now I am a comic geek - but I have no clue where those PS Will Eisner comics are from......... man - those look great!
The Army put out the preven***ive maintenance publication with a comic theme featuring Connie Rod . It was a user friendly way of educating soldiers about maintaining their equipment. They had Will Eisner enlisted so they put him to work with this project.
Thoroughly enjoyed reading Cartoons on Wheels by Fred Boatman. Highly recommended !! lots of Granny McGo,Dipstick,Arin Cee & more..305 pgs. packed with funny stories and great illustration. Autographed copies available http://www.fredboatmancartoons.com. Also got the CD from Pete Millar Presents The History of Hot Rod Comic Books recently from his family with a personal note which is also worth checking out. Summer reading will be One For the Road by the talented Alex Toth which i found used on ebay. Thanks for the memories ! Will Eisner Spirit Mustang Jockey by Nicholas Alascia
They made it look easy .... and some ads for the kids ? also some crime issues with cars. The Wrecker
i believe i followed this link and got mine. It gives you good information but the cover images are not all that sharp. It might be that i do not have the correct reading program installed ? Anyone else purchased one with the same results? http://www.laffyerasphalt.com/new-hotrodcomics.html some more old panels Buzzy
yes he did some of the crime & pulp car covers. he was very GOOD as you have noted. a couple here are off topic but they show his talent + an unrelated SOS story from a Rookie Cop comic + excellent Toth page +Pete Millar Santa
would artists back then be in charge of the COMPLETE cover - or just the images and then the graphix for the ***les were dropped in over them? Just curious if LB Cole did the LOGO on the Criminals on the Run cover..........
I do not know if J B Cole did the logo on all his covers. It looks as if the logo is part of the illustration on the spider cover. Most comics had an illustrator,an inker , & a letterer. An artist was usually kept very busy cranking out the art on a monthly ***le and did not have time to ink and letter. The talented artist who did the cover was not always the one who drew the interior panels. The cover logos were usualy cut & pasted see attahed images..with glue residue & scissor cuts . Also note the different way the logo worked with the two L B Cole Criminal covers
Wow. Seeing Teenage Hotrodders again, Clint Curtis, too. Many thanks. No wonder we turned out the way we did, but how did the artists know they would impact us so greatly?
Don Markstein notes that talking about cars was as popular then as talking about computers is now. On Aug. 25, 1919 (tho some sources say it was in January), a Gasoline Alley panel started appearing in the daily Tribune as well. Before long, it expanded from a panel into a full-scale strip. On Feb. 14, 1921, Walt found the baby abandoned on his doorstep. That was the day Gasoline Alley entered history as the first comic strip in which the characters aged normally. The baby, named Skeezix (cowboy slang for a motherless calf), grew up, fought in World War II, and is now a retired grandfather. Walt married after all, and had more children, who had children of their own, etc. More characters entered the storyline on the periphery, and some grew to occupy center stage. In short, Gasoline Alley became comics' first soap opera — and arguably, at least, the first soap opera of any kind, ever. At first the strip was simply devoted to America's perpetual love affair with automobiles, based on real people the creator had known on Chicago's South Side. "My brother... had a car that he kept in the alley with a fellow by the name of Bill Gannon and some others. I'd go to his house on Sunday, and we'd go down the alley and run into somebody else and talk cars. That was the beginning of Gasoline Alley," King said in an interview.
Gasoline Alley 1924 "Unlike the daily strips, which traced narratives that went on for many months, the Sunday pages almost always worked as discrete units," Heer writes. "Whereas the dailies allowed events to unfold, Sunday was the day to savor experiences and ruminate on life. It is in his Sunday pages that we find King showing his visual storytelling skills at their most developed: with sequences beautifully testifying to his love of nature, his feeling for artistic form, and his deeply felt response to life." The strip's cast of car-tinkering buddies expanded with a significant addition on St. Valentine's Day in 1921. On that morning the amiable, somewhat bumbling Walt Wallet opened his door to find a small infant on his steps. From there on Gasoline Alley became a family strip, with the clock ticking away in real time, as the child Skeezix saw "Uncle" Walt marry "Aunt" Phyllis in 1926, gained a brother, Corky, in 1928, had his first shave in 1937, enlisted in the army in 1942, married Nina Clock in 1944, and had a child, Chipper, on April Fool's Day (!) in 1945. The progression of normal growth and change throughout the normal ups and downs of family life, school, marriage and employment has entertained the strip's fans throughout its 78-year timespan, a full four generations of the Wallet clan..Steve Stiles
I feel like I've spent a Saturday in rbantique's ba*****t looking cool comics and magazines...damn cool thread. Thanks to all.
As a kid we called them funny books or the Sunday funnies .. see attached thumbnails.. also a pulp cover .
George Trosley's past & present art is worth checking out ! Also " Custom for a Killer " artwork by **** Giordano from an old Hot Rods and Racing Cars comic + Frank Giacioa org. strip art
Original artwork by Dave Bell that was published in Custom Rodder + some random samples of his art from the magazine.
Notary Sojac! That works. ***uming this isn't yours, we need to get the owner on the HAMB and see if we can talk him into a more traditional wheel and tire combo. After all, he'd only have to buy two of 'em!
My summer reading project when time permits is to read all the Gasoline Alley comic strips. i started in 1924 and have read up to mid 1929. When I come across a car related ones I save it to post on HAMB. When I was a kid I loved to hang out at the filling station and listen the men talk about cars inbetween pumping gas & fixing flats. The red old cooler with the bottle opener on the side had plenty of ice cold Coke. All the filling stations around here are self serve mini markets now. Almost all the garages have gone out of business. your avitar is circa 1926
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