by John | Dec 31, 2020 | Uncategorized
Happy New Year! (And good riddance to 2020.) I hope we all have much better years.
Many thanks to my frequent partner in holiday hilarity Mike Pascale for today’s gag—plus the art changes!
Art by Vince Colletta Studio. Appeared first in First Kiss #29, 1962.
Transcript:
SCENE: Woman holding baby (with a 2021 sash) who is also a boy and is wearing a quiver of arrows.
WOMAN: What the bow and arrow for?
BABY: I wanna make sure old-man 2020 doesn’t come back!
CAPTION: *Baby’s First Weapon™ now sold in the Nursery Section of the Last Kiss Store!
962 Art: Vince Colletta Studio Color: Allen Freeman
Archery Art & Killer Humor: Mike Pascale
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: Woman holding baby (with a 2021 sash) who is also a boy and is wearing a quiver of arrows.
WOMAN: What the bow and arrow for?
BABY: I wanna make sure old-man 2020 doesn't come back!
CAPTION: *Baby’s First Weapon™ now sold in the Nursery Section of the Last Kiss Store!
962 Art: Vince Colletta Studio Color: Allen Freeman
Archery Art & Killer Humor: Mike Pascale
29.1.1.2
by John | Dec 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
To give me more time to figure out which New Year’s resolutions I’m going to make and break, I’m re-running this Last Kiss comic from 2016.
Happy New Year, everyone!
Transcript:
SCENE: Blonde woman with champagne bottle. Balloons in background.
WOMAN: Why wait? Let’s break our New Year’s resolutions now!
Model: Miss Kitty Harlow Photo: Allen Freeman
Text ©2016 Last Kiss Inc
Photo ©2016 Allen Freeman
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↓ TranscriptTranscript:
SCENE: Blonde woman with champagne bottle. Balloons in background.
WOMAN: Why wait? Let’s break our New Year’s resolutions now!
Model: Miss Kitty Harlow Photo: Allen Freeman
Text ©2016 Last Kiss Inc
Photo ©2016 Allen Freeman
MissKittyHarlowSilverBalloons
by John | Nov 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
Have a happy, lucky and safe Friday the 13th!
Many thanks—even more than usual—to cat wrangler Tony Isabella for coming up with the perfect gag for today.
Transcript:
BLACK CAT: You know what I did after my humans rescued me and gave me a home? I rescued them right back!
With apologies to Pretty Woman
Art: Luviene ©2020 Last Kiss Inc
Text by Cat Dialogue Coach: Tony Isabella
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↓ TranscriptBLACK CAT: You know what I did after my humans rescued me and gave me a home? I rescued them right back!
With apologies to Pretty Woman
Art: Luviene ©2020 Last Kiss Inc
Text by Cat Dialogue Coach: Tony Isabella
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by John | Oct 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
I figured yesterday’s comic was going to my last Halloween gag this year. But then this idea popped into my head a couple of hours ago. And I already had the perfect art for it thanks to my pal Mike Pascale. So…I went for it. Happy Halloween!
Art by John Tartaglione from the story “The Sea Green Eyes!” from First Kiss #5, 1958.
Transcript:
SCENE: Male zombie and very human and alive girl are hugging.
GIRL: I voted early!
ZOMBIE: I knew you had…braaains!
1958 Inks: John Tartaglione Color: Allen Freeman Gag: John Lustig
Zombification & Additional Color: Mike Pascale
5.5.4.2Halloween
↓ TranscriptSCENE: Male zombie and very human and alive girl are hugging.
GIRL: I voted early!
ZOMBIE: I knew you had...braaains!
1958 Inks: John Tartaglione Color: Allen Freeman Gag: John Lustig
Zombification & Additional Color: Mike Pascale
5.5.4.2Halloween
by John | Sep 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
Although my father’s side of the family is Jewish, I was brought up Christian (Presbyterian actually.) So my understanding of Yom Kippur isn’t from first hand experience.
I hope I got it right. More than that, I hope this comic is funny!
Art by John Tartaglione from the story “My Confidence Man” in FIRST KISS #5, 1958.
Transcript:
SCENE: Man and woman, almost cheek to cheek. The man looks sad. The woman looks on with an expression that shows concern, but seems to say that she knows something that the man doesn’t.
MAN: I can’t think of a Yom Kippur idea for today’s comic! I feel so guilty! I-I can’t even eat!
WOMAN: Guilt? Hunger? Congrats! That’s the essence of every Yom Kippur joke ever told! So…
MAN: Success!
2020 Last Kiss Inc
1958 Art: John Tartaglione New Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: Man and woman, almost cheek to cheek. The man looks sad. The woman looks on with an expression that shows concern, but seems to say that she knows something that the man doesn't.
MAN: I can’t think of a Yom Kippur idea for today’s comic! I feel so guilty! I-I can’t even eat!
WOMAN: Guilt? Hunger? Congrats! That’s the essence of every Yom Kippur joke ever told! So...
MAN: Success!
2020 Last Kiss Inc
1958 Art: John Tartaglione New Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
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FK16.5.4.5
