Happy Independence Day from me and my pal (and frequent Last Kiss collaborator) Mike Pascale*. There will be a bonus Fourth of July comic tomorrow!
(Check out the Kickstarter for Mike Pascale Seahawk football cartoon book “Game Buzz.”
Art by Vince Colletta Studio from the story “From Out of the Past” in FIRST KISS #15, 1960.
Transcript:
SCENE: Smiling woman talking to Uncle Sam as fireworks explode in the sky in the background.
WOMAN: You’re 243 years old! What’s your secret?
MAN: Clean living! Free health care!* Plus…I’m a cartoon character!
CAPTION: *Sam qualified for Medicare 178 years ago!
1960 Art: Vince Colletta Studio
Patriotic Passion, Apparel & SPX: Mike Pascale
Art Code: 15.1.8.1
Art by Vince Colletta Studio from the story “From Out of the Past” in FIRST KISS #15, 1960.
WOMAN: You’re 243 years old! What's your secret?
MAN: Clean living! Free health care!* Plus...I'm a cartoon character!
CAPTION: *Sam qualified for Medicare 178 years ago!
1960 Art: Vince Colletta Studio
Patriotic Passion, Apparel & SPX: Mike Pascale
Art by Vince Colletta Studio from the story "From Out of the Past" in FIRST KISS #15, 1960.
Medicare Part A is free (after paying in to it)
Medicare Part B isn’t free
Neither are supplemental and Part D
True. I misspoke–or at least misrepresented.
And I know better. I went on Medicare last year.
I’m sure the gringo got the “real” inside “dope” on Cuba while he was there during the movement (was he?), when Castro ousted Fulgencio Batista (there for that?), and before the CIA’s “Boy of Pigs” debacle.
She should be running away from this guy. No room in his head for any other thought than “me, me, me”.
After looking at the original and the retouched version, and a quick image search to find a original closer to the revised version (I did not find one), it occurs to me to ask: How do you find the comic panels for LAST KISS?