Saturday, July 31, 2010

For me, I'm not laughing

This is another re-posting from the original Hairy Green Eyeball blog. It appeared on June 17, 2008, and deserves to be seen again.

The original art for this 1978 6-page Bernie Wrightson story sold at auction for over $15,500. Wouldn't it be nice to have that kind of money to spend on this sort of thing? I wish I did.






Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Emmy Lou and Sweetie Pie

A recent trip to a local thrift store netted these two cartoon books, both by women.

I'm always surprised that there haven't been more female cartoonists; any women would seem to have been crowded out by the male cartoonists, who outnumbered them. But many women were very fine cartoonists, including Marty Links, who drew "Bobby Sox," title later changed to "Emmy Lou," from 1944 to 1979. Links, whose first name was Martha, was a member of the National Cartoonists Society. After closing down "Emmy Lou" she went into greeting cards and Kidlinks.

Is this a mistake in the Wikipedia entry for Marty Links, whose birth name is listed as Martha Arguello? Later in the article it says she married a man named Arguello.

Links, born in 1917, died in 2008.

"Bobby Sox" Copyright © 1957 Marty Links















"Sweetie Pie" appears to be cartoonist Nadine Seltzer's chief claim to cartooning fame. A female Dennis the Menace, it's hard not to draw comparisons between her character and the timeless Hank Ketcham Dennis. Sweetie Pie, who has charm as well as mischief, lasted from 1954 to 1967, a good run for any strip. Also, this compilation, SWEETIE PIE, went through at least 11 printings, as shown in the indicia I've scanned, so apparently someone was buying the book.

After "Sweetie Pie" folded Nadine Seltzer didn't show up on the cartooning radar again, so what happened? Maybe a family member or a friend can enlighten us.

"Sweetie Pie" Copyright © 1955 NEA Service Inc.















Sunday, July 25, 2010

Captain George presents the Mouse and the Ket


Captain George, of Toronto, published COMIC WORLD and other fanzines in the late '60s and early 1970s. This is COMIC WORLD #4, featuring George Herriman's Krazy Kat, undated but circa 1968 or '69.

I have only scanned a portion of the contents of this newsprint fanzine.

Krazy Kat copyright © King Features Syndicate, Inc.