Showing posts with label Friday Holiday Fun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Friday Holiday Fun. Show all posts

Friday, March 17, 2023

Friday Holiday Fun VAMPIRELLA "Jackie and the Leprechaun King"

For St Patrick's Day, here's an offbeat tale about leprechauns...
...as rendered in an extremely non-traditional way by comics legend Esteban Maroto!
Scripted by Bill DuBay, this somewhat more "heroic fantasy" approach to the legend of leprechauns appeared in Warren's Vampirella #53 (1976) when elves and related creatures were experiencing a revival in popularity due to the 20th Anniversary of the official American publication JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy.
(It's a long story, and I'll tell it in a future post...)
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to start prepping Shepherd's Pie (with lamb marinated in Guinness) for dinner...

Friday, December 23, 2022

Friday Holiday...FUN? "Twas the Night Before Christmas"

Long before he was famous...

...a certain now-legendary writer-artist was just another aspiring young comics creator presenting work in fanzines to show people what he could do!
Before The Dark Knight Returns!
Before 300!
Before Sin City!
Here's Frank Miller murdering Santa Claus!
A never-reprinted tale from the incredibly-HTF fanzine APAFive #39 (1974)!
A sign of things to come?
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Friday, December 16, 2022

Friday Holiday Fun COOKIE "Do Your Christmas Shopping Early"

How do you make some extra cash for Christmas presents?
If you're a comic book "typical American" teenager named "Cookie", it's usually the hard way...
This teen humor strip from Cookie #10 (1947) was written and illustrated by Dan Gordon, who had been a writer-animator-director for the Fleischer Studios (Superman, Popeye), then went into comics, finally returning to animation at Hanna-Barbera where he co-created (among others) The Flintstones!
Note: the only surviving ongoing teen humor line at Archie Comics has a huge number of Christmas-themed stories featuring Archie and Betty & Veronica!
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Friday, December 2, 2022

Friday, November 18, 2022

Friday Fun TEENAGERS INGENUE "Suzie's Theory of Relative(ity)"

From 61 years ago...
...a look at how teenagers allegedly perceived Yuletide family revelry, from Dell's Teen Agers Ingenue (December, 1961), illustrated by Susan Perl.
And yes, this was a real magazine targeted towards teens!
We'll be showing your more examples from it during the Christmas season!

Friday, April 15, 2022

Friday Holiday Fun EASTER WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Inside an Easter Egg"

Sometimes Walt (Pogo) Kelly did single page shorts...
...sometimes he combined several unrelated short pieces into a theme, like what you might see inside an Easter Egg!
...as this never-reprinted piece from Dell's Four Color Comics: Easter with Mother Goose #103 (1946) demonstrates!
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Friday, March 25, 2022

Friday Holiday Fun EASTER WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Goldilocks and the Baby Bear's Basket"

Here's a classic fairy tale everybody knows...
...adapted for the Easter season by Walt (Pogo) Kelly!
A never-reprinted tale from Dell's Four Color Comics: Easter with Mother Goose #140 (1947) demonstrates how Walt Kelly could take even a tale you didn't think would work in this context and make it seasonally-appropriate!
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Friday, March 18, 2022

Friday Holiday Fun EASTER WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Humpty Dumpty"

An Easter-themed combination of a pair of classic nursery rhymes...
... courtesy of legendary writer/artist Walt (Pogo) Kelly...who really knew how to freshen up an old concept!

This never-reprinted short from Dell's Four Color Comics: Easter with Mother Goose (1948) expands on the nursery rhyme with a new adventure of the accident-prone ovum!Walt Kelly also used Humpty in other Mother Goose comic stories.
Oddly, the cover, also by Walt Kelly, features a radically-different version of Humpty...

Weird, eh?

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