Monday Madness ALICE "Tweedle Twins in Horrible Groark"

As we mentioned last week...

...Tweedledee and Tweedledum made a solo appearance during the Alice comic's brief run!

Considering the concept of the comic is that we're uncertain if Alice is actually encountering the characters or they're all figments of her Lewis Carroll-obsessed imagination, I'd say the "figments of her imagination" theory is pretty much blown!

Please Support Atomic Kommie Comics!

Visit Amazon and Order...

Alice in ComicLand

Featuring various comics incarnations of the Lewis Carroll character!

Monday Madness ALICE "Topsy Turvy"

Alice shared her book with one other feature, Tweedledum and Tweedledee...

...featuring characters made famous by Lewis Carroll, but actually the subjects of a poem by John Byrom (not "Byron") a century earlier!

Besides this one-pager with Alice, written and drawn by Dave Berg, they appear in their own strip in this issue (#10) of Ziff-Davis' Alice! and guest-star with her in the next one!

Please Support Atomic Kommie Comics!

Visit Amazon and Order...

Alice in ComicLand

Featuring various comics incarnations of the Lewis Carroll character!

Monday Madness ALICE "Rock-Candy Mountain"

Most of the Alice stories involved non-Lewis Carroll concepts...

...including this one featuring a rather Willy Wonka-esque character!

Is Alice a psychotic who can't tell reality from fantasy, or does she just have a wild imagination?

Only creator/writer/artist Dave Berg knew the answer to this never-reprinted tale from Ziff-Davis' Alice #10 (1951), and he ain't talking (because he passed away over 15 years ago)!

Please Support Atomic Kommie Comics!

Visit Amazon and Order...

Dave Berg

Five Decades of "The Lighter Side of..."

Monday Madness ALICE "Lost Rag Doll"

When Walt Disney's animated Alice in Wonderland debuted in 1951...

...several comics publishers tried to take advantgage of the source book being in public domain by doing their own versions!
(Note that the Allen Anderson cover has Alice in a blue dress, like the animated character, but the stories show her wearing red!)

Writer/artist Dave Berg, who created this never-reprinted tale from Ziff-Davis' Alice #10 (1951), later achieved his greatest and longest-lasting success as the auteur behind MAD Magazine's "The Lighter Side of..." feature where his cranky self-portrait, Roger Kaputnik often appeared!

Note: Alice #10 was actually the first issue of the series, but there's no indication of a Ziff-Davis book that ended with #9 and was then retitled "Alice"...madness indeed!

Please Support Atomic Kommie Comics!

Visit Amazon and Order...

Dave Berg

Five Decades of "The Lighter Side of..."