Star Gazing With Feg

Feg Murray was quite the interesting fellow. A skilled portrait artist, he gained national fame with his newspaper strip Seein' Stars - essentially a Hollywood trivia magazine in comic strip format. It was insanely popular for many years, and like many popular strips it was reprinted in comic book form.

But, before that, Feg was a medal winning Olympic Athlete (1920 Olympics). Not exactly your usual desk-bound artist. Let's cube a three and check out some of those old strips. How many big stars do you still recognize eight decades later?

Depending on how you count, that's about half of the Seein' Stars strips we have sitting here. (The count gets confused because it switched to a 2-page spread format) The other half will be moseying along directly...

page art by Feg Murray from various issues of Ace Comics between #s 13-49 (1937-1941)

Cockeyed Wondering - Part The Second

Let's do some Sunday Morning Funnies continuing from yesterday. Oh, sure - we might have a PM post time, but i've been up for less than an hour, so it's still Sunday Morning for me.

And i'm still fairly groggy - first cuppa didn't do it at all. So let's keep it simple. Here's the next three adventures of Super Duck from his time in Jolly Jingles before getting his own title.

Things changed quite a bit when the Cockeyed Wonder graduated to his own title. We'll take a look at that soon, but i suspect we'll meander along the way.

page art by Dave Higgins from Jolly Jingles #s 13-15 (1944)