Inside Jeff Overturf's Head: Pogo

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Monday, December 17, 2012

"Gopo Gossum!" - Wally Wood - Mad Monday!

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Sunday Funnies June 4, 1955 - part 3 of 4

The Sunday Funnies has a couple of highlights in this section of the Chicago Daily News....real treats.

First up, Walt Kelly's masterful "Pogo". Every panel a gem, every word balloon poetry. This is what "awesome" meant before it applied to pizza, too.

Fred Neher's "Life's Like That". Another multi-single page strip which started to loom on the horizon in the 1950's. A sign of America's shortening attention span and I''m sure also, a way for newspapers to chop up and give more space over to advertising. The beginnings of the comics page shrinking. No offence to Neher, the strip is breezy Sunday morning reading. He did hsi job.

When I was a kid, the comic book racks were still full of humor comic's based on animated characters. And I mean all of 'em. Terrytoons, Looney Tunes, Lantz Tunes, Disney Toons...ALL had their rag newsprint counterparts. I always had a few laying around (though never collected any avidly) but they were always off-putting slightly, The characters didn't look the same of act the same as they did on the screen or TV. I of course now understand that different media call for different ways of story-telling. I have a new respect for them and the artistry that went into them. THAT was comic books, my local newspaper never carried any of the strip variations of this phenomenon, so it's nice to see samples like this.

So much to read, so little time.

Oh...that was a long-winded way of saying..."Here's Bugs Bunny!"

THIS uncredited strip, "Mr. Rumbles" looks pretty interesting. The art is solid, and the concept a new one for newspapers. I'm love to see some more.

Happy Sunday, kiddoes. See ya all for more next week.

Talk to you soon.

Saturday, May 21, 2011

Craig Yoe Comic Strip Sirocco - Unca Jeffy's Toy Box!

Continuing from last weeks peek at the nifty Craig Yoe Studios sirocco figurines of classic comic strip characters that were distibuted by the smart folks at Dark Horse Comics and continuing pimping the new "All Color Sunday Funnies" right here inside my head, here's a look at a few more!

From George Herriman's "Krazy Kat", everyone knows Krazy loves Ignatz Mouse who does NOT love her back, but Offica Pup does. Here he's got his standard "Move along mouse, and stay out of Kelly's Brick Yard look. See 'em every Sunday right here.

"Hully Gee!" Here's he very first newspaper comic strip star ever, Richard Felton Outcault's Mickey Dugan from right outen Hogan's Alley, "The Yellow Kid"!

Everyone what has any sense already knows, my blogger buddy Thomas Haller Buchanan celebrates the wonderfully talented Walt Kelly regularly in his blog "Whirled of Kelly" which covers all of Kelly's work, including the land of Pogo Possum in the Okefenokee Swamp. Here's Pogo's pal, "Albert Alligator"!

The king of fantasy art in the comics, master of design and perspetive, innovator in animation Winsor McCay is represented on my library shelf with "Little Nemo in Slumberland"! You can check out all of his adventures in high-res scans at this h'yar web page "The Comic Strip Library"!

And finally for today's batch. Everyone knows my love for the epic work of Harold Gray and his famous little redhead, "Little Orphan Annie".

More next week.

Talk to you soon.

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Nemo issue 20 - 2 of 2

Here's part 2 of Nemo: the Classic Comics Library #20...

Beginning with more comic strip promotions - back when syndicates cared about their features...some real gems here!

The regular feature "Fantasy in the Comics" this issue spotlights Gustave Verbeek's turn of the century strip, "Terror of the Tiny Tads"...and it's a winner. Once again, Nemo comes through.