Bears In Space?

Sleep still savagely fragmented, and now breathing getting in on the fun. Or lack of breathing, to be more accurate - bad sinuses; allergic to the planet sort of thing. So brain extra scattered, and it's time for my monthly foraging run down the hill. Not going to do a lot of writing at this point. 

Fortunately, we've already got another tale featuring Eric St. Clair's familiar Bear already prepped and ready to go. Here's No Peace For Bears -

That place sure looks better than Jellystone, doesn't it?

page art from Treasure Chest Of Fun & Fact v10 #s 1-4 (1957)

And End To Frank Talk On Drawing

 We come to the conclusion of the excellent Draw-along With Frank Borth series. If you came in late, here are the previous 1, 2, 3, 4 installments.

Having walked us through the basics, now Frank shows us how to put it together and what to do with it...

This series was collected back in the '60s and released as a stand-alone how-to-draw book, available for only one shiny quarter.
Of course, like the source comics, it was only available to parochial school students who ordered it through the school. (Think of it as something like a Catholic version of the old Scholastic Books program)

BTW - the Enchanted Flivver story to which he refers at the end is The Return Of The Enchanted Flivver (posted in 1, 2 parts)

Bonus!
Now that you know what Frank Borth looks like, you can spot when he uses himself as a character in his comics.

page art by Frank Borth from Treasure Chest Of Fun & Fact v18 #s 19 & 20 (1963)

Early Comics - 1891's Facetious Serpent

EDIT: Being the deranged Alien creature that i am, i did not even notice that the shapes that the snake is taking here are letters, much less see that they formed a word. I in no way meant to disparage Gordie with a slur i didn't perceive.
Any IDIOT involved here is the damn fool who couldn't see the actual joke of the strip. 
Carry on.

This post is actually just a reply to Kid, so it's Very short. But, i figured it was worth making it into a post simply because it's a comic strip from a time before a lot of us think of their having been comic strips - back in January of 1891.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, artist Caran d'Ache brings us The Facetious Serpent -

Now i need cuppa to wake up the rest of the way...

page art by Caran d'Ache from Harper's New Monthly Magazine #488 (1891)

Ayup, Even More Frank Talk On Drawing

Well, huzzah!

I found my good scans instead of the semi-crappy archive scans i'd been using. You may note an upgrade in image quality with this installments of Draw-Along With Frank Borth. If so, and there's an interest, i'll probably go back and upgrade the previous lesson pics.

We finally get to #7 - Animals! - the cover we saw when we started this series. This morning is part 4 of 5, and if you missed 'em and are too lazy to go hunting (like most of us) here are links to parts 2 and 3, too.

Now, let's listen to Frank instead of my ramblings -

For the final lessons tomorrow morning, Borth gets into practical territory with How To Make A Picture Out Of A Drawing and Using Art for more than just decorating your school notebook.

I wound up working through the night and just barely getting this into the queue in time. So no telling if i'll be here with a post this afternoon or not.

Enjoy the suspense!

page art by Frank Borth from Treasure Chest Of Fun & Fact v18 #s 17 & 18 (1963)

Swimming Bear, Not Bare

(EDIT: The title makes a tad more sense now)

Yes, we're back with The Bear from Eric St. Clair and Paul Eismann today, along with a side of silliness. We've previously seen the Bear seek Justice and a Timid existence in the zoo. Those tales came to us from the mid-to-late '60s, but the Bear himself goes back a fair bit further. Today's tale, The Pearl Divers, comes from 1955 - but he was already a star before this point. And he's got one of the oddest starts in comics, really. 

But, we'll come back to that. 
For now, let's read Comics!

Part two of the tale took the cover -

Good job, Boomer!

Maybe tomorrow we can see your odd origins.

page art by Paul Eismann from Treasure Chest Of Fun & Fact v10 #s 13-15 (1955)