How to Celebrate 2020

How to Celebrate 2020

Happy New Year—however you’re dressed. Or not dressed.

Art by Dick Giordano for Brides in Love #40, Feb. 1964.

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SCENE: An apparently naked, red-headed woman at a party with a man.

WOMAN: Happy Nude Year!

1964 Art: Dick Giordano Re-Creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira

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Someday Somehow Someway

Someday Somehow Someway

Art by Lee Elias for Hi-School Romance #23 – Oct. 1953.

 

 

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SCENE: A woman is crying in the background as another woman and a man sit and kiss on the grass in the foreground.

CRYING WOMAN (thinking): I’ll never give up on my dream! Someday I’ll be in the fore-ground…of a Last Kiss cartoon!

1953 Art: Lee Elias Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Guest Writer: Tony Isabella

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SCENE: A woman is crying in the background as another woman and a man sit and kiss on the grass in the foreground.

CRYING WOMAN (thinking): I’ll never give up on my dream! Someday I’ll be in the fore-ground...of a Last Kiss cartoon!

1953 Art: Lee Elias Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Guest Writer: Tony Isabella

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The Season’s Bare Essentials

The Season’s Bare Essentials

Underwear or not, I hope your holidays are happy, safe and warm!
(My thanks to Allen Freeman and Felina Vie for the fun photo.)

 

 

 

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SCENE: Felina Vie in a sexy Santa costume sits on a sleigh.

FELINA: I’m so excited! I got underwear for Christmas!

Model: Felina Vie Photo: Allen Freeman

Text ©2019 Last Kiss Inc. Photo: ©2019 Allen Freeman

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SCENE: Felina Vie in a sexy Santa costume sits on a sleigh.

FELINA: I'm so excited! I got underwear for Christmas!

Model: Felina Vie Photo: Allen Freeman

Text ©2019 Last Kiss Inc. Photo: ©2019 Allen Freeman

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Kissing Santa

Kissing Santa

Art by Reed Crandall from “The Ray” in Smash #24, 1941.

 

Transcript:

SCENE: Bucky is standing near the Christmas tree singing.

BUCKY (Singing): I saw Daddy kissing Santa Claus!

©2019 Last Kiss Inc
Bucky created by Jack Enyart & John Lustig

It’s Always Bucky™

1941 Foreground Art: Reed Crandall Re-Creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira

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SCENE: Bucky is standing near the Christmas tree singing.

BUCKY (Singing): I saw Daddy kissing Santa Claus!

©2019 Last Kiss Inc
Bucky created by Jack Enyart & John Lustig

It’s Always Bucky™

1941 Foreground Art: Reed Crandall Re-Creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira

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Menor, Ah Amour

Menor, Ah Amour

My thanks to Merry Mike Pascale (Last Kiss’s Master of haberdashery) for the addition of the snazzy yarmulke.

Art by John Tartaglione from the story “My Confidence Man” in FIRST KISS #5, 1958.

 

 

Transcript:

SCENE: Man wearing a yarmulke, kissing a woman.

WOMAN (thinking): he can light my menorah anytime!

1958 Art: John Tartaglione Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Yarmulke Salesman: Mike Pascale

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SCENE: Man wearing a yarmulke, kissing a woman.

WOMAN (thinking): he can light my menorah anytime!

1958 Art: John Tartaglione Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Yarmulke Salesman: Mike Pascale

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