Showing posts with label Lewis Carroll. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lewis Carroll. Show all posts

Monday, July 8, 2019

Monday Madness ALICE "Super-Dooper Special"

We last saw the Tweedle Twins in their own strip...
...but this time around, they're guest-starring in Alice's feature!
Is Alice imagining she encountered the Tweedle Twins in this never-reprinted tale from Ziff-Davis' Alice #11 (1951)?
Since the duo had their own adventure in the previous issue without her (as shown HERE), I'd say that theory is blown away!
It's more likely she has an innate ability to travel to the parallel dimension where they, and slightly-wonky versions of other imaginary characters, including (but not limited to) Lewis Carroll's Wonderland characters, exist!
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Monday, February 11, 2019

Monday Madness ALICE "Flying Saucers"

I always wondered what happens when someone takes the concept of "flying saucers" literally...
...as the amazing Dave Berg did in this cover-featured tale from Ziff-Davis' Alice #11 (1953)!
Not quite the sort of "flying saucers" we usually present, eh?
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Monday, December 3, 2018

Monday Madness ALICE "...in Bugville"

We end our re-presentation Ziff-Davis' Alice #10 (1951) with another non-Carroll tale...
...this time involving loveable vermin!
Yeah, you read that correctly...
Dave Berg demonstrates the wonderfully-weird imagination he would so delightfully plumb as one of MAD Magazine's premiere creators for decades!
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Monday, November 26, 2018

Monday Madness ALICE "Tweedle Twins in Horrible Groark"

...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!
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Monday, November 19, 2018

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!
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Monday, November 12, 2018

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)!
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Monday, November 5, 2018

Monday Madness ALICE "Lost Rag Doll"

...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!
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