tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15027010055701696132024-03-04T13:18:26.392-05:00Out Of This WorldA Blog dedicated to the social historical analysis of comic books, particularly of the romance and war genres.KBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09745482563627003570noreply@blogger.comBlogger188125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502701005570169613.post-15715186211738727442017-12-31T14:50:00.003-05:002018-01-06T08:53:38.678-05:00British Girls' Romance Comics: Valentine 1st February 1969While on a recent trip to the UK, I visited Dave's Comics (<a href="http://www.davescomics.co.uk/">http://www.davescomics.co.uk/</a>) in the Lanes area of Brighton. The store is in a great, bohemian shopping area in downtown Brighton, with cafes, restaurants, and all kinds of vendors.<br />
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The thing that impressed me most about Dave's was the wide selection of back issues available at reasonable, realistic prices, aimed at encouraging rather than putting off the enthusiast. On top of that, the staff were very friendly and helpful. The store is on two floors:<br />
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There were a number of comics I would have liked to have bought, but I had to keep the bulk and weight of my luggage down, so I just opted for one comic that would be very hard to find back here in the USA.<br />
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There was a copy of Valentine hanging up on a wall display just as we entered the store, and that caught my eye. The condition wasn't so great, but I think it was well worth the £3 that I paid for it. Valentine is notable for featuring artwork by Spanish artists of the Selecciones Illustradas agency, and for stories based on the titles of popular songs. The one that I bought at Dave's was from 1969, so towards the end of Valentine's run. See what you think:<br />
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This first story looks like it was drawn by Enrique or Jorge Badia Romero, with lots of wild hair, bushy eyelashes, and very moody. Those large panels on pages two and four look like they might have been finished with a watercolor wash.<br />
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Following the opening story, the comic goes into a text-heavy section with short news articles about various stars, a two-page text story with some nice illustrations, more news and articles, and a couple of ads:<br />
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The next story again looks like the Badia Romero brothers. I'd hazard a guess that this is Jorge. Quite a treat:<br />
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The rest of the comic continues with more of the same mixture, articles focused on pop stars, interspersed with comics and some ads. But while we've seen the best of the artwork, the rest is still not too shabby:<br />
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And for old Diana Rigg fans... <br />
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For those of you interested in these Spanish artists of the 1950s and later, you will do no better than buying David Roach's book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Masters-Spanish-Comic-Book-Art/dp/1524101311/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1514745143&sr=8-1&keywords=Masters+Of+Spanish+Comic+Book+Art" target="_blank">Masters of Spanish Comic Book Art</a>. <br />
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<br />KBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09745482563627003570noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502701005570169613.post-4773201720288151332016-12-31T20:54:00.001-05:002017-01-01T19:49:20.491-05:00British Story Papers: Girls' Crystal #521 (October 13th, 1946)British comic papers were commonplace from the 1890s onward, and often consisted of some pages sequential art stories, i.e. actual comics, and some pages of text stories with or without an illustration. Alongside the comic papers were also <u>story papers</u>, that were composed solely of text stories that also might have an accompanying illustration. An interesting example of this kind of publication, interesting because it evolved into an actual comic later in its history, was <i>Girls' Crystal</i>. According to the <a href="http://ukcomics.wikia.com/wiki/Girls'_Crystal" target="_blank">UK Comics Wiki</a>, "<i>Girls' Crystal</i> (known as <i>The Crystal</i> for its first nine issues), was a weekly Amalgamated Press, later Fleetway, publication that debuted on 28 October 1935 as a story paper. On 21 March 1953 it was reconfigured as a comic, and it continued until 18 May 1963 when it was merged into <i>School Friend</i>." Note that examples of stories from the <a href="http://kb-outofthisworld.blogspot.com/2010/10/british-girls-comics-school-friend.html" target="_blank">1959 School Friend Annual</a> are featured on Out Of This World, and give a good idea of what Girls' Crystal became like as a comic.<br />
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The example of a Girls' Crystal story paper below shows that the front and back cover were printed with blue and red ink, while all other pages were in black ink only. Some of the stories were complete within one issue of the paper, while others, like 'The Merrymakers at College' in this issue, were ongoing serials. The paper/comic must have been popular, as it was published for 28 years! Here is issue 521 from October 13th, 1946:<br />
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The stories in this issue seem to be of the same ilk as those to be found in mid-twentieth century British girls' comics and story papers - very upper middle class, private school girls doing exciting stuff like searching for treasure, going ice skating in Canada, etc. The 'Merrymakers at College' serial is rather confusing to me, however. It appears to be set in America (upstate New York?) but everyone speaks with a dash of spiffing upper-crust British vernacular. When this issue of <i>Girls' Crystal</i> was published, many working class British girls (like my mother, for example, who was 13 at that time) were still dealing with rationing and the the rubble that was left all over London from the Blitz. The scenarios and characters presented in these stories would have been, in their own way, as other-worldly as science fiction - a fantasy world with a lifestyle that some maybe would have aspired to but which in reality was almost completely out of reach for most. But then isn't that the way that fantasy is supposed to work? We can all dream...</div>
<br />KBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09745482563627003570noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502701005570169613.post-9808579777534114472015-05-16T22:43:00.003-04:002015-05-16T22:54:35.324-04:00Early Black Comic Book Heroes: The Red Mask<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You'll have to forgive my ignorance but it is only just recently that I learned of the character that appears, by some accounts, to have been the first Black hero in comics. He was created by someone who signed his name as George West, and originally appeared in newspapers running Syndicated Features comics strips in 1936. These strips were subsequently collected and reprinted in <i>Best Comics</i> published by Pines (Standard) beginning in November 1939, and lasting for only four issues. Note the landscape format, very unusual in comics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That hero was the enigmatic Red Mask. Now if you have never encountered The Red Mask, as I hadn't until a few days ago, you may well be puzzled by the above cover of <i>Best Comics #2</i>. This is the only issue available online in the <a href="http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=8224" target="_blank">Digital Comic Museum</a>, but considering its rarity, we should consider ourselves very fortunate that the DCM has even one. According to the Gerber Comics Photojournal scarcity index, between 21 and 50 copies are estimated to exist of issues <a href="http://www.comics.org/issue/544/cover/4/" target="_blank">#1</a> and <a href="http://www.comics.org/issue/641/cover/4/" target="_blank">#4</a>, and there are no more than between 11 and 20 copies of <a href="http://www.comics.org/issue/567/cover/4/" target="_blank">#2</a> or <a href="http://www.comics.org/issue/611/cover/4/" target="_blank">#3</a> (these figures obtained from <a href="http://www.cgccomics.com/news/enews/2009/May/article6.asp" target="_blank">Michelle Nolan's 'Niche'</a> on the CGC website and also from eBay).What you see on this cover of #2 above is The Red Mask depicted as a white person protecting a white female (Nina) and a young white male (Danny) from hostile native tribesmen. However, the character is most definitely intended to be Black, as evidenced by the cover of <i>Best Comics #1</i> and by the strips themselves. Unfortunately there is some visual racist stereotyping of the Black native people in this comic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The cover of <i>Best Comics #1</i> is featured on <a href="http://www.comicvine.com/best-comics-1-featuring-adventures-of-the-red-mask/4000-137160/" target="_blank">Comic Vine</a> and the <a href="http://www.comics.org/issue/544/cover/4/" target="_blank">Grand Comics Database</a>, and if you go to either of those websites using the links provided, you will see that The Red Mask is most definitely a Black person. A complete understanding of this important comic is elusive, however, not just because of its rarity. The fact is that some of the pages have panels in which The Red Mask is colored white, sometimes as sort of half black, and in the majority that I can find he looks Black. As comic strip expert <a href="http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-comics-of-syndicated-features.html" target="_blank">Allan Holtz</a> points out, The Red Mask has wavy, non-African hair. Only 26 episodes of the strip were ever published, with the story left hanging, so we'll never know for sure what was going to be the eventual outcome. Holtz thinks that The Red Mask was most likely the white guy, Jason Armitage, who went missing a year previously, and whom the other white people in the story are searching for. Holtz's explanation for The Red Mask being black is that he has been in the jungle for a while and developed a deep tan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">However, I am inclined to believe that The Red Mask was intended to be the Black person he was portrayed as. The story is not necessarily set in Africa. We are told the setting is "the South Seas," and the action seems to be taking place initially on an island, Kaukura. So the fact that The Red Mask's hair is not African-looking isn't necessarily a problem. I also think that the explanation for the change in coloration of The Red Mask's skin on the covers of <i>Best Comics #2</i>, <i>#3</i>, & <i>#4</i>, and on the interior pages, were down to an inexperienced and/or uninformed colorist. After all, over 20 years later the same kind of error happened with the cover of Marvel's <i>Sgt. Fury #1</i> - Gabriel Jones, the African American Howling Commando was depicted with white skin on that cover by mistake. Racist reactions to <i>Best Comics</i> could also have been the reason why a deliberate change in the Red Mask's color was made on the covers of the books after issue #1, and also on some interior pages.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The earliest episode of The Red Mask newspaper strip that's available in color on the internet is <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP7Ygt3nixYeT2szPY1up1Cg9tqBtYbEWbgKu9ZkQsd6PULysRCi3pTtQ98aUibygkq1YMDBwFm5vVimb8J2Jb0X5PSwUbSl_8XM9_ZapjWAbx9nOmIaEHl_iq-LMihPpZCBA3rA_CF2A/s1600/Adventures+Of+The+Red+Mask2.jpg" target="_blank">#6</a>, which is posted on Allan Holtz's blog, <a href="http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">The Stripper's Guide</a>. This would have been reprinted in <i>Best Comics #1</i>, which had episodes 1 through 7. <i>Best Comics #2</i> has episodes 8 through 13, and one can speculate that the remaining 13 episodes were split between issues #3 (probably episodes 14 through 20) and #4 (probably episodes 21 through 26). Since The Red Mask was the main feature in <i>Best Comics</i>, and the strip had ceased publication in newspapers prior to <i>Best Comics</i> reprinting them, one has to conclude that Pines/Standard had no intention of publishing more than 4 issues, that is, unless they had another main feature ready to take its place but the sales weren't good enough to justify continuing. Allan Holtz has the last episode, <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzFTMjRsobkD1kWXpzjvxTE6WJSAxB4EV7IuzhjcLDCW19FoRr7EObPorDDNLmQTr_iqUsU1xmutBo3qqlI-h6p5t7VKzOo_B9yy8tHaAxi9C3gazLpy6OUTT1FUo2wxHAHAJ5pGRk_d0/s1600/Adventures+Of+The+Red+Mask+%2326+1-14-37.jpg" target="_blank">#26</a>, on his blog, along with black and white microfiche images of episodes <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZfWAwhOAPVnOxnWKzeQ7D4PxY5UR-IjPMa65AllDOnIrer4ZVKatHkgQMIw90pJfQqh5Cc529mkaA83jfLfRlU27Q-PQjAXXX4yo1N9GIMaA-qL-_NF7zy_BH0VjiwSjHx8yV0LgXEeE/s1600/Adventures+of+the+Red+Mask3-Microfilm.png" target="_blank">#1</a> and <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0JBNCOHMAsvfpagK8tCfdjTe6skV-9CzaOoV9pjsYx5iSD5ZasZhQlgq51BolV0_ZWijy-EALQj_c6VW1bsdn2W6htvLpKB9U5vglU-k0ywB4QEQBTefzdLrXwPrnxy5cICkSi3Sr8JA/s1600/Adventures+of+the+Red+Mask4-Microfilm.png" target="_blank">#2</a>, as well as a color image of episode <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHmeWh8_dqTAy-lnlyb1zjgmgV69fZyzuYfpR4pMyPupP280ZLC_DGeq8xiXDa8ftBp_n6UkmzeRH-yIzJB8ZIBJqKQTqpaBei7MpHN6IuLoMWUEgIp52pCOg9WoS0iXD1WGHDjD8dNfU/s1600/Adventures+Of+The+Red+Mask.jpg" target="_blank">#20</a>. Episodes 8 through 13 are as follows:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The story seems to be that Colonel Trent, along with Robert Fear and some other men, as well as Nina and Danny, came on the Colonel's yacht in search of Jason Armitage, who disappeared in the area a year before. The Red Mask is really Maui, chief of a native tribe. I can see why Allan Holtz thinks that ultimately we would have found out that Maui/The Red Mask is in fact Jason Armitage. Then there's the mysterious Grotto of Jewels, lair of the Sacred Monster. The action in the above pages seems to be occurring on two fronts: inland with The Red Mask's tribe, and with the 'Coastal Tribe,' who have captured the Colonel and the others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Similarities with <i>The Phantom</i>, which also debuted in newspapers in 1936, have been noted, but of course <i>The Phantom</i> is still going strong today, and he is most definitely a white man. The Red Mask has slipped into obscurity until recently. We'll likely never know the truth behind the story of The Red Mask, but there is certainly a case for him being the first Black hero in comics!</span>KBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09745482563627003570noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502701005570169613.post-53558564319298923792015-05-01T13:52:00.000-04:002015-05-04T11:13:22.103-04:00Spaghetti Western Fumetti: TexWhile western comics went out of fashion in the late 1970s here in America, in Italy the genre is not only alive and healthy, but thriving. The top-selling western, and one of the most popular comics in Italy, is the long-running title, <i>Tex. </i>Ongoing since 1948, with current print runs in excess of 200,000 copies per issue, it lasted far longer than even the longest running American western titles, such as DC's <i>Western Comics</i> or Marvel's <i>Kid Colt</i>! At its peak it was selling 700,000 per month! There is actually nothing comparable to this giant in the western genre in the USA and I'm guessing anywhere else. Ironically, the characters in <i>Tex</i> present a far more accurate picture of the true diversity of the Wild West than American western comics ever did. We see Black, Mexican, American Indian, and white cowboys working together, as it was in the real history of the West, but not as most twentieth century media portrayed it. Moreover, these characters are presented respectfully, with some hint at the true depth and complexity of American Indian culture. Racism is not prominent in this Wild West, just as in the real West of America, when it was beyond the borders of the Union, and even up until Jim Crow began to bite, when Black people could start a new life relatively less encumbered by the oppression prevalent in the States.<br />
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And these are not small comics, in terms of pages. Not the more modern issues anyway. They're each as long as an American graphic novel! <i>Tex</i> was originally created by Giovanni Luigi Bonelli (writer) and Aurelio Galleppini (artist). I believe the editor, Sergio Bonelli, is quite a celebrity in Italy. Of the dozens of artists who have worked on the book during its 67 year history, only one appears to be American - the great Joe Kubert was the guest artist on <i>Tex Special</i> #15 (I'm getting my information from the Italian Wikipedia at this point!).<br />
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Tex Willer is a leader in the Navajo tribe, having married a Navajo woman, Lilyth. So Arizona of the 1880s is the main setting in the original comics, but over the years stories have taken place in surrounding areas such as New Mexico and Texas, and far further afield places like Alaska and Colombia.<br />
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Here's a couple of examples that I collected on recent trips to Venice. The first is one that I found in a second hand bookstore. It is a large, 240 page, <i>Tex Annual</i> #27 from 2012. Only the covers are in color, but the interior black and white art is exquisite. The cover and interior art of this one is by Fabio Civitelli, the story by Mauro Boselli. The title of the story literally seems to be "The Ride of the Dead," but it could be more like "The Trail of the Dead."<br />
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My Italian is practically non-existent, so I can only actually read the comic using Google Translate, a very slow and unsure process. Nevertheless, I've picked a couple of interesting looking pages (120 & 121) and tried to translate. Here goes:<br />
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Cowboy #1: Fire, hombres!<br />
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Tex: Vermin! They're shooting at us! On the ground, brother! Behind that rock!<br />
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Cowboy #1: We've got them!<br />
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Tiger Jack: There's six of them! We can't...<br />
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Tex: Those first shots were meant to kill, Tiger! Those could be Flores' cowboys!<br />
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Tiger Jack: Bah! In my opinion this is a waste of lead!<br />
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Cowboy #1: Lightning!<br />
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Tex: Stop! Or we'll start getting serious!<br />
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Cowboy #2: Madre de Dios!<br />
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Cowboy #1: They shoot like devils! What do we do, Ray?<br />
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Ray: There's not much we can do! We went in without thinking and now we're at their mercy! Let's hear what they have to say!<br />
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Tex: Are you the cowboys from "Agua Escondidas" ["Hidden Water"]?<br />
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Over the next few pages Tex and his blood brother, the Navajo Tiger Jack, appear to make friends with this group of initially hostile cowboys. I didn't try to translate these next example pages (144 & 145) but a lot can be inferred from the visuals:<br />
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That annual had magazine-size pages. The monthly issues of <i>Tex,</i> however, are Italian digest-size, a little bit larger than the American digest (e.g. the Archie digests). Here's an excerpt from <i>Tex Monthly</i> #639 from January, 2014. The title is "In the Slums of San Francisco." My translation here is probably worse than the one above, but hopefully gives some idea as to what is being said.<br />
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Some more of the main or support characters in the series are featured here. There's Tex's son, Kit Willer, and also Lefty Potrero, an ex-fighter who owns the Hercules Gymnasium in San Francisco (in the story).<br />
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Tiger Jack: For Manito! They're talking about a woman hostage! Who can she be? I have to go back to warn Kit and Donen! But not now! People are coming!<br />
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Strongman#1: Here's the place!<br />
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Lefty: A real den of rats!<br />
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Strongman#2: Don't wait to... [totally unsure what this means]<br />
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Lefty: Quiet boys! You have to use your brain here, not your muscles!<br />
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Lefty: If we're not careful, these particular rodents would scram under our noses... and I don't think in that case Tex would be very grateful.<br />
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Strongman#1 [Bingo]: But if we go in acting normal and look around?<br />
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Kit: That's Lefty Potrero and his strongmen from the Gym! What the hell are they doing? If they all go in there together they will arouse suspicion!<br />
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Donen: You can't tell them what to do, Kit. The success of the plan depends on whether you and I can always stay in the shadows!<br />
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Kit: And are your motives true, Donen? Thirst for adventure and desire for revenge? Or because you are ready to join the army of God?<br />
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Donen: Why did you agree to it if you doubt me so much, Kit?<br />
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Kit: My father trusts you... and then... you're not the only one who loves the thrill of the unexpected, amigo!<br />
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Lefty: Okay! You're right, Bingo! Enter in groups of two or three to avoid attracting too much attention... and keep your eyes peeled for those four in the description, guys!<br />
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Notice how the whispering on p.58 between Kit and Donen is indicated by word balloons with a hashed line!<br />
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Well, I hope you all found something interesting in this introduction to an Italian institution! For further introductory reading on Italian fumetti please check out the following Out Of This World blog posts:<br />
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<a href="http://kb-outofthisworld.blogspot.com/2014/05/on-trail-of-fumetti.html" target="_blank">On the Trail of Fumetti</a><br />
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<a href="http://kb-outofthisworld.blogspot.com/2010/10/spaghetti-western-fumetti-lanciostory-5.html" target="_blank">Spaghetti Western Fumetti: Lanciostory A.5 #26 - "Come Coda di Volpe Divenne Bandito"</a><br />
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Out Of This World leaves you with a selection of Tex covers from the 1960s and 70s. Enjoy!<br />
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<br />KBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09745482563627003570noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502701005570169613.post-42201342670391947412015-02-28T21:40:00.000-05:002016-07-04T11:23:31.761-04:00British Girls' Romance Comics: Marilyn 3rd June 1961<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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British girls' comics of the 1950s through 70s consisted of a complex, stratified assortment of publications designed for specific age-related markets. In retrospect, the most famous became Jackie, which has been discussed previously on this blog. According to James Chapman in his <i>British Comics: A Cultural History:</i><br />
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<i>Jackie</i> formed a bridge "between juvenile girls' comics and another group of publications that appeared in the late 1950s and early 1960s. These were the so-called 'romance' comics exemplified by Amalgamated's <i>Marilyn</i> (1955-65), <i>Valentine</i> (1957-74), and <i>Roxy</i> (1958-63), Pearson's <i>Mirabelle</i> (1956-77), Thomson's <i>Romeo</i> (1957-74), and City Magazines' <i>Boyfriend</i> (1959-66). These titles were intended for older girls (the over-sixteens) and for a short time in the early 1960s they enjoyed significant popularity: <i>Valentine</i> (407,000), <i>Romeo</i> (329,000), <i>Marilyn</i> (314,000), and <i>Mirabelle</i> (224,000) were the best-selling titles (Chapman, 2011).<br />
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That's a lot of comics, especially considering they were weekly! But so few seem to have survived. These comics are so rare nowadays that collecting a complete set would be extremely difficult, and very costly. In this post we're going to take a look at a copy of <i>Marilyn</i>, the June 3rd 1961 issue, and dissect it to see what it's made of.<br />
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Of particular note is that the first story starts out on the front cover (see above), which seems to have been the norm for the Amalgamated titles (see <a href="http://kb-outofthisworld.blogspot.com/2010/10/british-girls-romance-comics-valentine.html" target="_blank">Valentine 21st December 1963</a> on Out of This World). Counting the cover, this is a four-pager, untitled, but the art is signed and possibly by the famous Spanish comic artist José de Huéscar. It is certainly a fine piece of work. The story seems to be a cautionary tale because we see Julie (lamenting at another woman's wedding on the front cover) lose the man who loved her, because she wanted too much in the way of material comforts, that he couldn't guarantee on his honest, livable, but working class wage.<br />
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Page 5 features advice for young Beat ladies with fair complexions, with the summer just upon them. From what I remember we did have quite a good summer that year in the UK, so it was a timely intervention by the publisher!<br />
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While the first story in the comic was complete in four pages, the next is a two page installment in an ongoing court drama and love story. Very nice artwork. Different style.<br />
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This next one pager seems to be a regular feature. Tab's a bit of a ladies man, and he has them competing for his attention by having a bake off!<br />
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Next, a good old romance comic horoscope, plus an ad for hair dye!<br />
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Next, a three page story, another cautionary tale, in which a girl learns a hard lesson when she uses one boy to make another jealous. The artwork, identified by blogger James Zee, is by <a href="http://www.tebeosfera.com/autores/eugenio_giner.html" target="_blank">Eugenio Giner Martí</a> who worked for Spain's Selecciones Illustradas agency.<br />
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Next, a full page ad for ODO-RO-NO roll-on deodorant - terrific stuff!!!<br />
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Next, a four page text story interspersed with ads and advice on the latest hot platters! British comics, more so than American, are an amalgam of sequential art and text features, so this is British comic tradition. Blogger Phil Rushton tentatively identifies the illustration as the work of prolific British comics artist of the period, Robert MacGillivray.<br />
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More nice artwork in this next three page story in which Pam finally finds true love! Thank goodness for that! With all the cautionary tales so far I was thinking there would be few happy endings in this issue!<br />
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The next page... well, I have to be honest, I have never heard of the Allisons. It looks like they were trying to be a British version of the Everly Brothers, but their sound had a strong Buddy Holly influence. My wife remembers their song "Are You Sure", which made second place in the 1961 Eurovision Song Contest, and she knows all the words! Oh, and girls, don't forget to grab your copy of <i>Honey</i>! Don't be the one left out!<br />
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This next one also seems to be an ongoing saga - "The Heart of a Teenage Girl." Plenty of angst here, and also some fine artwork. Lovely last panel.<br />
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The half page ad on this next page tells you that males were not expected to be reading this comic. And they probably, for the most part, did not, in the gender polarized world of the early 1960s. What seems strange looking back, but maybe not, is that there was no equivalent to romance comics for teenage boys, nothing that dealt with relationships anyway. If you were into the military, sports, espionage, or imagining life as a space traveler, there was something for young males.<br />
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Quarter page ads for other romance comics by the publisher - <i>Roxy</i>, which as you can see looks similar to <i>Marilyn</i>, and the latest issue of <i>Love Story Library</i> - this is a digest-size romance title like the ones featured recently here on Out Of This World - complete this page.<br />
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This next is an interesting version of the problem page. It presents some problematic teenage behavior and asks the reader to contemplate it. The more standard 'agony aunt' type exchange with readers is at the bottom of the page.<br />
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This last story is only two pages, and starts out like it's part of an ongoing saga. If so, this is the last installment of this particular story. The art is signed 'Julian' - identified by blogger James Zee as <a href="http://www.tebeosfera.com/autores/julian_morote_ribero.html" target="_blank">Julian Morote</a>, another artist of the Selecciones Illustradas agency in Spain.<br />
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The back cover features a photo of Edd Byrnes, the star of the American TV series <i>77 Sunset Strip</i>, reflecting the tremendous influence of American pop culture on British audiences at that time.<br />
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And that's it. 28 pages for five old UK pennies, while American comics were 10 cents in the USA and nine old UK pennies in the UK, so nearly double the price. The British girls also read American romance comics, but with the British weeklies they had more to look forward to because of frequency of publication. If you include all the digest sized British romance comics, I'd say there were a lot more British romance comics being published than American at that time. You saw from the figures earlier that their print runs were equivalent to their American competitors, but at least four times more frequent! In Aladins Bookshop on Hornsey Road, Islington, in London where I used to buy my second hand comics from the proprietor, Shirley, with her blonde Dusty Springfield beehive hairstyle, in the 1960s when I was a kid, there were large numbers of the digest type British romance comics of all types, probably more available than the American comics I was looking for. But it's all gone with the wind... ...and on the subject of all things eventually having to pass...<br />
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R.I.P.<br />
Leonard Nimoy.</div>
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May your voyage home to your final destination be full of beauty, bliss, and knowledge.</div>
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Thank you for everything you gave us.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Jim Lawrence an<span style="font-family: inherit;">d </span></span>Jorge Longarón<span style="font-family: inherit;">'s</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Friday Foster</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> newspaper strip ran for about four years and featured the exploits of the vivacious photographer, whose life was a constant stream of drama and events. </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Friday Foster</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> was the first syndicated strip to feature an African American female lead character, although Black female leads did exist decades before in the form of, for example, Torchy Brown in </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Heartbeats</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> by Jackie Ormes, which was printed in the </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Pittsburgh Courier</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">. But <i>Friday Foster</i> represents a real leap forward on the road towards an accurate depiction of diversity in American comics, besides being a quality strip with fabulous artwork.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The <i>Friday Foster</i> stories included a romantic component, and the strip could be argued to belong to the romance genre as much as any other. The above example is from the <i>Chicago Tribune</i> in the strip's first year - the date is 11/29/1970. Friday gets out of Harlem and ends up being something of a globetrotter, and her adventures are not restricted to being a photographer. She gets involved in all kinds of goings on. Here's a couple of consecutive Sunday strips from 1971 (3/14 and 3/21) in which Friday is unknowingly getting herself enmeshed with members of the criminal underworld:</span></div>
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In these next excerpts, from 1972, Friday encounters a big shot Broadway actor, Dirk Maroon, while on a fashion shoot in the Caribbean (07/30):<br />
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By the following Sunday, Friday is resisting Dirk's charms, even though those around her seem to think he's a great guy:<br />
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But... poor Friday! By the end of the month she's caved in to the pressure, and allowed herself to fall for the player's charms, only to have her heart broken:<br />
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The 1972 Sunday strips are too large for my scanner so that's why I'm only showing part of each. These last few illustrate nicely how <i>Friday Foster</i> fits into the romance genre. The single Dell comic book version of Friday Foster was featured a little under a year ago in the premier romance blog, <a href="http://sequentialcrush.blogspot.com/2014/02/unlikely-romance-dells-friday-foster.html" target="_blank">Sequential Crush</a>, and I direct readers there for Jacque Nodell's coverage of that Joe Gill/Jack Sparling rarity.<br />
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I can only echo Jacque's lament that there was just the one comic book, and add that there is no reprint collection of these superb newspaper strips either - it's long overdue <a href="http://www.darkhorse.com/Books" target="_blank">Dark Horse</a> or <a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/" target="_blank">Fantagraphics</a>, if you're listening!!! Collecting the comic strips is an expensive business. I haven't come across any of the daily strips for sale on eBay, but the Sundays go for around $3 to $5 each, or more!<br />
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There's more information about the strip here and there on the Internet. For example:<br />
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<a href="http://davekarlenoriginalartblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/buried-treasure-lawrence-longarons.html" target="_blank">Dave Karlan's Original Art Blog</a><br />
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Some nice example of the original art are featured on the comicartfans galleries and marketplace:<br />
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<a href="http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1130382" target="_blank">comicartfans</a><br />
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Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed savoring the wonderful artwork of Jorge Longarón. 'Til next time...KBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09745482563627003570noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502701005570169613.post-55550248531357397902014-10-09T10:52:00.001-04:002022-08-23T02:18:08.677-04:00British Romance Comics: Love Story Picture Library 1333 - "Drop-out"Having said recently that I saw a significant difference between British and American romance comics, I have to eat my words now. This short story is from 1976's <i>Love Story Picture Library #1333.</i> I've no idea who the artist is, although there are some things about it that remind me of a crude version of something Demetrio might have drawn. The story runs pretty much true to the sort of simple and well-tried plot you'd find in contemporary Charlton romance books from this side of the pond. It's one of those 'he turns out to be not quite what he initially seems to be' stories about a respectable and fairly level-headed girl who falls for a beach bum. See what you think.<br />
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<br />KBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09745482563627003570noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502701005570169613.post-12918231127889912492014-10-04T12:29:00.000-04:002015-02-10T04:04:39.990-05:00British Romance Comics: Love Story Picture Library 752 - "Sheriffs Mustn't Cry"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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As soon as Bernice enters Rockbottom, she's commandeered by the local sheriff, who needs her assistance in going after a thief. There's just been a robbery, and it's a car and a chauffeur he needs. Bernice figures she might as well help out. They catch up with the crook, but things don't work out too well for the sheriff. He gets wounded and the crook gets away. Bernice runs to help the sheriff...<br />
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The town's new sheriff is a big hit with the locals. They've never had a lady sheriff before, and a pretty one to boot! The local newspaper editor sees an opportunity to boost his circulation, and figures he'll start by helping Bernice look the part...<br />
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While the Federal Marshall figures out a plan of action to deal with this unorthodox development, the newspaper man has gone to press with some fabricated background stories of the supposed crime-busting exploits of the new sheriff:<br />
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Meanwhile the Marshall has appointed a new sheriff himself, Jed, and sent him to Rockbottom to clear up the mess, at this point unbeknownst to Bernice, who hasn't forgotten that she initially came there to sell cosmetics:<br />
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Bernice finds herself falling head over heels for Jed. There's not much going on in Rockbottom for a young couple looking for places to hang out together, so they go off for a ride into the desert, which turns out to be a suitably romantic option:<br />
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But when Bernice finds out Jed came to replace her as the sheriff, and Jed realizes that Bernice is the illegally-appointed sheriff he's been sent to oust, a spanner is thrown into the cog-wheels of their romance. Bernice insists that she'll walk the 10 miles back to town, but Jed's macho, chauvinistic, traditionally sexist world view convinces him that forcibly grabbing Bernice and bringing her back to town is an appropriate course of action. Bernice lets him know otherwise when they get back to Rockbottom:<br />
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Press man Brad Nolan has a new idea that he thinks will help Bernice, and sell more papers. He's arranged for an election in the town for sheriff. The next day...<br />
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Then there's another unexpected turn. The festivities surrounding the election provide the perfect cover for a bank robbery. And guess who the townsfolk are expecting to apprehend the thief? Bernice accepts her responsibility, and drives off in pursuit of the robber in her classic Cadillac. She realizes that it is probably the same thief she was originally deputized to help bring to justice. It doesn't take long for her to figure that she's out of her league, but of course Jed wouldn't let her face such danger alone:<br />
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The robber steals Bernice's Cadillac and heads back to town, to the railroad yard. Jed has his man in his sights, however. With the bad guy behind bars, we can have ourselves a wedding! All ends well for our happy couple, and the newspaper has another front page story! Hopefully Bernice won't have too much trouble getting a green card and eventually American citizenship!<br />
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Amazingly, that was all based on a true story! Well, it could happen, couldn't it!? So, any ideas on who the artist of this little masterpiece was?KBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09745482563627003570noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502701005570169613.post-46310920332336892122014-10-03T12:28:00.001-04:002014-10-04T16:06:17.753-04:00British Romance Comics: Love Story Picture Library 1336 - "Tell Me Why"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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While visiting England earlier this year I was lucky enough to purchase a few of the digest-size British romance comics. The ten I found were from the 1960s and early 70s, and most of them belonged to the <i>Love Story Picture Library</i> series published by Fleetway. What was great about these finds was that some of them contained some very nice artwork that looked like it was by Spanish artists. Here's one. <i>Love Story Picture Library</i> # 1336 has, unlike many of these comics, one long story and a shorter story at the end (usually there's just one longer story filling the book). The total page count is 68 pages, starting at the outside front cover, so stories typically start on page 3. "Tell Me Why" is a 9-page short story at the end of the book, and as you can see it is not the cover story for this issue. This issue is from 1976, but it says inside that it was originally published in 1970, and I'd guess it probably had a different cover then. Eight new issues were published by Fleetway on the first Monday of every month, according to an ad inside. When I was a kid and buying comics in the 1960s, my main go-to was Aladins Book Shop up the top of Hornsey Road in Islington in London. It was run by Shirley and her husband Alan, and I remember that they had a huge selection of these romance books along with all the other second-hand comics, pulps, and paperbacks. Of course, at the time I was buying <i>The Flash</i> and <i>Mystery in Space</i>, but those rows and rows of British romance comics are far harder to find nowadays than their more well-known American counterparts, and contain some surprising gems. Anyway, here's the 9-page story in its entirety. Any guesses on the artist? It's fairly roughly hewn, but it looks kind of familiar!<br />
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The <i>Little Rascals</i> series is post-Code, so there is far less likelihood that any demeaning stereotyping of minorities would be present. The original <i>Our Gang</i> series has been reprinted in a very nice four-volume set by <a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/browse-shop/our-gang.html?vmcchk=1" target="_blank">Fantagraphics Books</a> - as I was not so interested in the funny animal content of the original comics I saved myself a bundle by buying the reprint books, which only contain the <i>Our Gang</i> stories.KBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09745482563627003570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502701005570169613.post-50505657116937476252014-05-12T14:32:00.001-04:002014-05-12T14:32:16.950-04:00On the Trail of FumettiOn a recent visit to Venice, one of the things I investigated was the availability of fumetti (comics). In the USA we can usually no longer find comics on newsstands, but that's not the case in Italy. There are actual newsstands dotted all over the place in Venice. They sell all sorts of stuff, some leaning more heavily towards trinkets and souvenirs than others, but quite a few (not all) carry a small selection of Italian comics.<br />
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At this one (above) on the Grand Canal, opposite the Ferrovia (railway station), comics weren't much in evidence, but there were a couple of <i>Lanciostory</i> and <i>Skorpio</i> issues tucked in among all the magazines - if you were wanting comics you would find them.<br />
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This newsstand (below) on a back street canal did have a little shelf full of comics, but it was round the side, where the steps over the bridge are in the picture.<br />
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The best place I found for new comics, though, was the newsagents at the railway station (Ferrovia). No shortage of sequential art here!<br />
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In among this wide assortment of fumetti you can see the March 2014 issue of <a href="http://www.fumetto-online.it/it/ricerca_editore_novita.php?EDITORE=PANINI%20COMICS&COLLANA=INDISTRUTTIBILE%20HULK" target="_blank">Indistruttibile Hulk</a>, along with more Italian fare, like <i>Tex</i>, the classic spaghetti western, as well as the latest issues of <i>Lanciostory</i> and <i>Skorpio</i>. The latter looked a good deal to me, packaged as it was with a free issue dedicated to the character Dago, all for less than 3 Euros. My only disappointment was that there just don't seem to be any romance titles. Back at the hotel I eagerly unpacked my <i>Skorpio</i> and savored the artwork - my Italian is too abysmal for me to actually read the comic without putting it all into Google Translate!<br />
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For back issues, I came across a second hand bookstore, located on the Calle dell'Olio, No 2423. You don't see anything but books and bric-a-brac when you arrive there, but just ask the owner (the guy in the striped sweater) and he'll produce a few piles of comics for you to sort through. I looked at <i>Lanciostory</i>, <i>Skorpio</i>, and <i>Tex</i>, and bought a couple of <i>Tex</i> for 1 Euro each and two <i>Skorpio</i> for 50 cents each. Not bad.<br />
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A closer look at the March 20th 2014 edition of Skorpio (it's weekly!!!) that I bought in the train station reveals that it contains no less than 118 pages not counting the covers, and most of those pages are comics (very few ads, and then only ads for comics). On top of this there's a 12 page Dago insert, plus the bonus 98-page black and white <i>Dago</i> comic! The pages of Skorpio are smooth, reasonably good quality paper. Part of the comic is in color, the rest black and white. There are 10 different ongoing series in the one comic, representing a wide variety of genres.<br />
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Inside, the first story is Amanda (featured on the cover above), written by Robin Wood and drawn by Alfredo Falugi. I learned elsewhere that this is an Argentinian comic, and that it has been going since 1995! Also from what I read elsewhere, the story is told from a female perspective. It's Good Girl Art (GGA), and reminds me a bit of Image's <i>Danger Girl</i> without so many guns.<br />
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There are a number of historical stories in this issue of <i>Skorpio</i>, with <i>Dago</i> by Robin Wood being one of those - looks like a 19th Century tale of love and war, with nice artwork reminiscent in places of the great Joe Kubert.<br />
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There's a police strip featuring football (soccer), a sci-fi, and one about Brooklyn firefighters. And there's a couple of good old Spaghetti Westerns! <i>Il Grande Freddo</i> is written by Andrea Mantelli and Paolo Ongaro, and drawn by Ongaro - very atmospheric:<br />
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Another Western, <i>Blueberry</i>, is one I saw complete books of at the train station. Nice color comic by Francois Corteggiani and Michel Blanc-Dumont:<br />
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These comics are in many ways very different from what we have in the USA. Multi-genre in one book. Mixture of b&w and color. Lots of pages. Cheap! <i>Skorpio</i> is definitely aimed at an adult audience. Clearly the Italians still like reading westerns whereas in the States that's a thing of the past. Italian comics seem to have more global content. If only I could read Italian!KBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09745482563627003570noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502701005570169613.post-14195492590016207552014-04-02T07:33:00.001-04:002014-04-02T07:33:08.465-04:00Jorge Badia Romero? Charlton's Time for Love 47: "Dream Come True"<br />
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According to the <a href="http://www.comics.org/issue/169550/" target="_blank">Grand Comics Database</a>, the cover of the last issue of Charlton's <i>Time for Love</i>, # 47, and the interior story, <i>Dream Come True</i>, are by Jorge Badia Romero. I'm not an expert on the Spanish artists who worked on American and European romance comics from the period (1960s through 70s), but to me I see some elements of this piece that look like either Jose Gonzalez or Enrique Badia Romero. In fact I'm led to suspect that maybe more than one artist contributed to this story. What do you think?<br />
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Derek cuts a formal profile but he's also a bit of a smooth talker, albeit a genuine one.<br />
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Quite good story. I like the resolution to the dilemma. Very nice artwork - intriguing, tantalizing. Jorge Badia Romero - new discovery for me!KBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09745482563627003570noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502701005570169613.post-44405741438173160852014-03-26T15:46:00.001-04:002014-03-26T15:46:56.716-04:00British Girls' Comics: Diana Annual 1975 and 1974 - Fabulous Four by Enrique Badia Romero<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkwCdsPKQFu8w8MrrT-SC0gCZ5w3Erb_3hf14u9XnJyFLYG78MbAxNn7QjXJcZE6F2c8mWUwqEsi33YOhyphenhyphenp7TvE4_CTyieDMzeSx3zw6fhRI0XOAczn_jE-NYfqiiJK7Sw_1e39rS8sePn/s1600/Diana1975066.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkwCdsPKQFu8w8MrrT-SC0gCZ5w3Erb_3hf14u9XnJyFLYG78MbAxNn7QjXJcZE6F2c8mWUwqEsi33YOhyphenhyphenp7TvE4_CTyieDMzeSx3zw6fhRI0XOAczn_jE-NYfqiiJK7Sw_1e39rS8sePn/s1600/Diana1975066.jpg" height="640" width="434" /></a>With every little bit I learn about the Spanish artists who worked for British and American comics in the 1960s and 70s, the more I realize that I don't know. These artists were/are simultaneously often very expert and accomplished in terms of the work they produced, but remain relatively poorly known, except for one or two. Enrique Badia Romero is one of the better known, but understanding even his work is complicated by the fact that he had a brother who was also a comic artist with a very similar style. Out Of This World has previously featured examples of Romero's work on British girls' annuals, and here's a couple more. First is the Fabulous Four story from the 1975 <i>Diana Annual</i>. When I try to define what it is that makes it Romero, I gravitate to the bushy eyelashes, the wisps of out-of-control hair, the liberally-applied eye shadow, and the pouting lips. But as those of you who like the work of Spanish artists will know, Romero isn't the only one whose women are rendered in this fashion. We're sometimes down to very subtle differences in the 'Spanish' or 'Catalan' style. And with these artists often not signing their work, the problem can get complex. So I have to say that I think, I'm pretty sure, this is Enrique Badia Romero, but I can't be 100% sure unless David Roach agrees! One thing is for sure, 'Spanish' artists deserve wider recognition for the work they did in Britain and the USA.<br />
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Now here's the 1974 <i>Diana Annual</i> Fabulous Four story. Was it the first? I don't know. The art looks similar to the 1975 story, but different at the same time. Does it represent an earlier phase in the evolution of the same artist? Is it more restrained, deliberately, because the artist was attempting to test the water? The characters certainly look younger. Is it by Romero's brother? Different inker? What do you think?<br />
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I don't have any more <i>Diana</i> annuals, so I think that's the last we'll be looking at the Fabulous Four here on Out Of This World. But watch out for more work by Spanish artists in upcoming posts.KBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09745482563627003570noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502701005570169613.post-39608068698140886862014-02-08T11:35:00.001-05:002014-02-08T11:59:30.440-05:00Enrique Badia Romero - Axa, from Il Mago #96, March 1980Enrique Badia Romero is best known for his newspaper strips, especially <i>Modesty Blaise</i>. His work on <i>Axa</i> probably comes in second in terms of recognition, but as you can see from the examples below, it's superb. These are three pages from a section of newspaper strip reprints in an Italian fumetto called <i>Il Mago</i> from around about 1980. There are (or should I say were) reprint collections available in English and some are still obtainable at non-astronomical prices on Amazon, but I guess they are all way out of print. Time for Fantagraphics to put together a new edition?<br />
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I don't know about you but I want to know what happens next! The sword and sorcery genre, which Axa seems to be part of, is one of a number of Bronze Age innovations or revivals that mark a shift in comic reader tastes happening at the end of the 1960s and into the 70s. That change doesn't seem to be coincidental, given the goings on in society - Civil Rights, Feminism, anti-war movements, and general discontent with what had been the status quo. The beginnings of the Bronze Age in comics appears to be a period worthy of further in-depth study, for both its creative achievements as well as what it might tell us about our society at that important time. As I have been focusing over the last few years on desegregation in American comics, that much has become increasingly apparent the more I study.KBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09745482563627003570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502701005570169613.post-63674915286705955812014-01-12T18:55:00.001-05:002014-01-12T20:15:25.483-05:00Diversity in Comics - ANC#1: Sugarfoot - The Complete StoryWith the uploading of a complete scan of All-Negro Comics #1 to the Digital Comics Museum recently, we've got the opportunity to take a critical look at each of the stories contained therein. The main stories are all by different artists, with this one, "Sugarfoot" by someone who just signs himself or herself 'Cravat'. It's a well-written short funny story of 8 pages. Sugarfoot and Snake Oil are a couple of homeless guys on the road, on the look-out for a free meal. There's distinct dialect used in this story, with the dialog written to include slang and pronunciation locating the duo and the family they encounter somewhere in the Southern USA.<br />
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The song that Sugarfoot is singing could be a corrupted version of Washboard Sam's "Soap and Water Blues" that was recorded in February 1947 (ANC#1 was published in mid-1947), but those lines aren't found in the lyrics. The closest is "I've got a gal shaped like a frog" so the connection is highly speculative.<br />
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The previous page introduces a gag that runs through the rest of the story - Sugarfoot saying that Ample is something or other, and she trying to get across to him that her name is actually Ample. Sugarfoot's line, "Baby, you're really stacked!" suggests that this comic wasn't really intended for children.<br />
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The lyrics of Snake Oil's song suggest that it is a customized version of St. Louis Blues. Snake Oil must be pretty good, because Sugarfoot and Ample are really swinging!<br />
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The story ends nicely with a reprise of the running gag and the two about to have to dive off the railroad track like they did in the beginning. I like this story for the skillful way it takes us through the various stages in the narrative. To me, the art is more complex than it appears at first glance, and it's very communicative. I have to say that I've really enjoyed reading this story, and the Ace Harlem story featured recently on <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Out Of This World</span></b>. It's sad that there was only one issue of All-Negro Comics.KBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09745482563627003570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502701005570169613.post-11898297390395242472013-12-30T12:08:00.000-05:002014-01-03T19:01:09.924-05:00One Tiny Step for Humankind<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Tiny's presence in comics was enhanced by Harvey reprinting their <i>Paramount Little Audrey</i> run, as well as the earliest issues of <i>Playful Little Audrey</i>, in the 25c giant size <i>Little Audrey TV Funtime</i> series in the 1960s. I believe at least the first 17 issues of this title contain Tiny reprints, and collecting these is the cheapest way to accumulate the complete body of Tiny stories, which includes appearances in Little Audrey stories, as well stories with Tiny as the main protagonist. The <i>TV Funtime</i> issues seem to reprint two of the original 10c issues in each one, so it is likely that Tiny is found in issues of <i>TV Funtime</i> well into the 20s. Many of the Tiny stories were drawn by the late Howie Post, and possibly written by him as well - they certainly contain some whacky humor and are of exceptional quality. Little Audrey is often spoken of in terms of being a cheap substitute for Little Lulu, but honestly from my point of view the stories are far better. But why not judge for yourself? Here are the two Tiny stories found in <i>Little Audrey TV Funtime #17</i>:<br />
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I suppose you could call that an example of slapstick humor! That and the next one illustrate Tiny's uncanny ability to 'fall on his feet'. In "Hair Today" you saw Tiny rewarded for being a good kid and accidentally helping others in the process. Tiny is a 'glass half full' guy most of the time - positive, happy - his childish innocence helps, and as you'll see in "Get Lost', Tiny often comes to everyone's rescue.</div>
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The only recent publications featuring Harvey Comics are the fabulous and inexpensive reprint books by Dark Horse that I mentioned at the beginning - there are several volumes but just the one that features Little Audrey and Tiny. I highly recommend purchasing this one and the entire series.<br />
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But back to my original reason for posting about Tiny. There were a few respectful representations of African Americans in comics during the 1940s and into the early 50s, even some regularly featured characters. But by 1953 they were gone. Tiny was the only one for a while, then in the late-50s Dell re-introduced <i>Our Gang</i> as <i>The Little Rascals</i>, mirroring the re-packaging of the Hal Roach movies for TV. But Tiny was a pioneering move on the part of Harvey Comics. Tiny had his own feature, unlike the African American members of <i>Our Gang/The Little Rascals</i>, or John Smith, assistant to Balbo the Boy Magician in Fawcett's <i>Master Comics</i>. Harvey Comics' efforts at enlightenment during what was in some ways a bleak period in this country's history need recognizing and celebrating.KBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09745482563627003570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502701005570169613.post-49499578934857941882013-12-28T15:53:00.000-05:002013-12-29T14:37:38.075-05:00The Friendly Skies: Young Romance 127 - "Another Face, Another Love"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Although I have a number of these Bonnie Taylor comics in my collection, I don't have this one, the scan of which I received from another collector. The Bonnie Taylor story suggests what life is like for a woman constantly on the move in the job of an airline stewardess. Drawn by John Romita Sr. and written by Bob Kanigher, it represents the product of a high quality team working for DC at the time (mid-1960s).<br />
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'Career girl' or 'working girl' stories are fairly common in romance comics, and tended to highlight the 'career-love dilemma', most amply demonstrated by nursing romance comics, numerous examples of which can be found on this blog. In comics, nurses were exposed to an endless barrage of handsome and/or wealthy patients, as well as doctors and interns. For airline stewardesses it was passengers and pilots that provided the potential love interest, or handsome strangers in the many ports of call.<br />
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By the 1960s, Charlton Comics were the principle purveyors of career girl romance stories, with numerous nursing romance books as well as <i>Career Girl Romances</i> itself. Marvel adapted their previously more cartoon-like and humorous <i>Millie the Model</i> and <i>Patsy Walker</i> titles, making them more like romance titles, and DC took the bold step of orienting some of their romance books to career girls, creating ongoing features about specific characters. In <i>Young Love</i> it was Mary Robin, RN, also produced by Kanigher and Romita, Sr., and in <i>Young Romance</i> it was Bonnie Taylor in her very PanAm-ish blue uniform.<br />
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Interesting studies can be found on the traditional airline stewardess of yore. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1933112069/ref=oh_details_o05_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1" target="_blank">Come Fly With Us</a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1933112069/ref=oh_details_o05_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1" target="_blank">! A Global History of the Airline Hostess</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0822339463/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i01?ie=UTF8&psc=1" target="_blank">Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants</a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0814794084/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1" target="_blank">Working the Skies: The Fast-Paced, Disorienting World of the Flight Attendant</a> are some good examples, as well as the well-researched but unfortunately canceled TV Series <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Pan-Am-Complete-Christina-Ricci/dp/B00A4Y624U/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1388262872&sr=1-1&keywords=Pan-Am" target="_blank">Pan-Am</a>. Of note on the cover of <i>Young Romance #127</i> above, the first issue to feature Bonnie Taylor, is the caption that reads, "Meet Bonnie Taylor, the lovely airline stewardess, who flies in and out of romantic adventures," suggesting that Bonnie's relationships are unlikely to be long-lasting.<br />
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Just as with the Mary Robin, RN stories, these Bonnie Taylor romances are written as a kind of diary. In <i>Young Love</i> the Mary Robin stories actually take the form of a diary written by Mary, but with Bonnie Taylor it is more like she is the narrator of her own tale detailing the euphoria and heartache of her fleeting encounters. So here's the story that introduced Bonnie Taylor to the eager 1960s readership of <i>Young Romance</i>:<br />
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It's interesting that Bonnie is definitely on the look out for romantic opportunities. Also interesting is the implication that Bonnie's job will drag her away from any romance she does find. In the case of the Captain, she lost out to a girl who is located in one place. The good old career-love dilemma for the working girl.</div>
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This 15 page detective story sends home the "As ye sow, so shall ye reap!" message of inescapable karma pretty strongly. There are lots of period cultural details - the clothes, the activities of the characters, the language, the streets and buildings, cars, interior and street furniture, hardware such as the cash register, some sub-cultural references. The picture we get of this part of a 1940s inner city area (Harlem?) is that it is populated exclusively by African Americans - good guys, bad guys, innocent bystanders, victims - everybody, evidencing the way this piece of art reflects the highly segregated nature of society at the time, and lives up to the book's title.<br />
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Because so much of the content of this story is period specific, full understanding of what it communicates would necessitate a detailed understanding of the cultural items mentioned above. Take the jukebox and the song that it was playing, for example. "Open the Door, Richard" was a novelty rhythm and blues song first recorded by Jack McVea in 1946. The way jukeboxes were loaded with disks, as well as the mechanism for paying for and selecting a song to play would need to be appreciated. What about zoot suits? The lucky charm found by Ace Harlem would have been attached to the lengthy zoot chain that was a required accessory to the zoot suit - this was a watch chain attached to the belt, dangling at least to below the knee, and then back up into the pocket at the side of the pants. The cultural significance of the zoot suit is a PhD in its own right. The further this and other Golden Age comics recede in time in terms of their origin, the more background knowledge is required with which to interpret them. While the basic plot is relatively easy to discern, the implications of all the details, such as those mentioned above, on the mental picture conjured by reading the story, can be better appreciated when one has some familiarity with the culture of the intended audience.<br />
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Period popular culture, particularly that of the 20th Century, an era of extremely rapid innovation and change, provides an incredibly valuable resource for analysis of this fascinating time. But African Americans are poorly represented in some areas of popular culture of that period, with items created by African Americans particularly scarce. In the case of comic books, ANC#1 is unique - the only comic out of the thousands of different books that were produced in the first decade of modern comic books' existence, that was written, drawn, and published by African Americans. Few seem to have survived, making the contribution of these scans to the Digital Comics Museum vastly important in terms of allowing access to this significant rarity.<br />
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<br />KBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09745482563627003570noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502701005570169613.post-37461972349599966882012-06-03T13:49:00.002-04:002013-12-30T13:59:26.213-05:00British Girls' Comics: Diana Annual 1976 - Fabulous Four by Enrique Badia Romero<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This 1976 Fabulous Four story has an interesting story line that pits young males and females against each other. Each group is convinced that the other is going to be awful in some way, the boys believing that the girls are actually cats and the girls believing the boys are dogs. The evil, older scientist cooked up this little scenario. So it's kind of allegorical in a way, mirroring the way young girls might think that boys are nasty, but at a certain point they change their outlook, and vice-versa with boys' opinions of girls. When they actually start interacting with each other, they find that what they previously thought is erroneous, and they kind of like being together. Of course, this is my interpretation. On the face of it the story is actually about the evil scientist's plot to get rid of the Fabulous Four, who present an obstacle to his plans for galactic domination. Anyway, here it is, with Romero's ladies and their very bushy eyelashes and wild hair - maybe one way of identifying his artwork actually.<br />
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<br />KBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09745482563627003570noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502701005570169613.post-8247520865145242012-05-27T22:57:00.000-04:002014-10-16T00:55:09.784-04:00British Girls' Comics: Diana Annual 1977 - Fabulous Four by Enrique Badia RomeroLast year <b style="color: #f1c232;">Out Of This World</b> featured examples of stories and sequential art to be found in the excellent but now extinct British girls' comic, <i>Diana</i>. One of the stories featured in that post was "For Love of Leni", drawn by Enrique Badia Romero, better known for his work on the <i>Modesty Blaise</i> newspaper strip:<br />
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That Romero's celebrated style turns up in <i>Diana</i> is interesting in and of itself. I only have a few <i>Diana</i> annuals, none of the weekly comics, but in those annuals there is a regular feature called 'The Fabulous Four', a girls' sci-fi futuristic adventure story. Artistically it is probably the best piece in a book that is generally full of high quality art. Below is the Fabulous Four story from the 1977 <i>Diana Annual</i> - enjoy!<br />
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I think we lost a lot when romance comics and these girls' comics went by the wayside. What is interesting also, to me, is that there were comics (and such high quality comics at that), produced for girls in the UK. We'd still have them today if there was a market, but they're gone, presumably because girls stopped buying comics. We've talked about this before, but perhaps somehow the publishers lost their audience by being unable to go with them wherever it was that they went, in terms of what they were looking for in entertainment.KBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09745482563627003570noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502701005570169613.post-78973059273958900592012-05-26T14:36:00.002-04:002012-05-26T14:38:38.001-04:00Latino/Spanish Artists at Charlton: Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez (3) - For Lovers Only 68<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The December 1972 issue of Charlton's <i>For Lovers Only</i> (issue 68) has a beautifully illustrated tale entitled "A One-Sided Affair". Garcia-Lopez's art is fully mature in style, and fortunately the story is not too bad either, simple but okay. Charlton used the splash page from the story for their panel cover, not surprisingly actually, because the artist really knows how to draw a beautiful woman.<br />
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As seems rather typical for these late 60s/early 70s romance stories drawn by Latino/Spanish artists, we're not looking so much at lower socioeconomic communities. Although the protagonist, Eve, is a secretary, she works for a firm of architects, and mixes with educated professionals. The scenario is also somewhat realistic and also something you'd expect from a romance tale. The ending is satisfying - our leading lady gets her man, without there being a big fuss made by her girlfriend, with whom her heart throb has been dating for some time in a relationship that wasn't going anywhere. I like the use of the girl's diary again - I'm surprised this was put in <i>For Lovers Only</i> instead of <i>Love Diary</i>. This is just a really nice looking comic, with a great piece of artwork by Mr. Garcia-Lopez. A collection of his Charlton romance stories would make a nice book I think.<br />
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Beautiful work, great artist!</div>KBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09745482563627003570noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502701005570169613.post-79512373074718528112012-05-20T09:00:00.000-04:002012-05-20T09:00:05.848-04:00Latino/Spanish Artists at Charlton: Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez (2) - Love Diary 57<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The 8-page story, "This Fantastic Man", in Charlton's <i>Love Diary 57</i> (December 1968), is an earlier example of Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez's romance work for the company. Again some lovely, atmospheric panels by the artist, who knows how to draw lovely ladies and good-looking guys. Again we see an example of Charlton re-using interior artwork for the cover, this time the splash page. They weren't the only ones to do this, however. This was a common practice in DC romance books in the 60s, Marvel as well. The story is very simple - girl with a history of failures at romance
gets a change of scenery and things start to go differently. In the end
it all works out for her and she finds the love she wanted all along. I
like the way the story includes an actual love diary written by the
protagonist. Some beautiful panels - page 4 has some particularly nice examples. Very European-looking cars, stylish clothes, I like the braided hair. Nice backgrounds - just all very pleasing to the eye. These Charlton romance stories by Garcia-Lopez have made me really appreciative of his work.<br />
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Next post on <b style="color: #ffd966;">Out Of This World</b> - another Garcia-Lopez romance gem, a later one, from 1972.KBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09745482563627003570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502701005570169613.post-58085254569576240992012-05-18T21:59:00.001-04:002012-05-18T23:09:16.382-04:00Latino/Spanish Artists at Charlton: Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez (1) - Just Married 74<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The December 1970 issue of Charlton's <i>Just Married</i> (#74) features a 10-page story about a young couple possibly approaching divorce. The cover is one of Charlton's thrifty collage covers made up of panels of interior artwork from this particular story. The title "Why Am I Here?" reflects the confusion and uncertainty the wife feels as she arrives in Reno to meet up with a divorce lawyer. This, and the other Charlton romance stories by Garcia-Lopez that I have in my collection, really make me appreciate this type of work produced by this well-known artist, the bulk of whose material appears in DC superhero books. To me, this romance material is of superior quality, possibly because it was earlier and he had more time. But looking at his later stuff you can see an evolution towards a more stylized product, a bit like the way Alex Toth's earlier work was more realistic while his later style more 'cartoony' - different, simpler. The story is quite solid, and revolves around the misinterpretation of the husband's actions - his wife believes he has fallen for a young woman whose own husband runs around on her. On the verge of going through with the divorce, she sees the truth - her husband was indeed just helping an unfortunate - she hadn't given him the opportunity to explain what was going on, and was rather ready to jump to a certain conclusion - the kind of uncertainty about a spouse that one might expect early on in a marriage. To be fair, though, he could have handled the situation a lot better, and done more to ensure his wife wouldn't be put in such a difficult situation where she didn't know what was happening.<br />
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I like the underwater kiss, the lighthouse panel, the review of how the couple got together, gorgeous 'reflection on a pillow' panel on page 6 of the story, nice clothes, beautiful lady, handsome guy. Very nice.<br />
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A couple more examples of this stage of Garcia-Lopez's career drawing Charlton romance stories will be featured in the next couple of <b style="color: #ffd966;">Out Of This World</b> posts. <a href="http://sequentialcrush.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Sequential Crush</a> has also featured <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Luis_Garc%C3%ADa-L%C3%B3pez"><span class="title">José Luis García-López</span></a><span class="title"> in a couple of posts, including an interview:</span><br />
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Charlton's <i>Time for Love 43</i> (Aug 1975) has another 6 page story sporting some decent Demetrio artwork. This time another well-used romance comic theme is used - that of the star struck aspiring actress exploited by the philandering lead actor, while the reliable home town guy waits, offering support, until the girl's illusion is dispelled. She allows herself to be easily taken in by the unprincipled celebrity, to the extent that she begins believing he loves her and intends to follow through with his promises. Of course it all comes crashing down, and Mr. Dependable has to pick up the pieces. Fortunately she's able to learn from her experience and see the man who really cares about her as the gem he is. Some artistic devices of note: the protagonist's hair begins to spill out over the edges of the panels in the last 3 pages of the story, quite nicely done; here and there we see some of the trademark Demetrio psychedelia - particularly nice examples in panel 2 on page 4 and in panel 4 of page 6. European cars, broody females, a flock of seagulls, 70s hairstyles. Here it is:<br />
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There was a point in the story where Elaine seemed to be suggesting that Peter was too controlling, but one has to wonder how he put up with her running off with the flashy actor when it is obvious he cares for her.<br />
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<span id="goog_1803600580"></span><span id="goog_1803600581"></span>KBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09745482563627003570noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502701005570169613.post-86824591840803514972012-05-15T08:38:00.001-04:002012-05-16T20:52:10.009-04:00Latino/Spanish Artists at Charlton: Demetrio (8) - Secret Romance 37<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The artwork in this 6-page Demetrio romance story, "Bus Ride Blues" from <i>Secret Romance 37</i> (March 1976), is again of superior quality. We have a female protagonist taking a bus tour to forget about the guy she was going to marry until she found out he was cheating on her. At each of the stops on the tour she spies the same handsome stranger, each time with a different woman. She ends up falling for him, but his explanation for those other women doesn't match the visuals - he's a salesman, and they were all clients!? He has his arm round beautiful female clients!? I have a hunch the heroine is going to find herself being cheated on again eventually, but at the end of the story she's still blinded by love, which should have been the title of the story I think. Anyway, there are some nice panels, and I don't want to take away from the beautiful Demetrio art. The idea was good, but the way it was resolved was rather implausible, in my opinion. Perhaps there was some miscommunication between the writer and artist of this story - from when I spoke to Joe Gill, the prolific Charlton writer a year before his death, he talked about the Spanish artists that Charlton was getting work from by mail - he rarely if ever got to meet some of the artists working for the company in the late 60s/early 70s period. Anyway, here's the story - another of the better Demetrio pieces:<br />
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Some nice panels, I think you'll agree - layouts too. But customers!?KBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09745482563627003570noreply@blogger.com1