Comics, The War and After, part 2

Again more from the tome Comic Art in America, from 1959. But just the strips.

This was a library book (The tight binding explains some lousy scans) that I had to return before scanning everything, what's more, it was overdue and I had to pay $13 in fines, so I hope this is worth it to you. The other two chapters were a chapter called “Of Cabbages and Kings” of editorial cartoons and who won the Pulitzer Prize up to that point, and the other was called “The Lyrical Clowns”. It had examples of Krazy Kat, Pogo, and Peanuts; which are still in print elsewhere.

I won't be able to retype the book's captions, but I think I can tell you what these are from.

The first two are examples of Rex Morgan, M. D.

Judge Parker

The Heart of Juliet Jones

Dennis the Menace

It's Me, Dilly

Long Sam

On Stage?

Beetle Bailey

Hi and Lois

Bringing Up Father

Founding members of the National Cartoonist Society

FRENZY #6, 1 of 4

FRENZY was another one of those black and white juvenile humor magazines. They did six issues in the late fifties. The late fifties saw the debut of a lot of these. I can't tell if there were more in the fifties or more in the seventies.

This Martian Ernie Kovacs person looks like he was probably the magazine's mascot.


The publisher here is Adrian Lopez who later published HARPOON. The contributors didn't get credited in the masthead. I can't say whether or not it was by choice.




Parody of the Viceroy ad campaign.





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