasn't the only Funny Animal superhero killing off his villains.

Oddly enough, we came to Super Pup looking for the other side of the Cat. 
In theory, we'll get there soon...

page art from Super Pup #4 (1954)