San Diego Comic-Con Countdown part 3!

Here's the next 6 days of my Facebook page Comic-Con countdown up to and including today's.

The great Will Eisner and "The Spirit".

The Archie Comics Gang!

Too many things to do, so few Jeffy's.

Grooming, perhaps with comic geek romance in mind.

Star-Spangled heroes for the 4th of July.  There were around 40 or so star-spangled characters to come out of the WWII years.  I chose 4 to hang with yesterday.

The original Justice League of America-ers...Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Aquaman and J'onn J'onzz - The Manhunter from Mars.  Most of whom are jealous of the Avengers movie.

7 more days.  7 more sleeps.  My head's gonna bust!  This day next week will be "travel day" and first day at the zoo they call "Comic-Con"..I'll be sure to report all the fun back at ya!

Talk to you soon.

Independence Day!

Happy Independence Day everone.  Be Safe.  Be Happy.  Be Free.

Talk to you soon.

"Talking Heads Inside Jeff Overturf's Head!"

Our continuing story of Jeffy up inside his own head. 

A "Synaptic Responder" explains the one-track-human mind.

And in web-comics, shouldn't the pages by landscape and not portrait?

Something familiar and inviting about the portrait format though.

Thoughts?  I'm thinking about boobies.

Talk  to you soon.

"Restaurant!" - Bill Elder - Mad Monday!

Bill Elder tips double duty in issue 15 of Mad THE COMIC BOOK with this classic.  Harvey Kurtzman knew what he was doing in partnering up with Mister Elder.  "Chicken Fat" in full swing here, kiddoes....dig in!

Talk to you soon!

Sunday Funnies - June 4, 1955 - part 4 of 4

Here we are at the end of the Saturday/Sunday color supplement of the Chicago Daily News from June 4, 1955.  There are a few more of these 4 color treasures that I picked up of of ebay a few years ago coming up, so slate your next few Sunday's clear!

First up is "Long Sam", ANOTHER strip written by Al Capp!  Between "Li'l Abner", "Abbie and Slatts" and now this one, it's clear where Johnny Hart and Mort Walker got their ideas to take all the money for themselves.  Joe Martin takes the prize with "Mr. Boffo", "Willie and Ethel", "Cats with Hands" and whatever else he's working on...but Joe can somehow keep up.

A couple of those "filler" features that seemed to proliferate so much in the 1950's and 60's.  Fun to have so much that just seemed "extra" in those days.

"Judge Parker"...that's all I have to say about that.  It was there with "Mary Worth" and "Rex Morgan, MD"

for decades and I'm still not sure why.  But there it was.

And them the funnies hit rock bottom.

Commerce is a necessity, we learn to live with.  A shame it takes the gild off of the lilly so fully though.

Talk to you soon.