"The Barefoot Nocountessa!" - Jack Davis - Mad Monday!

"Scene's We's...Like to See!" - Jack Davis - Mad Monday!

"Under the Waterfront!" - Wally Wood - Mad Monday!

"Slow Motion!" - Jack Davis - Mad Monday!

"Stalag 18!" - Wally Wood - Mad Monday!

Harvey Kurtzman and Wally Wood are a lot like the pairing of Kurtzman and Bill Elder, but I find that when Kurtzman and Elder begin to dip their fingers into the chicken fat of satire, they kind of go all over the place, but together,  With Kurtman and Wood I feel that the ground they cover is just as dense, but they both start from different places and cover different ground by the time they come together,

I won't attempt my slight hand at analyzing this genius any longer...let's bask in the real deal instead.

Talk to you soon.

"Julius Caesar!" - Wally Wood - Mad Monday!

Wood is good.  Wood is sometimes extra-ordinary, even for wood.  Wood always makes you glad you read Wood.

Here's Wally Wood in all his glory in satire as he and Harvey Kurtzman take on "Julius Caesar!" and Marlin Brando and all the rest.  Rock solid layouts and cartooning all coming to a head on the last page, where it becomes a surrealists/comic strip dream.

Dig in!

Talk to you soon!

Saturday Morning Cartoons! - Black, White and Silent!

I feel it's cheating on Saturday when all I'm doing here really is linking to other folks' posted videos.  I'm basically just pointing out what you kind blog readers could find yourselves.

Then, I thought, what if they don't go and find them?  Then my readers would miss out on taking a 20-30 minute break once a day to watch some cartoons.

A crime, I replied...so here they are!

Since my sketchbook posts have included some very early animation characters, thought I'd focus on those this week.  Enjoy the hell out of these seldom watched classics...I do on a regular basis.

Here's a bonus...an old blog post with your old Unca Jeffy, watching a Felix cartoon.  One of 3 in a series I did like this way back in the early days of this blog, and maybe one of my oddest ideas...still strangely intrigueing and I'mm wondering if I should do more some day.

Talk to you soon.

Saturday Morning Cartoons!

Saturday Morning and finally a respite to a 2 week period of obligations!  I still have a couple of errands to run, but no all-day or 1/2 da commitments involved, and you know what makes me feel like I'm at the beginning of 2 days of liberation?

Saturday morning cartoons!  Mmmmmmmmm.

Dig in, everyone...Monday's just around the corner, but for now...we are free.

Talk to you soon.

Saturday Morning Cartoons! -

Apparently my punishment for enjoying a 4 day holiday last weekend for the Comic-Con, is to work 6 days THIS week.  I'm off to L.A. for a company meeting, but that doesn't mean YOU kiddoes can't enjoy some Saturday Morning Cartons.

I've spotlighted 6 of the major 8 cartoons studios of Hollywood's golden age in the last two weeks.  Disney never really fell into Saturday morning syndication mode and RKO's Van Beuren cartoons are something only folks who grew up in the 1950's will remember as Saturday morning fare, that ain't gonna stop me though...we're gonna have solid cartoon goodness here.

Throwing in more classic Warners as we continue around the horn and cycle through the 8 and have some good variety here every Saturday.

sigh...off to my meeting.

 Talk to you soon.

"Wild 1/2!" - Wally Wood - Mad Mondays!

You can tell it's 1954 by the next story up in Mad (THE COMIC BOOK) #15.  It's Harvey Kurtzman and Wally Wood's take on the classic Marlon Brando film "The Wild One", "Wild 1/2!".

This one doesn't really stand out to me as a Wood story...something seems hurried about it.  Perhaps he wasn't interested much in the subject matter.

Either way or even if it's just my imagination...if it's Wood, it's good!

Dig in, kiddoes!

Talk to you soon.