Yuk And Others
Tuesday Comic Strip Day.
I blame the sixties. What was fresh and new in the fifties became the norm in the sixties and as such more boring than what it has replaced. I am talking about newspaper comics of course. I started this blog, because I found the fifties were neglected as an area worth of study. It semmes to me that many comic strip historian look upon the fifties as the period where it all went wrong and I don't agree. I think there was more solid storytelling and more acoomplished art and even more experiment in the fifties than in many decades before that. Or at least as much. But in the sixties, it is harder to maintain that statement, when lesser artists started to grab upon the 'modern' style to do their own 'simple' stips and newspapers themselves started to think that smaller is better. Still, that doesn't mean all strips that started in that decade (and some that ended there as well) are without their interest. So here is a selection of weird or unknown or shortrunning strips from the sixties. there are more, but this is a good selection I think. What are your favorites?
The Born Loser by Art Samson
Chief by Joe Dawley
Dolly by Bill Williams
Eek & Meek by Howie Schneider
Feeney Farm by George Lamont
Hapless Harry by Geo Gately
Hey, Swingy by Jan Green
Hustoria by unknown artist.
J.J. Yuk by Fred Lucky
McGurk's Mob by Marvin Stein
OPinion Wise by Sakren
Senator Cassius by Frank Hill
Sir Limerick by Ed Nofzinger
Stanley Steamer by John Somerville
Walter by Sakren