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Severin originals, and goodbye from Hairy Green Eyeball

2011-09-22T00:08:00.000-07:00

John Severin has been a favorite of mine for many years, and I've done several blogs featuring his art. These are examples of his original art, taken from the Heritage Auctions site.

I've dreaded doing this posting, because it's my last as Hairy Green Eyeball. For some time other obligations have been pressing on me, which makes getting together the material for this blog--even at a reduced frequency of twice a week--a problem.

I started with the original HAIRY GREEN EYEBALL blog in May, 2008. I've enjoyed doing it for over three years. Thanks for reading.

The Absurd World of Exploitation on Film and Video

2011-09-19T00:40:00.000-07:00

ABSURD "The World of Exploitation on Film and Video," is a movie fanzine from the UK, done on a photo-copier. Modern technology has made these projects slicker, but not necessarily better. Its crude reproduction actually makes it more graphically appealing to me. The information it contains on cheesy horror movies is well done, presented well, and entertaining.

I found the scans online--thanks to the person who scanned this zine--and am showing it with the warning that it is PROBABLY NOT WORK SAFE, because of occasional nudity. I don't find anything about Anita Strindberg or Edwige Fenech offensive, but others may. BE AWARE.

Copyright © 1991 Ian Caunce

Strange Science by Virgil Finlay

2011-09-15T00:16:00.000-07:00

With these examples of his art the master pulp/fantasy/science fiction illustrator Virgil Finlay shows how incredibly talented he was. You can find more illustrations here.

From STRANGE SCIENCE, published by Underwood-Miller, 1992.

Copyright © 1992 Lail Finlay Hernandez

The New Yorker Album of Drawings 1925-1975 Part 2

2011-09-12T00:07:00.000-07:00

Great cartoons by great cartoonists from THE NEW YORKER. These are taken from the book, THE NEW YORKER ALBUM OF DRAWINGS 1925-1975.

You can see more cartoons from this book here.

Copyright © 1975 by The New Yorker Magazine

Al Capp's Li'l Abner Meets Wolf Gal in Wolf Valley, part 2

2011-09-08T00:30:00.000-07:00

Here is part 2 of the 1960 Li'l Abner sequence, which I began on Monday.

Copyright © 1960 United Feature Syndicate, Inc.

Al Capp's Li'l Abner meets Wolf Gal in Wolf Valley, part 1

2011-09-05T00:30:00.000-07:00

This week, a two-part sequence from Al Capp's brilliant LI'L ABNER. It's a story that begins with an attack on by animals on "hoomanity," and ends up with the government interfering in the marriage of Li'l Abner and Daisy Mae for the public good! In the meantime the old devil sex rears its head with the incredible Wolf Gal. She has set her sights on Li'l Abner, married or not.

This is part one, which appeared in newspapers February 4 to March 19, 1960. Come back Thursday for the second part of the story from this classic comic strip.More Capp here and here.

Copyright © 1960 United Feature Syndicate, Inc.

Part 2 on Thursday.

More Sweetie Pie

2011-09-01T00:21:00.000-07:00

Like cartoonist Marty Links, who I showed Monday, Nadine Seltzer was a successful female cartoonist in a male-dominated field during the 1950s. Her daily panel, "Sweetie Pie," was collected into a 1955 paperback book from which these examples are taken. Unlike Links, who continued her cartooning career after her feature, "Emmy Lou" was finished, Seltzer seems to have disappeared from the cartoon world after "Sweetie Pie" ended its run. At least I haven't been able to find references to Seltzer online. If you have information please let me know. Seltzer was a talented cartoonist, and her panel. a little girl version of "Dennis the Menace" showed she had a style that fit well into the era.

I showed more "Sweetie Pie," along with "Bobby Sox," here.

Copyright © 1955, 1961 NEA Service, Inc

Bobby Sox by Marty Links

2011-08-29T00:04:00.000-07:00

Martha "Marty" Links drew the popular newspaper comic, "Bobby Sox," later called "Emmy Lou," from 1944 to 1979. This successful female cartoonist then continued with her career, drawing for Hallmark Cards. Links was born in 1917, and died in 2008. These panels are from the book MORE BOBBY SOX, published in 1957.

I showed more from this book here.

Copyright © 1957 Marty Links

Dinosaurs Attack! part 2

2011-08-25T00:06:00.000-07:00

Part two of our DINOSAURS ATTACK! week. Scroll down to find the first part, with cards #1-34. This concluding set features the 11 dinosaurs stickers included with the set.

Copyright © 1988 The Topps Company Inc.

Dinosaurs Attack! part 1

2011-08-22T00:18:00.000-07:00

From the gory trading card set, DINOSAURS ATTACK, released in 1988 by Topps. You can read more about these cards here.

This is the first half of the set; come back on Thursday for the rest.

Copyright © 1988 The Topps Company Inc.

Go here for MARS ATTACKS (fronts only).

TOP DOG, Chapter 2

2011-08-18T00:34:00.000-07:00

Chapter two of TOP DOG by British cartoonist and humourist, Norman Thelwell. I showed chapter 1 here.

Copyright 1962, 1963, 1963 Norman Thelwell and Beaverbrook Newspapers Ltd.

ARMED FARCES by VIP

2011-08-15T00:21:00.000-07:00

ARMED FARCES by VIP (Virgil Partch) is a very funny collection of this unique cartoonist's gags from the Vietnam War era. I think, having been in the armed forces myself, that anyone who has ever served, or is serving now, will recognize the humor of these offbeat cartoons.

Copyright © 1968 East/West Publications

Copyright © 1969 Fawcett Publications, Inc.

Garth 1957 part 2

2011-08-11T00:07:00.000-07:00

This is part 2 of the 1957 Garth comic strip story by Steve Dowling from THE MIRROR CLASSIC CARTOON COLLECTION. For part 1 scroll down to Monday's posting.

Copyright © 1957 The Mirror

Garth 1957 part 1

2011-08-08T00:33:00.000-07:00

A 1957 adventure of the world famous Garth by Steve Dowling, from THE MIRROR CLASSIC CARTOON COLLECTION. I'm showing the first 18 pages here; the next 17 will be on Thursday.

Copyright © 1998 The Mirror

To be concluded Thursday, August 11, 2011.

The Calculating Cat, Chapter 2

2011-08-04T00:07:00.000-07:00

Eric Gurney's HOW TO LIVE WITH A CALCULATING CAT was first published in 1962, and went through many editions. Gurney, a Canadian who came to the U.S. to work for Disney, went freelance in 1948.

The first chapter of this book is here.

Gurney was 82 when he died in 1992.

Copyright © 1962 Prentice-Hall Inc.

Frank Frazetta's Shining Knight, 1950

2011-08-01T00:01:00.000-07:00

THE MASTERWORKS SERIES OF GREAT COMIC BOOK ARTISTS was a short-lived (three issues) series published by DC for Sea Gate Distributing in 1983. The first two issues were all Frank Frazetta, the third contained work by Bernie Wrightson.

The Shining Knight stories by the legendary fantasy artist Frank Frazetta were written by Joe Samachson, and appeared in ADVENTURE COMICS in 1950.

Copyright © 1983 DC Comics, Inc.

ADVENTURE COMICS #150, MARCH 1950:

ADVENTURE COMICS #151, APRIL 1950:

ADVENTURE COMICS #153, JUNE 1950:

ADVENTURE COMICS #155, AUGUST 1950:

ADVENTURE COMICS #157, OCTOBER 1950:

Bubblegum Batman '66

2011-07-28T00:02:00.000-07:00

The 55 cards (fronts only) from the 1966 Topps Chewing Gum Batman set. Information from www.oldbubblegumcards.com:

Batman Series 1 - known to bubblegum trading card collectors as Batman Orange Backs or Black Bats, has a total of 55 cards in the set. Each card is a full color hand-painted image by several artists, the majority by pulp cover veteran Norm Saunders (Mars Attacks) and from pencil drawings by Golden Age comics artist Bob Powell. The verso features a short storyline that follows the illustration.

Copyright © 1966 DC Comics

Atlantis 1982

2011-07-25T00:22:00.000-07:00

These fantastic images are from the of the Brothers Hildebrandt's 1982 calendar, ATLANTIS.

Copyright © 1981 Greg and Tim Hildebrandt

The Nine to Fivers

2011-07-21T00:50:00.000-07:00

Cartoons from THE NINE TO FIVERS, a collection of cartoons from the SATURDAY EVENING POST.

Copyright © 1962 E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.

Walt Kelly's Trouble On the Ark

2011-07-18T00:11:00.000-07:00

TROUBLE ON THE ARK is a Walt Kelly book, done using the pseudonym Tony Maclay. I don't know why he used a pen-name.

The scans were provided for us by David Miller, who went out of his way to help me show you this really fine example of Kelly's animal drawings by scanning his copy of this rare book. Thanks, Dave!

TROUBLE ON THE ARK Copyright © 1945 Tony Maclay

New Yorker Album of Drawings

2011-07-14T00:07:00.000-07:00

Some examples from THE NEW YORKER ALBUM OF DRAWINGS 1925-1975.

Copyright © 1975 The New Yorker

What's new, Mister Magoo?

2011-07-11T00:31:00.000-07:00

Pete Alvarado drew the Mister Magoo comic strip for its entire run. Alvarado was an award-winning animator, as well as a prolific comic book and comic strip artist. He died in 2003, age 83.

These strips are from the Scholastic paperback, WHAT'S NEW MISTER MAGOO?

Copyright © 1977 UPA Pictures, Inc.

Wally Wood comic strips for MAD

2011-07-07T00:04:00.000-07:00

Wally Wood's genius for his parodies of other cartoonists is shown by the original art for a double page spread from MAD #68, published in 1959. Heritage Auctions recently sold the artwork for $12,540.50. Wood even did the lettering for this hilarious Gary Belkin piece.

I'm also including three more of Wood's comic strip articles for MAD. These are all taken from the TOTALLY MAD CD set.

Copyright © 1999 E.C. Publications, Inc.

MAD #68:

MAD #72:

MAD #77:

MAD #81:

Sambo's Bicentennial Coloring Book

2011-07-04T00:08:00.000-07:00

It's been 34 years since America celebrated its 200th birthday, but we're bringing the Bicentennial back on this July 4, 2011 morning.

Bill Woggon, best known for his long-running Katy Keene feature for the Archie comic book company, had an art studio that did commissioned work. In 1976 he did this coloring book for the Sambo's chain of restaurants. Old coloring books are hard to find without having had crayons applied to them by the children for which they were intended, and I was happy to find this a couple of years ago intact and uncolored.

The Sambo's restaurant chain is no longer in business.

Arnold Roth on cats

2011-06-30T00:06:00.000-07:00

Skeleton Men of Jupiter by ERB

2011-06-27T00:06:00.000-07:00

The original printing of "Skeleton Men of Jupiter" by Edgar Rice Burroughs, from AMAZING STORIES February 1943.

Thanks to cape1736, who provided the scans online, and which I have freely appropriated.

Copyright © 1943 ERB

The clown with the red balls

2011-06-23T00:02:00.000-07:00

From MANY SURPRISES by Guy L. Bond, Grace A. Dorsey, Marie C. Cuddy, Kathleen Wise. Illustrations by A. F. Hurford and Miriam Story Hurford.

Copyright © 1949, 1954 Lyon and Carnahan

Hi Brow's YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT!

2011-06-20T00:23:00.000-07:00

A small (4 1/4" x 4 3/4") hardbound book published by American Greetings as a greeting card under the Hi Brow imprint. Written by Jack Clements and drawn by Glenn Imhoff.

Copyright © 1968 American Greetings Corp.

Roy Crane's Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy part 2

2011-06-16T00:04:00.000-07:00

This is part 2 of Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy. Scroll down to the post underneath this for part 1.

Copyright © 1932-1933 NEA Syndicate, Inc.

Roy Crane's Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy part 1

2011-06-12T00:35:00.000-07:00

As promised last week, here is the first of two parts of an adventure featuring Roy Crane's Wash Tubbs and his friend, Captain Easy. They originally appeared in newspapers from November 12, 1932 to April 25, 1933. These scans are taken from the reprint edition, CLASSIC ADVENTURE STRIPS #5, published by Dragon Lady Press in 1986.

Come back Thursday for the second and concluding part of the story.

Copyright © 1932-1933 NEA Syndicate, Inc.

Roy Crane's art techniques and his Lost World!

2011-06-09T00:18:00.000-07:00

Crane is one of the most influential and respected cartoonists of the mid-20th Century. He drew the comic strip, WASH TUBBS, joined after a time by soldier of fortune, CAPTAIN EASY. He gave up that strip for BUZ SAWYER.

In this article from CARTOONIST PROfiles #125, from March, 2000, his scrapbook with examples of his artistic technique gives cartoonists some very solid advice and ideas. Also a strip in development by Crane at the time of his death in 1977 is featured.

Copyright © 2000 CARTOONIST PROfiles, Inc.

Come back next week on Monday and Thursday for a two part adventure of Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy from 1932-'33!

Harvey Kurtzman's Schmegeggi

2011-06-06T00:13:00.000-07:00

Outer Limits trading cards

2011-06-02T00:01:00.000-07:00

I have a DVD set of the first season of THE OUTER LIMITS. Occasionally I watch an episode, just like kids did in 1964, when they wanted to see what kind of monster they could come up with that week. Topps gum company thought it would be a good idea to make a series of cards using those monsters, so they colored some production stills, wrote up some copy for the backs of the cards to go with the pictures (they couldn't use the TV stories, or they'd have to pay the writers royalties), and put them out in a set of 50. Needless to say, they were a monster hit.

Copyright © 1964 Topps

Jack Davis meets the North American Indians

2011-05-30T00:37:00.000-07:00

Illustrations by Jack Davis for MEET THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS by Elizabeth Payne.

Jack Davis illustrations for MEET ABRAHAM LINCOLN can be found here.

Copyright © 1965 Random House, Inc.

Brick Bradford down under

2011-05-26T00:15:00.000-07:00

I've had this Australian BRICK BRADFORD reprint comic since the 1960s, but my knowledge of Australian comics is sparse. I found this information in the blog, Comics Down Under:

Unsurprisingly, many of Page Publications early comic books dating from the mid-1960s were reprints of American newspaper comic strips, such as Beetle Bailey, Brick Bradford, Daisy and Jungle Jim – most of which were King Features Syndicate properties that were, in turn, sold to Australian newspapers by Page Publications’ ‘parent’ company, the Yaffa Syndicate.

These self-covered, 24-page comic books first appeared around 1965 (prior to the introduction of decimal currency in Australia), but by the following year, they began displaying the Page Comics/Silver Star logo on their covers.

Many of the covers for Page Publications’ adventure titles, such as Red Ryder, Big Ben Bolt and Secret Agent X9, were drawn by the Australian comic artist, Keith Chatto – who also drew the half-page panels used as introductory ‘space-fillers’ in these comics.

Decimal currency, referred to above, was introduced in Australia in 1966.

BRICK BRADFORD #19 and other comic strip content is Copyright © King Features Syndicate