Sunday Funnies - Library of Congress - 2 of 3

Happy Sunday Funnies, kiddoes!  Week 2 of 3 of The Library of Congress' celebration of 100 years of the American Newspaper comic strip back in 1995.

This week taking a look at "Cartoon Stereotypes" (Vic Forsythe, Mort Walker), "Love Story" (William Overgard, Allen Saunders), "Adventures in Time and Space" (Milton Caniff, Burne Hogarth, Alex Raymond), "Dream Worlds" (George Herriman, Winsor McCay, Lyonel Feininger), "Home Front" (Bud Fisher) and "Politics as Usual" (Gary Trudeau, Jules Feiffer, Harold Gray).

This really gives a sense of the overall scope of subjects the Sunday funnies conquered in it's best moments of creativity.

Dig in! 

Talk to you soon.

Sunday Funnies - A Retrospective, 4 of 5

Well!  If last week's tramp into pubescence didn't blow your mind, this weeks full-flex-their-wings-and-see-what-these-teenagers-can-do sampling from Richard Marshall and Bill Blackbeard's glorious "The Sunday Funnies" from 1978 WILL!

This week we look at the comics greats from the 1930's.  That grand era when no one had anything thanks to the Great Depression, and yet only great things ever happened.

We get to glimpse some beautiful pages (yes, comic strips used to take up whole pages) by Alex Raymond ("Jungle Jim", "Flash Gordon"), George Herriman ("Krazy Kat"), Frank King ("Gasoline Alley"), Fontaine Fox ("Toonerville Folks"), Chic Young ("Blondie"), Roy Crane ("Captain Easy"), Phil Nowlan/Dick Caulkins ("Buck Rogers"), E.C. Segar "("Sappo", "Thimble Theatre") and Frank Godwin ("Connie").

All's I can say is Zowie!

Get a double bowl of cereal today kids...yer gonna need it.

Next Sunday:  The Fabulous Forties!

Talk to you soon.

Secret Agent X-9 - King Comic Heroes part 4

Ah, the Alex Raymond trilogy...well sort of. Al Williamson's continuation of this strip may have been even more important. Al and of course Dashiell Hammett.

Read on, kiddoes!

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Jungle Jim - King Comic Heroes part 3

More with Pioneer Book's "King Comic Heroes" and more Alex Raymond too, with "Jungle Jim"!

Press on, kiddoes! Enjoy!

Talk to you soon.

Flash Gordon - King Comic Heroes part 2

Chapter 1 of Pioneer Book's "King Comic Heroes". A spotlight on the history of Flash Gordon and a little bit on Alex Raymond and Al Williamson.

Enjoy!

Talk to you soon.