by John | Jul 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
Below is the original 1960s romance art—which was taken from a story (“Honeymoon Continued”) about the duties and etiquette of being a new bride!
↓ TranscriptSCENE: A man is reading an insurance contract as a woman looks on.
WOMAN: I know life insurance is expensive! But think how you’ll feel
when…I mean, if…you drop dead next week!
Art by Charles Nicholas and Sal Trapani
Color by Allen Freeman
by John | Jan 6, 2011 | Uncategorized
See? No need for a restraining order. She still wants to be friends with you!
↓ TranscriptSAD WOMAN: sure I’ll forgive you...
someday...
Possibly after you die mysteriously!
After all...I don’t hold grudges!
Art by Vince Colletta Studio
by John | Jul 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Dick Giordano from the story “Fooling with Love” in First Kiss #7, Feb. 1959. Published by Charlton.
by John | Jun 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
Dear Future Celebrities:
Good news. You can become famous quickly and ridiculously easy. Here’s how:
Just do something outrageous. Do it in public. Throw in a bit of stupidity and sex (or violence) and — bingo. Instant fame. Enjoy it…while it lasts!
Or you can do something worthwhile. If you get famous for that then great! If not, well…at least you won’t be a total jerk!
↓ TranscriptSCENE: Man and woman talking to a young woman.
MAN: As actors we can’t get arrested! But as bank robbers we’ll
become reality TV stars...
WOMAN: If we don't get shot first!
by John | May 24, 2010 | Uncategorized
Click on image above to see spectacularly larger view of today’s comic.
How Fast is Fast?
Dick Giordano started his comics career at the Iger Studios and was such a fast inker that some of the other artists asked him to slow down.
The Iger artists were paid by the hour when they took work home. By turning out pages so quickly, Dick made it look too easy.
Later, though, when Dick started working at Charlton Comics the staff artists were paid by the page. So the faster they drew, the more they made.
Dick was “dazzled by the speed of the more seasoned staff artists.” One artist could pencil eight pages a day. Dick could “only” manage two — which was still darned fast!*
“I’m kind of fast. Anybody from my generation…is usually a little faster than the people who’ve come up recently because…the only way you could get a decent salary in the ‘50s and ‘60s was to do a lot of pages…
“You had to learn to cut through the unimportant stuff, to make only the important lines show up so you could do a few more pages.” —Dick Giordano in an interview by John Lustig, 2001
*Info in the first four paragraphs is summarized from Michael Eury’s Dick Giordano: Changing Comics, One Day at a Time
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↓ TranscriptPANEL 1, SCENE: Mitzi Muffet is standing next to a hospital gurney looking shocked. On the gurney is a body covered by a sheet. Standing on the other side of the gurney is a nurse.
NURSE: ...too late! He's colder than an Eskimo's outhouse!
MUFFET: This is awful! (Sob!) He didn't even get a chance to buy me any jewelry!
PANEL 2, SCENE: Cut to Mitzi sitting on a bed. In the background is an old man in a wheelchair.
CAPTION: "I dated a lot of men that week! At least, I think they were men!"
OLD MAN: This is just a disguise! Don't tell anyone, but...I'm really Britney Spears!
