A Post Post

It's been a while since I've posted any comic book stuff, so let's post some Howie Post!

Howie, who passed away not so long ago, had a long and respectable career in cartooning. One of his early gems was Jimminy and the Magic Book series, back in the '40s. As has been noted by BookSteve, Howie was influenced early on by Walt Kelly's work—but certainly not imitating him.

We have OtherEric, of the Digital Comic Museum, to thank for these scans. He sent them over a long time ago, but I just now got around to cleaning them up a bit. OtherEric has shared a bunch of The Adventures of Peter Wheat over on Whirled of Kelly, and I certainly appreciate his continued friendship!

Stuff Your Stocking

Don't forget to stop over at Whirled of Kelly, to stuff your stocking with Walt Kelly's art for The Night Before Christmas.

Help Defend the Wheatfield

If you're not a regular visitor over to The Whirled of Kelly (WALT Kelly, that is) you should pop over to see another of Kelly's classic Adventures of Peter Wheat . . .

Lordly Giant of Planets

I pulled these two pages together from my slush pile of Golden Age pages, sliced decades ago from Planet Comics, drawn by a young Murphy Anderson. It's a sweet piece of eye candy.

C-C-Conan

Did I mention how I jump all over the place on this here bloggy thingy?

John Buscema. Conan. 'Nuff said.

The Today of Their Tomorrow

It's fun to look back to days of future past, to see what yesterday thought the today of their tomorrow would look like.

These couple of pages are from the yesterday of 1946, created by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, showing, among other things, that everyone will own a set of portable jets to 'soar leisurely aloft at medium speeds'. I haven't been issued my set yet, so that probably won't be until the day after tomorrow, or maybe the tomorrow of the next month of the future. Though, this first page does hint at the achievement of Fed-Ex, getting fruits from farms to the desert within hours of being plucked.

Happy Birthday Joe Kubert!

This whole week of posting has been in honor of Joe Kubert's 84th birthday, today.

Happy Birthday Joe and thanks for your golden, silver, bronze, and modern ages! What's next?

Comin' At Ya

For all of Joe's great stuff, his Hawkman stuff, both silver and golden age, is my favorite.

Unfortunately, I've run out of time and energy and I'll have to do a Hawkman tribute some other day. But this Hawkman cover on a later Showcase is very cool and reminded me of a couple of other "comin' at ya" covers he did of the All-Star Squadron, and just had to include those with this tribute.

Junkyard of Death

Today is Joe Kubert's 84th birthday! All week been posting his work in his honor. Still got a couple more posts coming yet today.

Ragman was yet another Robert Kanigher creation and Kubert had a hand in each issue, but #5 was his pencils AND inks. The art is great, the story so-so, with the usual cliches. Ragman seems to evoke The Shadow, The Batman and such. I don't think it's been reprinted much, and it's Kubert!

Jungle Drama

Joe Kubert wasn't just about war drama. He was about jungle drama too. His Tarzan renderings are probably the best in the whole comic history of Edgar Rice Burroughs' character, including Hal Foster's. Unfortunately I thought many of the stories were rather lackluster, as most jungle stories tend to be, in my opinion. I just wish he had done more of ERB's Mars or Venus art.

These are a few of my favorite Tarzans by Joe.