"This day's experience, set in order, none of it left ragged or lying about, all of it gathered in like treasure and finished with, set aside." –Alice Munro, "What is Remembered"
The single panel above is from the story, “The Tell Tell Car,” as it appeared in Pete Millar’s DRAG CARtoons #2 (December 1963).
Marshall Matt Dillon, of course, was played by actor James Arness; in interviews, Arness generally claimed to be 6′ 6″ tall, but some sources say he was actually 6′ 7″, which is a full three inches taller than Clint Eastwood was, back in his salad spaghetti days.
Take a close look at the full-page picture of the female movie star in the magazine that Norman Rockwell’s Girl at Mirror has in her lap. Now look at the reflection of the woman in Robert McGinnis’s painting for the Carter Brown novel, The Never-Was Girl; see how McGinnis’s model seems to be using her hands as a cover to test how she would look with her hair done up like Rockwell’s movie star; also, simply compare the two faces. Coincidence? I doubt it…
BONUS IMAGE (added 16 January 2014):
ABOVE: Gerald Leslie Brockhurst, Adolescence (1932), etching, 26.5 x 37 cm. Collection of British Council, UK. Via TRANSISTORADIO.
From a 1993 reprint of Two-Fisted Tales #22 (EC, 1951), here’s “Dying City!” with script and layouts by Harvey Kurtzman, pencils by Alex Toth, and inks by Kurtzman:
Of course, in the summer of 2012, “Dying City!” will be back in print, this time from Fantagraphics, which recently acquired the reprint rights to the EC Comics Library and has announced plans to publish a series of volumes focused on individual creators. “Corpse on the Imjin” and Other Stories (including “Dying City!”) by Harvey Kurtzman and his various collaborators (ISBN: 978-1-60699-545-7) will be the first volume in the series.
Rebecca Dart, background artist on Mission Hill (TV Series 1999–2002) and character designer for My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (TV Series 2010 – ongoing), has finally returned to the world of comics with her first solo publication since RabbitHead, the artist’s acclaimed “oversized comic for mature readers,” published by Indy Comics in 2004.
Offset-printed on high-quality paper, Battle Kittens: The Art of R. Dart is a 56-page comic-sized collection — in black and white, with 8 pages in glorious colour — of Rebecca’s amazing sketchbook/artblog drawings from the last three years.
Available for order right now is the limited, 1000-copy print run first edition. And don’t delay if you want a copy, because the publisher — Rebecca’s “partner in grime,” Robin Bougie — says that when they are gone, THEY ARE GONE!
Click here to place your order. PayPal is accepted.
BONUS LINK:
Bookslut > A Brief Interview with Rebecca Dart, creator of RabbitHead
“I’m Looking over a Four Leaf Clover” is the seventh track on the 1962 instrumental album, Playing It Straight, by comedy legends Henry “Homer” Haynes and Kenneth “Jethro” Burns:
From Adventures into Terror #10 (June 1952), here’s “The Dark Passage,” with art signed by Ogden Whiteny, who later teamed up with Richard E. Hughes (writing under the pen-name “Shane O’Shea”) to create Alan Moore’s favourite “superhero,” Herbie Popnecker:
The Frazetta cover was published in September 1954; the artwork by Val Mayerik is from a story called “Domain,” with script by Bruce Jones, that appeared in Alien Worlds #1 in December 1982.
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