Last Kiss » Love http://www.lastkisscomics.com Life with Lip -- a blog by John Lustig Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:25:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 True Love or Barf? http://www.lastkisscomics.com/2012/01/19/true-love-or-barf-3/ http://www.lastkisscomics.com/2012/01/19/true-love-or-barf-3/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000 John Lustig http://www.lastkisscomics.com/2012/01/19/true-love-or-barf-3/ True Love or Barf?

From now on—when possible—I’ll be including a bonus with each Last Kiss comic: A look at the original romance art that I use as source material. This one is a panel from the 12th issue of First Kiss.]]> True Love or Barf?

From now on—when possible—I’ll be including a bonus with each Last Kiss comic: A look at the original romance art that I use as source material. This one is a panel from the 12th issue of First Kiss.

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]]> http://www.lastkisscomics.com/2011/12/25/sit-down-for-love/feed/ 0 What is This Strange Feeling? http://www.lastkisscomics.com/2011/09/08/what-is-this-strange-feeling/ http://www.lastkisscomics.com/2011/09/08/what-is-this-strange-feeling/#comments Fri, 09 Sep 2011 04:20:00 +0000 John Lustig http://www.lastkisscomics.com/2011/09/08/what-is-this-strange-feeling/ What is This Strange Feeling?

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]]> http://www.lastkisscomics.com/2011/09/08/what-is-this-strange-feeling/feed/ 2 Making Do…Until the Economy Improves http://www.lastkisscomics.com/2010/11/18/making-do-until-the-economy-improves/ http://www.lastkisscomics.com/2010/11/18/making-do-until-the-economy-improves/#comments Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:00:00 +0000 John Lustig http://www.lastkisscomics.com/2010/11/18/making-do-until-the-economy-improves/ Making Do…Until the Economy Improves

The benefits of a bad economy–you’re still attractive to women. Well, some women. ——- Hmm. I originally had the woman say the line (see original version below), but the consensus from fans has been that it’s funnier if the guy says the line. So I’ve changed it. The guy is now the cad!]]> Making Do…Until the Economy Improves

The benefits of a bad economy–you’re still attractive to women. Well, some women.

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Hmm. I originally had the woman say the line (see original version below), but the consensus from fans has been that it’s funnier if the guy says the line. So I’ve changed it. The guy is now the cad!

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Don’t get me wrong. I love you. But maybe someone like you would be even better. If you’ve got some cousins maybe you could introduce me…]]> Don’t Be Paranoid

Don’t get me wrong. I love you. But maybe someone like you would be even better. If you’ve got some cousins maybe you could introduce me…

]]> http://www.lastkisscomics.com/2010/09/30/dont-be-paranoid/feed/ 1 Doggone Love http://www.lastkisscomics.com/2010/09/05/doggone-love/ http://www.lastkisscomics.com/2010/09/05/doggone-love/#comments Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:00:00 +0000 John Lustig http://www.lastkisscomics.com/?p=3681 Doggone Love

You’ll never sleep alone if you have a dog!]]> Doggone Love

You’ll never sleep alone if you have a dog!

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Yes, it’s the summer of free love. Feel free to enjoy it. Now, will that be check or credit card?]]> Free Love

Yes, it’s the summer of free love. Feel free to enjoy it. Now, will that be check or credit card?

]]> http://www.lastkisscomics.com/2010/08/19/free-love/feed/ 2 The Secret Ingredients http://www.lastkisscomics.com/2010/08/12/the-secret-ingredients/ http://www.lastkisscomics.com/2010/08/12/the-secret-ingredients/#comments Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:00:00 +0000 John Lustig http://www.lastkisscomics.com/?p=3597 The Secret Ingredients

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]]> http://www.lastkisscomics.com/2010/08/12/the-secret-ingredients/feed/ 1 Widow Miss Muffet Part 11 http://www.lastkisscomics.com/2010/05/31/widow-miss-muffet-part-11-5/ http://www.lastkisscomics.com/2010/05/31/widow-miss-muffet-part-11-5/#comments Mon, 31 May 2010 08:00:00 +0000 John Lustig http://www.lastkisscomics.com/?p=3239 Widow Miss Muffet Part 11

Click on image above to see spectacularly larger view of today’s comic.” I knew that “Widow” artist Dick Giordano drew and edited zillions of romance comics. But it wasn’t until I read Michael Eury’s biography Dick Giordano: Changing Comics, One Day at a Time that I realized how intimately comics and romance were intertwined in [...]]]> Widow Miss Muffet Part 11

Click on image above to see spectacularly larger view of today’s comic.”

I knew that “Widow” artist Dick Giordano drew and edited zillions of romance comics. But it wasn’t until I read Michael Eury’s biography Dick Giordano: Changing Comics, One Day at a Time that I realized how intimately comics and romance were intertwined in Dick’s life:

“In 1954 artist Sal Trapani [a Charlton Comics staffer] announced his marriage to an old classmate of Giordano’s and asked Dick to be in the wedding. At the ceremony, usher Dick Gordano was paired with bridesmaid Marie Trapani, the sister of the groom, and was instantly enchanted by her striking beauty. In a scene that played out of a romance comic story (minus the heartache), Marie caught the bride’s bouquet and Dick, her garter. The two began dating and very quickly fell in love, becoming engaged shortly thereafter…[Dick and Marie] were married April 17, 1955.”

Sprechen Sie Deutsch? To read “Widow Miss Muffet” and other Last Kiss comics in German click here.

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The “Widow Miss Muffet” storyline resumes tomorrow and wraps up Friday. In the meantime, here’s another mini-tribute to the artist of that saga and today’s comic, the late Dick Giordano. “…Detective #457…showed me how much Dick Giordano was responsible for the greatness of those Neal Adams comics that I thought Dick had been ‘just inking’.  [...]]]> Love Yourself

The “Widow Miss Muffet” storyline resumes tomorrow and wraps up Friday. In the meantime, here’s another mini-tribute to the artist of that saga and today’s comic, the late Dick Giordano.

“…Detective #457…showed me how much Dick Giordano was responsible for the greatness of those Neal Adams comics that I thought Dick had been ‘just inking’.  This was a comic drawn with beautiful realism, perfect line work, dramatic lighting, phenomenally beautiful women, and all the things that made those Neal comics wonderful, only Neal wasn’t around for this issue.  It turned out DICK WAS THE GUY who had been doing much of that all along.  And there was a subtle difference in the storytelling.  It was somehow more accessible, more “readable”, more directly told, than I was used to from this familiar style, and in many ways I LIKED IT BETTER!”

–Ty Templeton at http://tytempletonart.wordpress.com/2010/03/29/sad-to-hear-about-dick-giordano-passing-away/

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