My system was more successful than Mickey.
Resurrection in progress.
06 March 2019
04 March 2019
Shaking It Off
So, obviously i've been rather down lately while my mind has been off doing it's own thing. Let's brighten things up and shake off some of those shadows to start the week, eh?
How about some old Disney comics? That should cheer things up. So let's go way back to 1930 and enjoy some of those early Mickey Mouse newspaper comics -
Hmm...
Need new plan.
How about some old Disney comics? That should cheer things up. So let's go way back to 1930 and enjoy some of those early Mickey Mouse newspaper comics -
Need new plan.
strips by Floyd Gottfredson (under suggestion & guidance of Walt Disney) for Mickey Mouse dailies (October 8-24 1930)
03 March 2019
Inkie, The Self-Drawn Character
It might be somewhat difficult to grasp in an age of profound corporate and personal narcissism, but once upon a time someone tried to pretend he wasn't the creator. (And it wasn't a politician talking about a disaster or anything like that.)
A couple weeks back we started to look at Inkie, an odd little comic character that interacted with his artists. When the strip started out, the concept was slightly more off the wall - Inkie wrote and drew his own adventures. In fact, he even named himself -
As mentioned several times previously, i enjoy seeing creators inserted into the comics. The editor of Crack Comics at this time was John Beardsley. How much of his own boss went into Al Stahl's editor in the strip...? Hard to say. How self-deprecating was Beardsley? Stahl is portraying himself as talentless and essentially useless, so Beardsley may have gone along with it and allowed himself to be the model for the character. He only worked in comics for a few years at the dawn of the '40s, primarily at Quality Comics, and very little is known about him these days. Certainly not enough known by me to make any sort of educated guess.
Were the other artists based on folks at Quality at the time? Was the janitor based on a real person? How did he feel about that portrayal? Was having everyone completely ignore his presence - turn the page, move along - a social commentary? So many questions for my rambling mind.
We'd best move along to the next issue before i get bogged down in mental morass -
So - Eat That! Ant Man and Atom. You guys might ride arrows and T-spheres, but Inkie rides (and guides) bullets!
As noted in the final caption of the tale above, in the third tale Inkie and Al join forces -
A couple weeks back we started to look at Inkie, an odd little comic character that interacted with his artists. When the strip started out, the concept was slightly more off the wall - Inkie wrote and drew his own adventures. In fact, he even named himself -
As mentioned several times previously, i enjoy seeing creators inserted into the comics. The editor of Crack Comics at this time was John Beardsley. How much of his own boss went into Al Stahl's editor in the strip...? Hard to say. How self-deprecating was Beardsley? Stahl is portraying himself as talentless and essentially useless, so Beardsley may have gone along with it and allowed himself to be the model for the character. He only worked in comics for a few years at the dawn of the '40s, primarily at Quality Comics, and very little is known about him these days. Certainly not enough known by me to make any sort of educated guess.
Were the other artists based on folks at Quality at the time? Was the janitor based on a real person? How did he feel about that portrayal? Was having everyone completely ignore his presence - turn the page, move along - a social commentary? So many questions for my rambling mind.
We'd best move along to the next issue before i get bogged down in mental morass -
So - Eat That! Ant Man and Atom. You guys might ride arrows and T-spheres, but Inkie rides (and guides) bullets!
As noted in the final caption of the tale above, in the third tale Inkie and Al join forces -
page art by Al Stahl (and Inkie) for Crack Comics #s 28-30 (1943)
02 March 2019
Saturday Solutions - Q-Quiz
Here are the answers to yesterday's quiz, coming to us via Q*bert's Quazy Questions:
pages from Q*bert's Quazy Questions (1983)
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