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Post by coke & comics on Jan 18, 2017 3:23:56 GMT -5
I have been trying for some time to track down a comic strip from memory. I will throw it out here in case somebody has insight. I saw this comic in a newspaper clipping in the early 2000s, though the comic could be much older than that. It was a 3 panel comic entitled something akin to "How to draw a dog." The first panel was a circle for the head. The second added a couple dots and triangles for eyes, ears, nose. The third panel was the joke. It said, approximately, "Working carefully, fill in the details." The third panel was a photorealistic picture of a dog (perhaps a collie). I have always wanted this handy for teaching math or computer programming, as it seems quite apt. I likely saw it hanging on the wall of a math professor's office. And would love to track it down. This seems to fit the bill...from 9gag.com/gag/apoReW9/how-to-draw-a-panda-in-every-art-tutorialThat is precisely the joke. I would like to find the dog I remember, but this will serve my purposes. Thanks!
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 18, 2017 11:30:47 GMT -5
Anyone able to tell me on the below story lines, what you thought about them. Or more pointedly the extent of Victor Zsasz's role in said stories. It's really my only interest, as a post here rekindled my desire to get more of his appearances. They are all stories long after I stopped following Batman's monthly titles, so my interest in them, is his role, and if they are fairly self contained.
Batman: Cacophony Batman: Battle for the Cowl Batman: Streets of Gotham Gotham Underground
Thanks
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 18, 2017 12:08:10 GMT -5
I have been trying for some time to track down a comic strip from memory. I will throw it out here in case somebody has insight. I saw this comic in a newspaper clipping in the early 2000s, though the comic could be much older than that. It was a 3 panel comic entitled something akin to "How to draw a dog." The first panel was a circle for the head. The second added a couple dots and triangles for eyes, ears, nose. The third panel was the joke. It said, approximately, "Working carefully, fill in the details." The third panel was a photorealistic picture of a dog (perhaps a collie). I have always wanted this handy for teaching math or computer programming, as it seems quite apt. I likely saw it hanging on the wall of a math professor's office. And would love to track it down. Ben Edlund (or one of the people who followed him) did that gag in a Tick comic. It started out with th basic construction of a face (divided circle) then said "Now make it look like The Tick!" It was a parody of the old "Draw Superman (Batman, Flash, Prince Valiant, insert name)" pages in comics of the Silver Age. Sad thing was, it was a pretty accurate assessment of those features.
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Post by MDG on Jan 18, 2017 12:44:13 GMT -5
Good luck, kid!
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Post by ladyjames on Jan 19, 2017 14:24:57 GMT -5
I'm not sure if this is a "quick question" or not, I wasn't sure where to post. When I was a kid I had a bunch of old comics that were my Dad's and my uncles from when THEY were kids. Most of them were in bad shape, cover-less and missing the beginning and ending, but I loved looking at them. They seem to have gotten lost somewhere along the way and now I'm trying to find some of them, but I'm a complete noob and only have childhood memories to go by, so Google isn't helping much. I thought I would try a message board.
The first comic I'm looking for was (I'm pretty sure) a Ripley's Believe It or Not comic, probably from the '60s. The one story that stuck in my brain was about this famous ballerina named Olga _something_ who was now an old woman. She goes to some fortune teller/mystic man(?) and she wishes to be young again. She wakes up the next morning young and beautiful, says "see ya" to her old man husband, then goes to a dance studio to show that she's back. They tell her "you're no Olga *whatever*" and to go back to dance school because she's no good. She goes back to the mystic guy and complains that she's young, but clumsy and heavy on her feet; she wants to dance like she used to. She agrees to his deal (to dance with him or something) and she's magically transformed. Then we learn that he's the Devil and she's sold her soul and will dance with him forever in hell or something....
Does this ring a bell with anyone?
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Post by chickenpocket on Jan 19, 2017 14:51:51 GMT -5
The first comic I'm looking for was (I'm pretty sure) a Ripley's Believe It or Not comic, probably from the '60s. The one story that stuck in my brain was about this famous ballerina named Olga _something_ who was now an old woman. She goes to some fortune teller/mystic man(?) and she wishes to be young again. She wakes up the next morning young and beautiful, says "see ya" to her old man husband, then goes to a dance studio to show that she's back. They tell her "you're no Olga *whatever*" and to go back to dance school because she's no good. She goes back to the mystic guy and complains that she's young, but clumsy and heavy on her feet; she wants to dance like she used to. She agrees to his deal (to dance with him or something) and she's magically transformed. Then we learn that he's the Devil and she's sold her soul and will dance with him forever in hell or something.... Does this ring a bell with anyone? This issue (#11) of Ripley's has a story titled "The Ballerina's Last Dance". It might be the one you're looking for: www.comics.org/issue/22320/
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Post by ladyjames on Jan 19, 2017 15:06:51 GMT -5
The first comic I'm looking for was (I'm pretty sure) a Ripley's Believe It or Not comic, probably from the '60s. The one story that stuck in my brain was about this famous ballerina named Olga _something_ who was now an old woman. She goes to some fortune teller/mystic man(?) and she wishes to be young again. She wakes up the next morning young and beautiful, says "see ya" to her old man husband, then goes to a dance studio to show that she's back. They tell her "you're no Olga *whatever*" and to go back to dance school because she's no good. She goes back to the mystic guy and complains that she's young, but clumsy and heavy on her feet; she wants to dance like she used to. She agrees to his deal (to dance with him or something) and she's magically transformed. Then we learn that he's the Devil and she's sold her soul and will dance with him forever in hell or something.... Does this ring a bell with anyone? This issue (#11) of Ripley's has a story titled "The Ballerina's Last Dance". It might be the one you're looking for: www.comics.org/issue/22320/I saw that one in my Googling, but when I read a synopsis of the story it didn't seem to match. I've been trying to find scans of it or something I could recognize because the images are burned in my brain. I can't find where I saw the synopsis now... Update: from www.comics.org/issue/27723/#182935The Ballerina's Last DanceCharacters:Anna Pavlova; Frances DobleSynopsis:After her death the ghost of Madame Pavlova is seenIn my story, she wasn't dead or a ghost, and she was a fictional ballerina. And her name was Olga. My memory is fuzzy but I now think it was a longer version of Olga and then her husband shortened it to Olga when he talked to her.
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Post by ladyjames on Jan 19, 2017 16:12:17 GMT -5
This issue (#11) of Ripley's has a story titled "The Ballerina's Last Dance". It might be the one you're looking for: www.comics.org/issue/22320/I saw that one in my Googling, but when I read a synopsis of the story it didn't seem to match. I've been trying to find scans of it or something I could recognize because the images are burned in my brain. I can't find where I saw the synopsis now... Update: from www.comics.org/issue/27723/#182935The Ballerina's Last DanceCharacters:Anna Pavlova; Frances DobleSynopsis:After her death the ghost of Madame Pavlova is seenIn my story, she wasn't dead or a ghost, and she was a fictional ballerina. And her name was Olga. My memory is fuzzy but I now think it was a longer version of Olga and then her husband shortened it to Olga when he talked to her. Well, I've gotten no work done at the office all day, but at least I found it! I had a sudden memory of cartoon-Rod Serling waiting at the end of the story telling me to be careful what I wish for or something along those lines....
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 19, 2017 17:03:27 GMT -5
See how easy it is? (Tell that to Ross Andru...)
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Post by tingramretro on Jan 19, 2017 17:29:57 GMT -5
See how easy it is? (Tell that to Ross Andru...) I will not have a word said against Ross Andru...
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Post by Confessor on Jan 19, 2017 17:41:45 GMT -5
See how easy it is? (Tell that to Ross Andru...) I will not have a word said against Ross Andru... What? Wait? Is...is somebody criticising Ross Andru?! After the mighty Steve Ditko and John Romita, Andru is probably my favourite Spidey artist. That said, I'm not sure when he worked on the Flash, but some of his pre-Spidey work was not up to the standards of that glorious run. Marvel Super-Heroes #14 I'm looking at you.
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Post by tingramretro on Jan 19, 2017 17:45:45 GMT -5
I will not have a word said against Ross Andru... What? Wait? Is...is somebody criticising Ross Andru?! After the mighty Steve Ditko and John Romita, Andru is probably my favourite Spidey artist. That said, I'm not sure when he worked on the Flash, but some of his pre-Spidey work was not up to the standards of that glorious run. Marvel Super-Heroes #14 I'm looking at you. I loved Andru's work, he was the definitive Spidey artist for me and his work on The Defenders was equally unbeatable. One of the most underappreciated artists in mainstream American comics in my opinion.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 19, 2017 17:49:42 GMT -5
I will not have a word said against Ross Andru... What? Wait? Is...is somebody criticising Ross Andru?! After the mighty Steve Ditko and John Romita, Andru is probably my favourite Spidey artist. That said, I'm not sure when he worked on the Flash, but some of his pre-Spidey work was not up to the standards of that glorious run. Marvel Super-Heroes #14 I'm looking at you. Nuff said?
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Post by Confessor on Jan 19, 2017 18:03:37 GMT -5
What? Wait? Is...is somebody criticising Ross Andru?! After the mighty Steve Ditko and John Romita, Andru is probably my favourite Spidey artist. That said, I'm not sure when he worked on the Flash, but some of his pre-Spidey work was not up to the standards of that glorious run. Marvel Super-Heroes #14 I'm looking at you. I loved Andru's work, he was the definitive Spidey artist for me and his work on The Defenders was equally unbeatable. One of the most underappreciated artists in mainstream American comics in my opinion. No arguments from me there. Andru drew fantastic comics and I always particularly liked the way he drew (clone) Gwen Stacy. But the thing that always comes to my mind when I think of his tenure on ASM is how well he depicted Spidey's acrobatics among the skyscrapers: it always looked much more dangerous than how other artists depicted it. Andru was brilliant at rendering those vertigo-inducing heights that Spider-Man scaled and you really got a vivid sense of just how high above the ground he was. In fact, as far as I'm concerned, no other artist has ever depicted this aspect of Spider-Man comics better than Andru.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 19, 2017 19:10:14 GMT -5
I loved Andru's work, he was the definitive Spidey artist for me and his work on The Defenders was equally unbeatable. One of the most underappreciated artists in mainstream American comics in my opinion. No arguments from me there. Andru drew fantastic comics and I always particularly liked the way he drew (clone) Gwen Stacy. But the thing that always comes to my mind when I think of his tenure on ASM is how well he depicted Spidey's acrobatics among the skyscrapers: it always looked much more dangerous than how other artists depicted it. Andru was brilliant at rendering those vertigo-inducing heights that Spider-Man scaled and you really got a vivid sense of just how high above the ground he was. In fact, as far as I'm concerned, no other artist has ever depicted this aspect of Spider-Man comics better than Andru. I've said this here before. Andru's art always, always looked better at Marvel than at DC. When I'd see his Spider-Man, it's almost like I had to re-check the credits to convince myslef that the same guy who drew the graceful, lithe Spider-Man was the same guy who drew the blocky, chunky, ungainly Flash.
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