by John | Dec 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
Happy Hanukkah from me and my frequent Last Kiss collaborator Mike Pascale!
Art by John Tartaglione from the story “To Stella with Love” from First Kiss #3, 1958.
Transcript:
SCENE: A man and a woman kissing.
MAN: The dog ate our dreidel! What can we spin?
WOMAN: The bottle!
CAPTION: HAPPY HANUKKAH
1958 Art: John Tartaglione Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Yarmulke: Mike (The Mensch) Pascale
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: A man and a woman kissing.
MAN: The dog ate our dreidel! What can we spin?
WOMAN: The bottle!
CAPTION: HAPPY HANUKKAH
1958 Art: John Tartaglione Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Yarmulke: Mike (The Mensch) Pascale
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by John | Dec 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
Another great Tony Isabella gag!
Art by Bill Ward from Torchy #4, May 1950
↓ TranscriptSCENE: Male doctor is leering at a skimpily-dressed young woman who has her arms raised up and her chest pushed forward. And, yes, her armpits are exposed.
WOMAN: Look at his eyes popping out! No man can resist...my sexy pits!
1950 Art: Bill Ward Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
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by John | Dec 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
Okay. I’ll admit it. I’ve given Tony Isabella permission to write about my sex life.
I think Tony’s doing a bang up job so far. And remember—it’s all true. Except for the parts we made up.
Original Art:
Art by Art Saaf & Mike Peppe from the story “Kiss and Run” in NEW ROMANCES #14, 1952. (Scanned from the original black & white line art.)
Transcript:
SCENE: Man in foreground seems oblivious as three women talk about him in the background.
WOMAN #1: It’s settled! I get him Monday and Wednesday while Pepper gets him Tuesday and Thursday.
WOMAN #2: And I get him on Friday and Saturday.
WOMAN #3: Why do you get him two nights in a row?
WOMAN #2: Because after two nights with me…that boy is gonna need a day of rest!
1952 Art: Art Saaf & Mike Peppe Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: Man in foreground seems oblivious as three women talk about him in the background.
WOMAN #1: It’s settled! I get him Monday and Wednesday while Pepper gets him Tuesday and Thursday.
WOMAN #2: And I get him on Friday and Saturday.
WOMAN #3: Why do you get him two nights in a row?
WOMAN #2: Because after two nights with me...that boy is gonna need a day of rest!
1952 Art: Art Saaf & Mike Peppe Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
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by John | Nov 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
Many thanks to Ron Evry and Bruce Simon for permission to use art from one of their fine collections of J.R. Williams’ comics:
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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↓ TranscriptScene: 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
by John | Nov 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
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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↓ TranscriptSCENE: 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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