Like Craig Yoe I am very much interested in cartoons and stories that show or spoof Modern Art.He devoted three of his earliest reprint books to it, called Modern Arf, But still I come across new ones every few months. Here is an Intellectual Amos story by Quality's Andre Lablanc. I never saw a lot of comic pages by him, just his incredible covers. I never knw he was one of the back-up fillers used in the first post war Spirit sections. I have been scanning my huge collection of sections for the Digital Comic Book Museum, where you can go to see most of my scans as well as plenty of others. They are interesting not only for The SPirit, but also for Klaus Nordling's The Barker and the many versions of Mr. Mystic. Remember, Eisner did more then ten years of these, so that's about 500 episodes of the Spirit as well as eight more pages by others.
Showing posts with label The Spirit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Spirit. Show all posts
Saturday, February 08, 2020
Passing Over The Scans
Saturday Leftover Day.
Like Craig Yoe I am very much interested in cartoons and stories that show or spoof Modern Art.He devoted three of his earliest reprint books to it, called Modern Arf, But still I come across new ones every few months. Here is an Intellectual Amos story by Quality's Andre Lablanc. I never saw a lot of comic pages by him, just his incredible covers. I never knw he was one of the back-up fillers used in the first post war Spirit sections. I have been scanning my huge collection of sections for the Digital Comic Book Museum, where you can go to see most of my scans as well as plenty of others. They are interesting not only for The SPirit, but also for Klaus Nordling's The Barker and the many versions of Mr. Mystic. Remember, Eisner did more then ten years of these, so that's about 500 episodes of the Spirit as well as eight more pages by others.
Like Craig Yoe I am very much interested in cartoons and stories that show or spoof Modern Art.He devoted three of his earliest reprint books to it, called Modern Arf, But still I come across new ones every few months. Here is an Intellectual Amos story by Quality's Andre Lablanc. I never saw a lot of comic pages by him, just his incredible covers. I never knw he was one of the back-up fillers used in the first post war Spirit sections. I have been scanning my huge collection of sections for the Digital Comic Book Museum, where you can go to see most of my scans as well as plenty of others. They are interesting not only for The SPirit, but also for Klaus Nordling's The Barker and the many versions of Mr. Mystic. Remember, Eisner did more then ten years of these, so that's about 500 episodes of the Spirit as well as eight more pages by others.
Saturday, August 03, 2019
More A Sidenote Than A Postscript
Saturday Leftover Day.
After the Second World War, Will Eisner retunred to The Spirit and continued it for another seven years (with the help of growing crew of assistants). The format that was established before the war remained - ach Spirit Section had one 7 or 8 page Spirit story, one Lady Luck (by KLaus Nordling) and one Mr. Mystic (later to be replaced). The alure of the section was the fact that newspapers could ad a 'comic book' to their Sunday section. But one paper did not adopt that format. Instead the enlarged the Spirit story to tabloid size and inserted it into their own Fun Book (filled with gag strips and games), produced by Bill Keane (of later Family Circus fame). I have a couple of those oversized Spirit sections. Becaus eof the difference in size, there was a white strip underneath the pages, that was filled with a specially drawn banner, featuring The Spirit's new kid character PS. The banners were repeated and I don't know how many there were, but here are the four I could find.
I don't know if they are drawn by Eisner himself. They could be by Klaus Nordling as well, who did a lot of those cute kids.
I tried to cut one of them into a more readable format of two tiers. The otehrs are as they appeared on 1951-06-10.
After the Second World War, Will Eisner retunred to The Spirit and continued it for another seven years (with the help of growing crew of assistants). The format that was established before the war remained - ach Spirit Section had one 7 or 8 page Spirit story, one Lady Luck (by KLaus Nordling) and one Mr. Mystic (later to be replaced). The alure of the section was the fact that newspapers could ad a 'comic book' to their Sunday section. But one paper did not adopt that format. Instead the enlarged the Spirit story to tabloid size and inserted it into their own Fun Book (filled with gag strips and games), produced by Bill Keane (of later Family Circus fame). I have a couple of those oversized Spirit sections. Becaus eof the difference in size, there was a white strip underneath the pages, that was filled with a specially drawn banner, featuring The Spirit's new kid character PS. The banners were repeated and I don't know how many there were, but here are the four I could find.
I don't know if they are drawn by Eisner himself. They could be by Klaus Nordling as well, who did a lot of those cute kids.
I tried to cut one of them into a more readable format of two tiers. The otehrs are as they appeared on 1951-06-10.
Saturday, April 22, 2017
A Ghost From The Past
Friday Comic Book Day.
I have a good selection of Spirit sections in Fine condition. I have been scanning them carefully and sending the scans to the guys at the Digital Comics Museum. I use alot of their scans and it's my way of paying them back. They handle them and turn them into downloadable .cbz files which you can find here (mine as well as many more by other scanners): https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?cid=663. The nice thing about these scans is the fact that we are doing the whole Spirit section, which means they contain Lady Luck and Mr. Mystic as well. In this early sample you get an iconic Spirit story, with a story in a story and a special art technique to represent ghosts, Lady Luck probaby not yet by Klaus Norling and Mr. Mystic by Bob Powell. All good.
I have a good selection of Spirit sections in Fine condition. I have been scanning them carefully and sending the scans to the guys at the Digital Comics Museum. I use alot of their scans and it's my way of paying them back. They handle them and turn them into downloadable .cbz files which you can find here (mine as well as many more by other scanners): https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?cid=663. The nice thing about these scans is the fact that we are doing the whole Spirit section, which means they contain Lady Luck and Mr. Mystic as well. In this early sample you get an iconic Spirit story, with a story in a story and a special art technique to represent ghosts, Lady Luck probaby not yet by Klaus Norling and Mr. Mystic by Bob Powell. All good.
Friday, February 04, 2011
Good Spirits
Friday Comic Book Day.
John Spranger, whose Saint showed yesterday, started out as an artist in the Eisner/Iger group. He drew manu of the spirit stories whchw ere done when Will Eisner was in the army. Infact, he may have drawn even more than Lou Fine, who is more often mentioned as Eisner's replacement artist in those years. After the war, he continued drawing The Spirit for Eisner. He also drew Doll Man, The Manhunter, Plastic Man and other Quality series. In those books, he is often joined with Alex Kotzky, whose style and career path is similar to Spranger's. In fact, I have often owndered if Kortzky didn't help Spranger out on the Saint, since the very talented KOtzky seems to have disappeared in the fifties (apart from some illustration and advertising work). Here are two of Sprangers comic book stories.
Friday Comic Book Day.
John Spranger, whose Saint showed yesterday, started out as an artist in the Eisner/Iger group. He drew manu of the spirit stories whchw ere done when Will Eisner was in the army. Infact, he may have drawn even more than Lou Fine, who is more often mentioned as Eisner's replacement artist in those years. After the war, he continued drawing The Spirit for Eisner. He also drew Doll Man, The Manhunter, Plastic Man and other Quality series. In those books, he is often joined with Alex Kotzky, whose style and career path is similar to Spranger's. In fact, I have often owndered if Kortzky didn't help Spranger out on the Saint, since the very talented KOtzky seems to have disappeared in the fifties (apart from some illustration and advertising work). Here are two of Sprangers comic book stories.
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