Comics in the Golden Age

How I arrived on Bluesky.

A gun is sitting on a shelf with a tag on it. The tag says: A 45 colt type pistol I am a gun An instrument of death A murder weapon hardened… In the fires of hate Conceived with cold cunning of a killer’s mind… “Death is My Destiny”

The Spirit from March 4, 1951. Art by Will Eisner.

Cat, I will never again in my life see her or any of the Runaways without thinking of you.

Abolish ICE.

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A comic panel of Uncle Scrooge thinking "what a horrible fate to befall the world!"

An image of the Thing (Ben Grimm) dressed like Brad Pitt in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, with a cigar in his hand.

Just realized it's been over a year since I showed off this commission I got from @rpace.bsky.social. He was raising money for a charity. I will never stop showing this off.

Buz Sawyer volume 1 to 4, by the great Roy Crane.

Buz Sawyer newspaper strip collections.

Mail day. Yay.

This episode is why I had laser eye surgery. My worst nightmare. Haunted me for years.

Burgess Meredith in the Twilight Zone episode “Time Enough at Last.” He is enjoying a book on the ruins of a library after a nuclear war.

Me, every time I take a break from reading the news to try to escape with a book or comic.

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Columbo and the Third Doctor

In a better world...

A comic panel of Uncle Scrooge thinking "what a horrible fate to befall the world!"

Every comic I’ve ever drawn has taken a chunk of my health with it. Every cartoonist should be a millionaire for the amount of effort you have to put in.

Abolish ICE.

It's so damn beautiful.

An image of the Thing (Ben Grimm) dressed like Brad Pitt in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, with a cigar in his hand.

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The first pane shows Charlie Brown overhearing someone saying "one, one, one." He turns and sees Lucy jumping rope and just repeating "one" over and over. He shouts "Two, Lucy! Two!" In the fina panel we see her jumping rope with an expression suggesting she is out of control and shouting "two, two, two!"

Lucy van Pelt first appeared in Peanuts on March 3, 1952.

Before there was Farmville, there was "U.S. Acres," and the Jim Davis-created strip first appeared 40 years ago, on March 3, 1986. Here’s the first week of dailies:

A meteorite smashes the main oxygen tank aboard the space ship that Lois Lane & Professor Vern are aboard. Superman somehow compresses the escaping oxygen into a solid mass and repairs the tank. Later, two heavily armed rocket craft approach and they realize they want them to follow them.

The Superman newspaper strip from March 3, 1946.

A black and white photo of him.

An original page of art by him from the Mickey strip and the cover to a collection of Walt Disney's Treasury of Classic Tales comic strip.

Today is the birthday of animator & artist Manuel Gonzales (March 3, 1913-March 31, 1993). A Spanish-American immigrant, he took over the Sunday Mickey Mouse strip from Floyd Gottfredson, which he drew from 1938-1981 (excl. WWII service). He also worked on a variety of other Disney newspaper strips.

Yep, that too!

In this 13-panel strip, Nemo and his companion are exploring the North Pole. They ascend a circular staircase that has icicles hanging off of it, which leads to several large faucets. Two of them blast water, which is then turned to snow by two others that blast cold. They rush down the staircase to avoid getting frozen, but just has it looks like they won't make it, Nemo is woken up from his dream.

Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay from March 3, 1907.

Like I said in another post, I'm happy to eat crow if I'm wrong. I just think we should be a little more careful about blowing up every scary post online.

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I totally agree. But their general belief is VERY different than military commanders giving specific speeches to that effect during the course of an operation. Shit is bad enough without people making up worse shit.

I'm happy to eat crow if I'm wrong. I just don't thing we should be accepting everything a random substack says automatically because it happens to fit our personal narrative of what may be happening.

But as batshit as the things he said are, he didn't say these statements publicly. And everyone is reposting this article from a relatively small account like its gospel. I dunno...