"Cowboy!" - Jack Davis - Mad Monday!

Jack Davis does DOUBLE duty!!

That's right, Mad #20 saw a SECOND story lavished with Davis' beautiful (do you all realize what grand importance and grandeur I slather on this word, BTW?) cartoons.

I love these kind of comparison things that Kurtzman would do.  Being from Montana (albeit 80 years after traditional time) I knew plenty of real cowboys.  Matt Dillon they weren't.  More like dirty humorless Festus'!

Jack Davis understood.

Talk to you soon.

Still Other Little Golden Type Books!

Another lazy Sunday going through my old children's books...browse along, won't you?

Talk to you soon.

Cartoon Tools - and Their Mis-use!

Finishing up work on my 24 Hour Comic Book (that's 7 day comic book to YOU, mister!) and struck by the crutches cartoonists fall on in order to get what they're saying across.  Some good, some so archaic and dated, that they're near indecipherable for the modern reader.  Putting this thought into "strip form" even made the "set-up + set-up = punchline rhythm of a strip stuck out like a sore thumb for me.

What have we learned from this examination?  Only what we've always known.  Charles Schulz was a genius and Jim Davis is STILL a worthless piece of shit.

The experiment proves the science.  All is right in the world.

Talk to you soon.

Coloring and Afterthoughts of 24 Hour Comics Day!

I'm slowwwwwwwly starting to recover from the sleep deprivation and the body clock jarring experience of "24 Hour Comics Day".

It was SUCH a positive creative AND social experience I wouldn't trade it for all the good night sleeps in town, though.

I plan on commenting a bit more on it this week, as I catch up on coloring and FINISHING my entry...here's a preview BTW.

There was also the inter-active good time of rooting on fellow participants and being rooted by the same, through Twitter, Facebook and 24 HCD's own blog, that had a real creative feel to it.  I was able to draw elbow to elbow with people all across the country...no across the PLANET, in every major and not-so-major city you could imagine!!!

Coloring is a tedious process for me, but MORE tedious for keeping me from reading all those great new comics that got born out there on Saturday,

I learned a lot from jumping head first into this thing, and next year I'll be back with what I learned and be able to jump in feet first.

Thanks again to all of you for reading along, if you had even 1% of the fun that I had...well shit, you missed out on 99% of the good time!

Talk to you soon.

"Paul Revere's Ride!" - Jack Davis - Mad Mondays!

Mad THE COMIC BOOK #20 and Jack Davis does an AWESOME cartooning turn that rivals the one we saw Wood do last week.

I wonder how many kiddies in the 1950's (or since) actually know stanzas of this Longfellow poem the bast from pouring over these pages.  

I'll bet a lot.  Cartoons can really suck a kids mind into the work at hand.

Mine too.

Talk to you soon.