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Post by zilch on Jan 4, 2016 23:09:01 GMT -5
Gary Larson for... well, you know...
Always big fun and weird humor.
'Nother quick tale bout how a comic affected my life...
When my son was in school, we knew he was smart. Teachers always know which kids will excel and those that need help. We just didn't know HOW smart he was. His third grade teacher was mightily impressed and glowed at the parent-teacher meeting when he told us he had tested at an 8th grade level for all his classes, but what impressed him most was he would post "Far Side" cartoons and my son would be the only one sometimes to laugh at the postings. He asked him why they were funny, and he was impressed that he got the humor and the science or language behind them to find them hilarious.
With the aim in the proper directions, he graduated with honors from Webster University with a degree in Communications.
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Post by zilch on Jan 4, 2016 22:47:01 GMT -5
Confession time, gang... (number one of three in a series, ect.)
Part the first: Why this is so damned hard....
I'm really having a hard time putting these people in an order of like. At any given time, i could pick any of the twelve as my favorite and not think a thing of it.
So, today...
Jack Kirby for Kamandi.
I wish i could give it to him for Boy Commandos or Boy's Ranch, but he was teamed with other talented people for those. The first 20 issues of Kamandi are some of my favorite comics and a big fave from my brothers and my Dad.
I've been mulling around a sci-fi story in my head and yesterday i thought "Kamandi." Now i kinda have to rethink it a bit, cause Kirby never hit the same ground the same way anytime, and if i commit it, i have to be different too.
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Post by zilch on Jan 2, 2016 18:33:39 GMT -5
*Avengers #146 (two part fill-in in the middle of a multi-part story... gotta love it!) *Champions #5 *Defenders #34 (loads of Gerber/S. Buscema goodness!) Doctor Strange #13 Incredible Hulk #198 *Inhumans #4 *Iron Fist #4 Ka-Zar #15 Kamandi #40 Marvel Premiere #29 *Marvel Presents #4 Marvel Team-Up #44 Metal Men #45 (AWW YAH!!!) Super-Villain Team Up #5 Thor #246 (why was i buying Thor???) Warlock #12 X-Men #98 (i remember buying this after karate class; it was raining and i dropped it in a water puddle before i got back in the car!!!)
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Post by zilch on Jan 1, 2016 18:16:12 GMT -5
This is mostly reading from my indexing books for the Unofficial Guide to the DC Universe...
January...
Red Robin #6-8 Teen Titans v3 #98-100 Infinity, Inc. #26, 29 Infinity, Inc. v2 #6-8 Superman/Batman Annual #4 Superman/Batman #68-71 Police Comics #10 Adventures of Rex the Wonder Dog #1-3 Superboy v #92-93 Vertigo Visions: Dr. Occult #1 Wonder Woman v2 #135-138
through 1/15: 30 total
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Post by zilch on Dec 29, 2015 1:17:11 GMT -5
Slight turn to the modern for a moment...
Frank Cho
Looking for something my son and i could share comic book wize, we both enjoyed Bone (but it falls off a bit towards the end, i think...) and one or two other things (i think we both dug MST3K equally when we discovered it), but i bought Liberty Meadows because of the weiner-dog and my son was a very precocious child, so i felt just a bit... awkward... giving him such "adult" material at a young age, but he handled it pretty well, i think. He would always ask me when i went to the comic book store on Wednesdays "Any new Liberty Meadows out this week?" and his joy of reading it on the way home whenever it showed up.
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Post by zilch on Dec 29, 2015 1:01:23 GMT -5
Day 6 is an unknown (well, uncelebrated anyway) creator and founder... Jon L. Blummer Who, you might ask? Well, Bails' Who's Who is light on actual information, but he was a very competent artist and writer for the entire run of the Hop Harrigan strip in All-American Comics, pre-dating Green Lantern as its star. Hop was popular enough to have a comic strip (briefly in 1942), a radio show and a movie serial! He also had a club for kids to join, predating ones for Superman and the Justice Society! He was also the artist on the Lone Ranger comic strip, but was at home with the airplane genre of adventure hero.
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Post by zilch on Dec 25, 2015 0:10:13 GMT -5
Meanwhile, back in the Great White North...
.... a story years in the making by an artist who grew into the work and brought us along for the ride...
Lynn Johnson!
(HA! Thought i was gonna go all aardvark on ya!)
She built her story from a simple gag-a-day style to bring us along raising a family and meeting both birth and death with simple grace and humor. She dealt with such issues as homosexuality, homelessness, children growing into adults, morphing into a grandparent and finding her voice and place in the world.
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Post by zilch on Dec 24, 2015 23:44:51 GMT -5
Well, a popular choice...
Keno Don Rosa...
for... (i got a lot of these ellipses cheap!...)
Captain Kentucky!
What? No Uncle Scrooge? No Duck work??
I've been a big Rosa fan for a LONG time. He nailed it for me with his weekly strip for the local Louisville paper that took the erstwhile star of Pertwillaby Papers and had him exposed to a toxic chemical and granted Superman like powers and interacted with menaces and horrors around Louisville with plenty of cameos from local celebrities. It was reprinted in The Comic Reader and a one-shot.
And imagine Krypto as a Basset Hound that really acts like a dog. Freakin' hillarious!!!
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Post by zilch on Dec 24, 2015 23:16:09 GMT -5
Third day...
Don Martin
... who rocked Mad Magazine when we were kids and the uproarious Captain Klutz cinched a spot on my faves list!
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Post by zilch on Dec 23, 2015 19:14:13 GMT -5
Day 2...
Sheldon Mayer
Fell in love with his work reading a collection of his Scribbly/Red Tornado in the big Smithsonian Collection of Comic Books. Manic action in a slightly cartoony style. He was EIC of the All-American line during the 1940s and managed to infuse his love of the medium in all the books in his line, pushing the artistic talents of those working for him in the right directions.
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Post by zilch on Dec 23, 2015 19:05:48 GMT -5
Sorry for the late posting...
Various reasons why i've been quiet lately (illness, depression, the looming death of my job, general malaise, ennui... you know) so, without further ado... (and in no particular order)
Day 12
Charles Schulz
why so low on the list? Never been a big Peanuts fan, but always enjoyed his work, and looking back at his evolution/devolution as an artist is fascinating in itself.
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Post by zilch on Dec 7, 2015 0:11:46 GMT -5
Sunflowers?
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Post by zilch on Dec 3, 2015 7:51:32 GMT -5
Memories get fuzzy around this point because i was frequenting a dry cleaning/used bookstore that sold back issues for 10 cents and picked up a bunch of stuff there...
All-Star #59 (!) Astonishing Tales #34 Avengers #145* (great cover!!) Blackhawk #244 (digging the new look!) Champions #4* Doomsday+1 #5 (at the drugstore that sold only Charltons!) FF #168 Freedom Fighters #1 Howard the Duck #2 (my Dad bought this book from me for investment purposes!) Invaders #5* JLA #128* (i think this is when my subscription ended) Kamandi #39 (also ended my subscription here) Marvel Team-Up #43 (great 4 part story!!) MTA #28 (filling in my Avengers run!) MTIO #14 (a Christmas story featuring the Son of Satan!) Omega #1 (great story!!) Skull the Slayer #4 (this got passed around the back seat of the car quite a bit!) Thor #245 (loved the Buscema/Sinnott work here!)
Reupped my Marvel subs and dropped the DC ones for Christmas this year... full fledged Marvel Zombie now!!! (would swing back probably around '80 or so... every five years switched back and forth for some reason....
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Post by zilch on Nov 1, 2015 21:33:31 GMT -5
Avengers #144 (!!!!!)* Champions #3* Daredevil #130 DC Special #20 (I've bought this book three times, thinking i didn't have it anymore... awesome cover and great reprint stories!) Defenders #32* Fantastic Four #167 (FF in STL!!!) Incredible Hulk #196 (love the SalB/Staton art team!) Inhumans #3* Iron Fist #3* Kamandi #38* (Kirby art and Conway scripting... sigh) Marvel Presents #3* Marvel Team-Up #42 Thor #244 Warlock #11 X-Men #97 (always loved Havoc!)
*Subscription copies (except for Kamandi, all my DC subscriptions have stopped by this time... and Kamandi stops at #40, i think...)
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Post by zilch on Oct 20, 2015 2:06:11 GMT -5
If i was called to jury duty just two weeks later, i might have been on the jury that heard McFarlane's case against Tony Twist
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