Showing posts with label Art Gates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art Gates. Show all posts

Friday, August 25, 2023

Friday Fun HILLBILLY COMICS "Mountain Music"

As Oliver Anthony ("Rich Men North of Richmond") is discovering...
...the Trumpettes who are pretending to enjoy country music because they belive it embodies their "ideals" (such as they are) really have no idea about what they're listening to!

Written and illustrated by Art Gates, this tale from Charlton's Hillbilly Comics #1 (1955) was part of a brief trend in comic books during the Li'l Abner series' greatest popularity in the mid-1950s!

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Friday, June 16, 2023

Friday Fun CRAZY, MAN, CRAZY! "Hollywood Version"

Some complain that movies and TV shows take too many liberties when adapting classic literature...
...and to that we say...DAMN STRAIGHT!
This never-reprinted feature from Charlton's short-lived MAD Magazine clone Crazy Man, Crazy! V2N1 (1955) shows they were already doing it almost 70 years ago!
You think artist Art Gates and the unknown scripter (possibly editor Al Fago) were as perturbed about the "creative re-imaging"/mangling of classics back then as we are today?

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Monday, October 31, 2022

Monday Madness FORBIDDEN WORLDS "Vampire Cat!"

It's Halloween, boyfiends and ghoulfriends...
...and you're invited to an absolutely killer Halloween costume party in this tale from ACG's Forbidden Worlds #15 (1953)!
So, why is it so "horrible" to be trapped in a harmless kitty?
We'll never know the answer!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Monday, September 25, 2017

Trump Reading Room aka the OutHouse HILLBILLY COMICS "Saturday Night at Shootin' Creek"

What do Deplorables do on weekends?
...perhaps what this never-reprinted tale from Charlton's Hillbilly Comics #4 (1956) extrapolates!
Illustrated, and probably written by Art Gates, this text story about the MacSleezys (whom we've presented HERE, and HERE) is typical hillbilly humor, playing up their illiteracy and violent tendencies...aspects the Deplorables take pride in!
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Monday, March 6, 2017

Trump Reading Room aka the OutHouse HILLBILLY COMICS "Gumbo Galahad Meets Handsome Bill and the Tiger"

Just as every rational, intelligent person knows pro wrestling is fake...
...irrational, unintelligent sorts like Don (the Con) Trump's detestables believe it, like Jabba the Trump himself, is legitimate!
Written and illustrated by Charlton mainstay Art Gates, this story from Charlton's Hillbilly Comics #3 (1956) was clearly-based on Al Capp's then-immensely popular Li'l Abner newspaper strip which had been running as a musical on Broadway and was in preparation as a feature film!
In addition, the tale references pro wrestling, which had experienced a major upswing in popularity due to it's becoming a television mainstay!
Astoundingly, to this day, there are those who believe pro wrestling and the antics sourrounding it (which, BTW, Don the Con participated in) isn't unscripted/plotted/planned/choreographed.
And, apparently, most of them are Jabba the Trump's delporables...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Trump Reading Room HILLBILLY COMICS "MacSleezys: New York AND Bust"

...heck, I'll let the writer present a synopsis of the tale for me...
Written and illustrated by Art Gates, this tale from Charlton's Hillbilly Comics #2 (1955) was part of a brief trend in comic books during the Li'l Abner series' greatest popularity in the mid-1950s!
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Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Trump Reading Room HILLBILLY COMICS "MacSleezys (Don't Trust Them)"

Let's look in on Don the Con's "Deplorables"...
...with a typical rural family of typical intelligence and morals!
Written and illustrated by Art Gates, this tale from Charlton's Hillbilly Comics #1 (1955) was part of a brief trend in comic books during the Li'l Abner series' greatest popularity in the mid-1950s!
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