Comics in the Golden Age

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.

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.

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...

Yes and no.

This was one of the shows I bonded with my mom over growing up. The ones I recall her most loving were WKRP in Cincinnati, Days of Our Lives, Magnum PI, Wiseguy, Northern Exposure, Homicide: Life on the Street, & Boston Public.

(Young folk, if the wording of this post seems weird, it's a Magnum reference.)

Tom Selleck as Magnum smiling.

I know what you're thinking...and yeah, it has been an emotionally exhausting day. But aren't they all now? Anyways, I'm going to end this one by rewatching the series finale of Magnum P.I.

When we are living in a post-apocalyptic world, if I manage to survive, I'd love to find a way to go overseas and visit those streets. And take a photo if I can salvage a workable camera.

Disney comic artist Carl Barks has a street in the Netherlands named after him, Carl Barksweg. There’s also Mickey Mousestraat, Donald Ducklaan, Goofystraat, Asterixstraat, Obelixstraat, & Popeyestraat.

I admit to having very little exposure or knowledge as to the early years.

The Family Circus: The Complete Comics From The Beginning: 1960-61.

I picked this up at the Strand in NY three or four years ago, but still haven't read it. Should I finally dive in?

A close up of Howard the Duck from the cover to issue #26 of his series. He is saying "Okay folks---Happy Time!" He is supposed to be hypnotized because he runs into the circus of crime in this issue but his dead eyes make him look like he is having an existential crisis.

Pappy Dolan (in his full, old fashioned Western outfit, including cowboy hat, boots, and two pistols) is sitting on the Spirit logo, and the letters are dark buildings with window lights on that are shaped like the letters in "Spirit."

The Spirit from March 2, 1941. Art by Will Eisner & letters by Sam Rosen.

"Conchy" by James Childress--a unique, fondly recalled strip about a beachcomber—first appeared on March 2, 1970. Here’s the debut strip:

In this six-panel strip, Flash disguises himself as a secret police officer & breaks into one of Ming's concentration camps. He then pretends to be conducting a special inspection by order of the Emporer. He is taken on a tour during which he witnesses examples of Ming's brutality until he is finally taken to the deepest dungeon where Dale and Zarkov are held in tiny torture cells.

Flash Gordon by Alex Raymond from March 6, 1941.

Cost is the main reason I don't have any yet. And why I only have a few of their Atlas books. But my love of Kane will probably motivate to get this one.