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Comics · Connections · Here, Read · Jack Kirby · Look Here

Connections: Jack Kirby (1974) and Jean-Paul Goude (2006)

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So I clicked a link, posted on Twitter, that led to an article entitled “Jean-Paul Goude’s legendary photographs inject a bit of humour into fashion,” and since I rather liked the image of fashion models sprinting down a track and crossing the finish line…

… I clicked through to the photographer’s website and began to browse through the images. And then I noticed the image of a woman, in parts, in a box, an image that bears the title Anatomically Incorrect:

Which, if you read comics, will no doubt instantly remind you, as it did me, of one of the most startling covers and opening sequences ever created by the great Jack Kirby, whose legendary body of work is packed to the rafters with startling, visionary imagery:

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Comics · Here, Read · Joe Kubert · Look Here

Look Here, Read: “Kenton of the Star Patrol: The Corsairs from the Coalsack,” with art by Joe Kubert

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From Out of This World Adventures, vol. 1, no. 2, here’s “Kenton of the Star Patrol: The Corsairs from the Coalsack,” with script by John Michel and art by the late great Joe Kubert:

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Comics · Fred Schrier · Here, Read · Look Here

Look Here, Read: “The Electronic Music Concert” by Fred Schrier

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From Meef Comix #2 (May 1973), here’s “The Electronic Music Concert” by under-appreciated comix humorist Fred Schrier:

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Why can’t I click on over to my favourite online bookstore and buy a fat hardcover collection of Fred Schrier’s underground comics?

Because the world isn’t arranged to please me, that’s why!

Art Collection · Comics · Ebay Win · Here, Read · Illustration Art · Look Here · Mell Lazarus

Look Here, Read: An original MISS PEACH Sunday strip by Mell

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In our collection of original comic-strip art, my wife and I already have several Miss Peach dailies by Mell Lazarus (see here, here, and here), but my personal grail has long been a Sunday strip from the 1960s, when Mell’s drawings of his cartoon kids were at their most expressive and his wit was always razor sharp. Well, my quest is finally complete! Because yesterday I won an ebay auction for a big, beautiful original Miss Peach Sunday strip dated 12-2-1962 with a great gag featuring Francine and Arthur. (And at a good price, which is important, because our budget for original art is currently stretched to the max!) I don’t have the artwork in hand yet, but here’s the image from the ebay auction, and though it looks pieced together from smaller scans, it is probably as good as or better than anything I could possibly produce with our little scanner/printer:

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The strip is a whopping 24 inches wide by 18 1/2 inches high, and it comes with a tissue paper overlay roughly festooned with Mell’s crayon colour notes, intended as a guide for the printer:

And you know what? At this moment I feel like I never need to buy another Miss Peach original. I have what I wanted. I’m happy. And I’m done.

Unless…

Comics · Here, Read · Look Here · Steve Ditko

Look Here, Read: “They Didn’t Believe Him,” with art by Steve Ditko

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From Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds #3 (April 1957), here’s “They Didn’t Believe Him,” with art by Steve Ditko — as if you couldn’t tell at a glance!

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You’ve gotta love the leer of the mermaid in the second panel of the second page. When she tells the young dreamer to be among the reeds in the morning, you know he’s gonna be there, and when says she’ll come again, you definitely believe her!