Happy Saturday and another delve into Unca Jeffy's Toy Box!
A last pimp for the new Thor movie as I show off my nifty keen Thor helmet and Nerf "Mjolnir". I couldn't get bearded, one-eyed, wise Odin to look over my shoulder, so The Flying Spaghetti Monster is standing in for him.
Lest ye think this blog is becoming comic book-centric, what with "A 'Slight History of the Golden Age of Comic Book Super Heroes" taking over Tuesday-Thursday" slors for a while and "Mad Monday" ongoing, I thought I'd slip some Comic STRIP based toys into today's post. Yes folks, Strips and Books are two distinct art forms. Though both peak examples of narrative sequential art, they both take on different skills for both artist and reader, and I hold them both in high regard.
Craig Yoe and his studio did a series of figurines devoted to the greats of the comic strip world. Distributed by Dark Horse Comics (good for you guys!) they were fashioned in an old-school style of being rough-hewn yet molded from a substance called "sirocco", near as I can tell a wood resin of some kind, and hand painted and numbered. They're frickin' cool.
Here's a glimpse of my library with the Yoe sirocco figures standing guard!
A little close-up of one group...
...and the other.
Today I spotlight the characters of "Li'l Abner" represented here. Al Capp's masterwork of the citizens of Dogpatch ranks high on my and many folk's list of comic strip greats!
Here's Li'l Abner Yokum hisself...
...and a rear view highlighting his stylish rear seat patch.
The love of his life, Daisy Mae...
...and her stylish rear. Oh, and she's got a patch too. :P
The greatest gift to mankind as well as the greatest threat to his existance, The Shmoo! Depending how the meat of the Shmoo is cooked it can taste like the finest steak, the most scruptious chicken or the most succulent pork. It gives milk (and all it's by-products of cheese and butter in ready made form) AND eggs. It's skin, depending how thick it's taken, can by as durable as the toughest leather or as fine as the most luxurient silk...and it's eyes can be used for buttons. It swoons with happiness and dies ith a smile on it's face if we desire any use of i's body and they breed faster than rabbits...as if you didn't know...
...and it has an ample bottom too!
These figures come in these colorful tin boxes...
...and inside they also come accessorized with these bitchin', boss, cool pin-back buttons...
...and these way-cool booklets with a quick description of each character and the genius of their creator, Al Capp!
I have specific reason for picking these characters first, and if you check back here tomorrow for "Sunday Funnies" you'll see why. "Nemo: the Classic Comics Library" is done (except for 2 issues I've yet to get ahold of) and the "Sunday Funnies" goes color, they way the good Flying Spaghetti Monster intended it to be
I'll look for you then!
Talk to you soon.
Chester Gould's iconic hard boiled detective, "Dick Tracy"...
Chic Young's "Blondie"...sigh...how'd Dagwood get so lucky?...
Lee Falk's "Mandrake the Magician", one of the forerunners of comic book super heroes (and as we'll see in the comig weeks and months in "A 'Slight' History of Golden Age Comic Book Super Heroes", direct inspiration for at least a score of said heroes)...
And Billy DeBeck's original little ne'er-do-well, "Barney Google"...
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