Writing a Best Seller
WOMAN: I’m writing a best seller! I don’t have a plot yet, but there’s lots of sex!
Art: Vince Colletta Studio Color: Allen Freeman
©2013 Last Kiss Inc
33.2.1.1
Writers never get the girl…at first.
Sooner or later most writers get asked to write a book about someone.
It’s rarely a good idea and the people who want you to write about them rarely have money.
It used to happen to me a lot when I was a reporter. Fortunately, since I started writing comics, it’s never happened.
And, honestly, if I was going to write anyone’s story, I’d write my own. But so far I haven’t offered myself enough money. And offering sex is pointless.
I’m already sleeping with myself..
And here’s the original 1960s romance art. The text is almost certainly by Joe Gill.
The original art (see below) for this gag comes from “My Secret” in First Kiss #27; It features a girl (the blonde in the panel below) who appears to be much older than her real age—14.
Things quickly spin out of control when she skips a couple of grades and ends up in a relationship which is clearly too mature for a 14-year-old!
Note for Giordano Fans:
Unfortunately, Charlton’s photostat for this panel was so poor that it was unusable. So I ended up scanning from the printed comic book.
Consequently, some of Dick Giordano’s fine line work was lost and had to be touched up here and there by my-gotta-get-it-done-now, but-definitely-not-an-artist last choice: me.
This is something I try to avoid, but sometimes happens when lines drop out and deadlines loom.
So you’re not getting pure Giordano here—which is a pity because Dick was my favorite Charlton romance artist.