Monday, March 31, 2014

Pretty Pictorial

Monday Cartoon Day.

Another precious favorite. From late 1944 to around thes ame time a year later, Virgil Partch illustrated the weekly column by Arthur Bear. The column itself is funny enough, but the illustrations show Partch at his most absurd. Apart from some of his color work for True, this may be his most remarkable artwork in my opinion. I am slowly building a complete set of these, so I can publish them as an ebook. Unless one of my readers has a selection and wants to share it... a normal book collection would not do it, because the book would either have to be very big or reformatted to presrve the text or you would have to delete the text, which would be a pitty in my opinion. In an ebook version you would be able to enlarge them whenever necessary.

Sunday, March 30, 2014

I Hardly Knew Ye

Sunday Meskin Measures.

Sometime it pays that I am such a compulsive reader of comics. Everytime there is a new scan available on the Digital Comic Museum, I have a look through it, even if it is a minor title. This week, in the last issue of Hillman's Romantic Confessions (V3#1) I came across this four page story. Even thought it can sometimes be difficult to tell the work of Mort Meskin and George Roussos apart, I am pretty sure we are looking at a previously unnoted 1953 Mort Meskin story, which is around the time his work for Prize was slightly winding down (but before he started doing work for Dreams). My guess is, this story was not drawn by Meskin, but it was heavily redrawn by him while inking, which is mostly visible on the faces.

Saturday, March 29, 2014

A Genius Under Any Name

Saturday Leftover Day.

As bonus to the Lee Elias' Beyond Mars Sundays I dhowed this week, here is the second of his Tommy Tomorrow books for DC's Showcase, which ilustrates what a masterful artist he was.


Friday, March 28, 2014

A Briefer History of Time

Friday Comic Book Day.

Dick Briefer is best known for his work on Frankenstein for Prize. A weird creature, who started out as a funny character, later became more serious and ended with funny stories again. Briefer worked eaqually well as a srious and funny artist, as the stories here show. They were done for Hillman, a company he is not much associated with. He started out doing funny fillers and ended up doing serious rmance work. As comptetant a that is, I prefer his funny stuff.