03 February 2020

Brief Oddities

We've got an extra post with a smattering of oddities, as mentioned above, and no real theme beyond having accumulated in the blog files. And, y'know... being Odd.

Here's a beautiful and mysterious first page from Omandu -


You may perhaps wonder where the figure absent from the white space in the middle has gone?

He escaped to the cover -


I admire an artist who is wholly committed to the work over the modern obsession for Branding. In fact, the only way to know that this is the cover for The Little Book Of Inner Space #1 is from the indicia box, hand written at the bottom of the first page -


Sadly, this seems almost completely forgotten today. The Grand Comics Database has almost no info, only the front cover.
Every time i put together a list of titles to update in their database, i lose it.
Somebody remind me after a bit and see if i've entered the particulars on this comic.

Elsewhere in Time and California...

What's this crowd waiting for...?


...the chance to party with Mary Fleener
Why me not there?


For a purely odd sidestep in time and space, yet somehow reminiscent of now, here's a one-pager from Look Magazine's second issue, just over 80 years ago...


And buried way down here is the single page comic that started this post going. A simple piece in every way, that works so nicely from the team of Ross Andru and Mike Esposito...


Omandu say bye-bye -


pages from The Little Book Of Inner Space #1, Life Of The Party, Look v.1#2, and Get Lost #3 (1937, 1954, 1972, 1996)

2020 Calendars - Week 06

By popular request (Gordie's a popular kind of guy) we lead off this week with another from Edward Runci, the image that served for the template when putting together this year's calendars...


For this week's Cover Calendar, we've got another Enoch Bolles cover from the Film Fun -



It seems like we're leaning heavy on Enoch so far this year. I'll  try to remember to go a different way next week. But, as long as we're here, we've got the original painting for this cover, too -



This week's Blue Monday Calendar brings us a lovely winter image from Ren Wicks -

Of course, you'll have to step on through to our back room for the full version of this post with the adult content to see it. Here is a direct link to the un-cut post.

As always, the calendars are sized to print 8"x10" at 150dpi, with 1" square spaces for notations.

art by labeled artists, of course (20thC)

02 February 2020

Not Quite SMF

Continuing with yesterday's theme - more Sunday Morning Funnies, kinda sort of. It's not Sunday morning any more*, and they're not quite...

Well, see for yourselves -







Wait a minute! This is supposed to be Sunday Morning Funnies. Shouldn't we have some colour?



Hmm...

I think we can do better than that... 


That's better. 
One more time!
 

Are we all feeling funnified now?

page art by Don Orehek, Bill Elder, and ???
for Zany #s 1 & 3, Nuts #4, and Panic #8 (1954, 1955, 1958, 1959)


*(This post was originally scheduled for 12:03pm. I got tired of waiting)

01 February 2020

SMF It Ain't

I'm in the mood for some Sunday Morning Funnies, but it's only Saturday afternoon. What to do...?

Well, if it's not quite Sunday, we'll do some funnies that are "not quite" to fit right in, starting with a bit of Howie Post's doppelcomix of Al Capp's classic...


...and some 'Chester Gould' from Bill Elder...


...and to complete our typical trio, here's Joe Maneely's riff on Hank Ketchum's strip...


Like Stan said - "We have to end this somewhere..."

page art from Riot #s 3 & 6 and Panic #5 (1954)

Saturday Solutionizing

Okay - i know some folks hate to wait, so here're the answer sheets for the puzzle pages that needed answers from yesterday:




I desperately need caffeine; got pot on to boil for cuppa. Back later today with a 'real' post.