Home on the Strange

Home on the Strange

Many thanks to Ron Evry and Bruce Simon for permission to use art from one of their fine collections of J.R. Williams’ comics:  Hoo-Hah! Out Our Way – The Poetry of J. R. Williams

Original Art

 

 

Transcript:

Scene: Two cowboys riding their horses slowly by a pond. In the background two rabbits run in a field.

COWBOY #1 (sings): Home, home on the range! where the west is wild! and the sex is strange! Oh, if I had brains,I’d come home from the range…and sing soprano after a sex change!

COWBOY #2 (thinks): *

RABBIT #1 (thinks): **

CAPTION: *Thank God I’m too deaf to hear any of this!

CAPTION: **Run away! Run away!

Vintage Art: J.R. Williams New Dialogue: John Lustig
Art from Bruce Simon’s & Ron Evry’sbook:
Hoo-Hah! Out Our Way: The Poetry of J.R. Williams

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↓ Transcript
Scene: Two cowboys riding their horses slowly by a pond. In the background two rabbits run in a field.

COWBOY #1 (sings): Home, home on the range! where the west is wild! and the sex is strange! Oh, if I had brains,I’d come home from the range...and sing soprano after a sex change!

COWBOY #2 (thinks): *

RABBIT #1 (thinks): **

CAPTION: *Thank God I’m too deaf to hear any of this!

CAPTION: **Run away! Run away!

Vintage Art: J.R. Williams New Dialogue: John Lustig
Art from Bruce Simon’s & Ron Evry’sbook:
Hoo-Hah! Out Our Way: The Poetry of J.R. Williams

The Poetry of J.R. Williams-0038


Rampaging Sex

Rampaging Sex

Original art possibly by Charles Sultan. Cover of Jungle Comics, published by Fiction House, April 1940.

 

 

Transcript:

SCENE: Kaanga tries to stop a rampaging rhino. Tied to the rhino’s back is a woman.

KAANGA: So…feeling horny yet?

WOMAN: Yes! But…not for you!

RHINO: Grunt*

CAPTION: *I’m always horny. But I guess no one cares.

1940 Artist: Charles Sultan?
Restoration: John Lustig

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SCENE: Kaanga tries to stop a rampaging rhino. Tied to the rhino's back is a woman.

KAANGA: So...feeling horny yet?

WOMAN: Yes! But...not for you!

RHINO: Grunt*

CAPTION: *I'm always horny. But I guess no one cares.

1940 Artist: Charles Sultan?
Restoration: John Lustig

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Happy Sex

Happy Sex

 

Artist unknown. From the text story “Love Is All” in Thrilling Romances #25, March 1954.

 

Transcript:

SCENE: Woman and man hugging and very happy.

WOMAN: I’m so happy! I wanna celebrate! Gosh! I might even have sex with someone!

MAN: I’m someone!

WOMAN: You certainly are!

1954 Artist Unknown New Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira

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SCENE: Woman and man hugging and very happy.

WOMAN: I'm so happy! I wanna celebrate! Gosh! I might even have sex with someone!

MAN: I'm someone!

WOMAN: You certainly are!

1954 Artist Unknown New Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira

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Regrets the Day After

Regrets the Day After

Obviously I didn’t write or post this knowing the outcome of the election. But I know I voted. I hope you did too, you sexy devil!

Art by Dick Giordano from Teen-Age Love #38, July 1964.

 

 

Transcript:

SCENE: In the foreground, a young woman and man are smiling at each other—obviously interested in each other. In the foreground, a young woman is crying.

SMILING WOMAN: I voted!

SMILING MAN: That’s so sexy!

CRYING WOMAN: if only I’d voted…I’d be sexy too!

1964 Art: Dick Giordano New Color: Allen Freeman

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SCENE: In the foreground, a young woman and man are smiling at each other---obviously interested in each other. In the foreground, a young woman is crying.

SMILING WOMAN: I voted!

SMILING MAN: That’s so sexy!

CRYING WOMAN: if only I’d voted...I’d be sexy too!

1964 Art: Dick Giordano New Color: Allen Freeman

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Cavity Depravity

Cavity Depravity

Art by Dick Giordano from the story “The Proposal” in FIRST KISS #31, April 1963.

 

 

Transcript:

Scene: Woman is in a dental chair talking to a dentist.

WOMAN: No, really! You’re the first man who’s ever filled all my cavities…this way!

1963 Art: Dick Giordano Foreground Color: Allen Freeman

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↓ Transcript
Scene: Woman is in a dental chair talking to a dentist.

WOMAN: No, really! You’re the first man who’s ever filled all my cavities...this way!

1963 Art: Dick Giordano Foreground Color: Allen Freeman

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