by John | Dec 31, 2023 | Blog
Running a gag written by my pal Mike Pascale is a great way to start off the year! Thanks, Mike! And Happy New Year to all of us–no matter what happens in politics!
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by John Tartaglione from the story “Dear Jilted” in Brides in Love #8, June 1958. Charlton. The story begins on Page 3.
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: A man has his arm around a woman and is holding her hand with his other hand. There are fireworks in the sky behind them.
WOMAN: It's a new Year! With new hopes and dreams...
MAN: AND A NEW ELECTION!
WOMAN: WELL, THERE GO THE HOPES AND DREAMS!
1958 Art: John Tartaglione Re-Creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Humor, Fireworks & Pizzaz: Mike Pascale
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by John | Dec 28, 2023 | Blog
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Syd Shores from the story “The Fatal Note” in Nightmare #1, July 1952. Published by Ziff-Davis. The story begins on Page 22.
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Synopsis of “The Fatal Note” courtesy of the Grand Comics Database: Walt and Eve are shipwrecked in a storm. Walt holds onto a spar to keep afloat and Eve drowns, screaming for help, as Walt claims the spar cannot hold them both. Walt meets Morta, who tells Walt he will die in a year unless he tells someone how he let Eve drown. Walt is rescued and gradually falls in love with Eve’s best friend but is haunted by images of Eve’s face as she was drowning. He tells no one and a year to the date of her drowning, he flies to Paris and his flight goes down in the ocean, whereupon he jumps in to be with Eve.
↓ TranscriptSCENE: Man and woman are embracing. But the man is sweating profusely and looks nervously at the woman.
WOMAN: I have two New Year’s resolutions! One is to lose half a pound! And the other is for you to propose! I wonder--which’ll happen first?
1952 Art: Syd Shores Re-Creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira
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by John | Jan 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
Art by Bill Ward from Torchy #4, May 1950.
Transcript:
SCENE: Woman with finger to her lips.
CAPTION: This year I resolve to:
—lose 10 pounds…and only gain back 5 of them!
—be more optimistic…
even when life sucks!
—only have sex with people I know!
—and get married…
at least once!
1950 Art: Bill Ward Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira Text: John Lustig
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: Woman with finger to her lips.
CAPTION: This year I resolve to:
—lose 10 pounds...and only gain back 5 of them!
—be more optimistic...
even when life sucks!
—only have sex with people I know!
—and get married…
at least once!
1950 Art: Bill Ward Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira Text: John Lustig
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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
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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
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