Monday Madness YAK YAK "TV for All!"

Those of you who grew up with a smart phone in your hand...

...will probably not understand a single thing (either in terms of technology or pop culture) in this feature about living in a household with only one screen and a limited selection of programming!

Ironically, cross-genre programming has become something of a staple in our media-dominated world!

Dell gave MAD mainstay Jack Davis his own title, to do with as he pleased.

The series, Yak Yak (subtitled "A Pathology of Humor") only ran two issues, but they were pure Davis, who wrote, penciled, inked, and colored the whole project as well as providing painted covers for both issues!

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Art of Jack Davis

Don da Con and "I Want No Quid Pro Quo"

Insider.com hired a pair of DC/Marvel creatives to explain...

...in graphic storytelling (aka "comic strip") format, the entire Don da Con impeachment mishigas!

Writer Anthony DelCol and illustrator Josh Adams, utilizing quotes, transcripts, and testimony put the entire tale in context from start to finish so simply and effectively, even a Repug Senator could follow it!

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Sh*t My President Says:

Illustrated Tweets of Donald J Trump

Thanks for Joining Us for Black History Month...

...where we presented stories here and on other RetroBlogs starring Black characters...

...stories by Black Creators (some of whom you may not have known were Black)...

...and stories starring Black characters by Black creators!

We hope you've found our presentations both entertaining and educational!
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EC Comics
Race, Shock and Social Protest

Friday Fun FAST WILLIE JACKSON "Jabar in No Way Out"

In the 1970s, there was an Archie-style comic aimed at Black audiences...

...from the publishers of the Golden Legacy series which featured factual stories about Black historical figures!

Though it looks like it, Fast Willie Jackson was not published  by Archie Comics, but by Black-owned publisher Fitzgerald Publications who had previously published the Golden Legacy non-fiction comic series about Black history.

Fast Willie was their entry into the mass-market comics market.

Though not Comics Code-approved, it received newsstand distribution, and sales were climbing for each successive issue.

Unfortunately, it reached break-even only with the seventh (and final) issue, when other matters caused Fitzgerald Publications to cease producing new material for an extended period. When Fitzgerald briefly resumed publishing, Fast Willie was not among the titles.

Written by publisher/editor Bertram Fitzgerald, illustrated by "Gus Lemoine".

Note: There's no record of Gus Lemoine outside of a brief comics career for Archie and Fitzgerald which coincidentally ends with superb Dan DeCarlo mimic Henry Scarpelli leaving his staff position at DC and becoming a full-time staffer at Archie, at which point "Lemoine's" credits disappear.

Most artists in the comics field do other (fine or commercial art) work before and/or after their stint in comics.

There's no trace of Lemoine's work anywhere else.

If anybody can provide a link to his pre/post-comics work or some sort of biography I've missed, I'd be extremely grateful for the info!

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Black Comics
Politics of Race and Representation

Reading Room EERIE "Alien Plague"

With the coronavirus making its' way around the world in record time...

...we thought this never-reprinted tale from Warren's Eerie #31 (1971) was both apropos and ironic!

Obviously, the coronavirus isn't being spread by aliens disguised as paper products...OR IS IT?

Written and illustrated by Billy Graham, who's best-known to mainstream comics fans as the primary artist on the "Panther's Rage" story arc of the 1970s Black Panther strip in Marvel's Jungle Action!

That storyline provided many of the plot elements for the billion-dollar blockbuster Black Panther film!

Graham was part of the Bronze Age (second) wave of comic fanboys-turned-pros which included Jim Starlin, Steve Gerber, Mike Kaluta, Berni Wrightson, Don Newton, Rich Buckler, and George Perez!

He was also one of the large number of Black creatives who entered the industry during the 1970s!

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Epic Collection

Black Panther

Panther's Rage