From Mother’s Oats Comics #3 (1977), here’s “Doing It in the Park (8 easy-to-follow-steps)” by A. Blink, a.k.a., Kliban:
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Out of Context: “Diana, like any other girl with new clothes, cannot wait to try them on!””
Look Here: JUNGLE COMICS #66 to #70, with cover art by Joseph Doolin, et al.
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The cover of Jungle Comics #67 appears not to be by the same hand as the others. Online sources suggest that the artist might be Ruben Moreira. Whoever the artist was, however, the proportions and attitude of the male figure strongly suggest that he was a big fan of Burne Hogarth, who implemented in his comics and advocated in his art instruction books an idealized, observation-free method of figure construction that impressionable young artists really ought to avoid like the plague. Hogarth’s single-minded emphasis on concepts and construction ruined his own art; don’t let it ruin yours.
Also, I’m not entirely convinced that Jungle Comics #66 is by Doolin — which is why the file name does not include the name of the artist. The design and inking of the woman’s face suggests to me that the cover might be by a Filipino artist. But maybe it is by Doolin. Who knows?
Look Here: JUNGLE COMICS #61 to #65, with cover art by Joseph Doolin
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Some sources credit the cover of Jungle Comics #64 to Matt Baker; others credit Joe Doolin. I flipped a coin, and it came up Doolin. Just so you know…
Heads Up: THE COMICS JOURNAL #302: SENDAK
Coming in January 2013:
The publisher’s description, via Amazon.com:
This comics criticism annual feature career-spanning interviews with Maurice Sendak and Jacques Tardi, a kids’ comics roundtable moderated by Art Speigelman, and much more.
The newly formatted, 600+ page Comics Journal has proved a resounding success with 2011’s edition, featuring a cover and interview with R. Crumb, instantly selling out. 2012’s #302 is sure to prove just as critically and commercially exciting to comics readers worldwide. This edition’s cover feature is a long, intimate interview-portrait with and of Maurice Sendak, the greatest and most successful children’s book author of the 20th — and 21st — century, the author of Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There, Higglety Piggelty Pop, and the illustrator of works by Herman Melville, Leo Tolstoy, and Randall Jarrell. In his longest published interview, Sendak looks back over a career spanning over 60 years and talks to Gary Groth about art, life, and death (especially death), how his childhood, his parents, and his siblings affected his art and outlook, his search for meaning — and also, on the lighter side, about his love (and hate) of movies. Kim Thompson conducts a career-spanning interview with French graphic novel pioneer Jacques Tardi; the two will explore the Eisner Award-winner’s genre-spanning oeuvre comprising historical fiction, action-adventure, crime-thriller, “icepunk” and more. Art Spiegelman conducts a wide-ranging aesthetic colloquy on classic kids’ comics (Carl Barks’s Donald Duck, John Stanley’s Little Lulu, Sheldon Mayer’s Sugar and Spike, and many more) with a group of comics critics and historians. Michael Dooley moderates a roundtable discussion with Robert Williams, Joe Coleman, Marc Bell, and Esther Pearl Watson about the relationship between fine art and comics. Bob Levin provides a revelatory investigation of the twisted history of the Keep on Truckin’ litigation and a fascinating biographical portrait of R. Crumb’s lawyer, Albert Morse. Warren Bernard writes a groundbreaking historical investigation of the 1954 Senate Subcommittee Hearing on Juvenile Delinquency. Plus: “How to Draw Buz Sawyer” by renowned newspaper cartoonist Roy Crane (and a previously unpublished interview), comics by Lewis Trondheim in English for the first time, Tim Kreider on Chester Brown, a visual gallery of and commentary on proto-comics, and more. The Comics Journal has been for 37 years the world’s foremost critical magazine about comics. It is now more vital than ever, a gigantic print compendium of critiques, interviews, and comics.
Product details:
Paperback: 624 pages
Publisher: Fantagraphics; 1 edition (January 23, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1606996037
ISBN-13: 978-1606996034
And my recommendation:
Buy it!
Look Here: JUNGLE COMICS #54 to #60, with cover art by Joseph Doolin
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Look Here: JUNGLE COMICS #49 to #53, with cover art by Joseph Doolin
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BONUS LINK:
David Saunders’ “Field Guide to Wild American Pulp Artists” includes a biographical sketch of Joseph Doolin (1896-1967).
Out of Context: “Ka’a’nga grapples with it..”
Look Here: BONES OF FRANKENSTEIN, with cover art by Tony Masero
From our really big collection of really old paperbacks, here’s Donald F. Glut’s The New Adventures of Frankenstein No. 2: Bones of Frankenstein, with a lively and intense portrait of the “Frankenstein Monster” by Tony Masero on the cover:
Look Here: THE HANGING TREE, with cover art by E. Means
Whenever I’m browsing in stores that sell used books, I like to take a few minutes to rifle through the Western novels. I keep hoping that I’ll find some great Western covers, but more often than not, I’m disappointed. Turns out that, for the most part, the covers of Western novels are just not very interesting. But here’s an exception:
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The signature on the art looks to me to be “E. Means,” but I can find no information about a cover artist from the 1960s named E. Means on the Web. That cover, however, is killer!
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