Showing posts with label Kookie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kookie. Show all posts

Friday, August 8, 2025

Friday Fun KOOKIE "Playmate"

John Stanley & Bill Williams' Short-Lived Strip About 1960s Urban Eccentrics...

...featured not only the 18 to 25 "young adult" crowd, but older, equally-eccentric characters!




John Stanley (script/layouts) and Bill Williams (pencils/inks) did three humor series for Dell in the early 1960s, Kookie, Around the Block with Dunc & Loo (later shortened to just Dunc and Loo) and Thirteen Going on Eighteen.

While the first 9 issues of the last (29-issue) series have been reprinted in a superb collection (see below), neither Kookie (2 issues) nor AtBwD&L/DaL (8 issues) has ever been reprinted...which is a great loss to pop culture as far as I'm concerned!
Note: Though Stanley did the layouts on the stories, the painted covers to Kookie were entirely Bill Williams' work!

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Friday, September 15, 2023

Friday Fun KOOKIE! "Yea Sayers"

The title is a play on the phrase "nay sayers"...
...which denotes someone who complains, criticizes, or objects to something!
Kookie is an aspiring young actress look for her big break.
Her friend, Jose O'Hara, is an aspiring playwright looking for his big break.
In this never-reprinted tale from Dell's Kookie! #1 (1962), scripted by John Stanley and illustrated by Bill Williams, the two encourage each other's "creativity" with almost insane optimism, trying to turn each setback into an advantage!

Friday, November 12, 2021

Friday Fun KOOKIE "Bongo & Bop...Cats in the Attic"

Before Slackers!
Before Hipsters!
Before even Hippies!
There were Beatniks!
Here's a tale about a pair of them that could easily be updated and re-told today!
This never-reprinted story from Dell's Kookie #2 (1962) by writer John Stanley and artist Bill Williams was part of an attempt to produce an on-going series featuring young adults in a (then) contemporary setting.
Bongo and Bop were the slackers of the ensemble, like Dobie Gillis' Maynard G Krebs amped up to 11!
Sadly the title only lasted two issues...which you'll be seeing here in the weeks to come!
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