Frankenstein And Other Distractions

Saturday Leftover Day.

Looking for the Mel Graff Patsy dailies I shared last Thursday, I discovered I still had a set of later Patsy Sunday that I hadn't shared yet. From the mid forties the strip was drawn by Bill Dyer (different from Bill Dwyer, although I do mix them up simetimes). Compared to Graff (and later Charles Raab assisted by Noel Sickles) his version of the strip was neither as exciting nor as well drawn. But his storylines do have a certain charm of their own and I have shred some of them. Where he shone in my believe, was in the Sundays. Much more silly than the original (and infinitely better than the Pollyanna version by a different artist in the mid forties), it has great one page gags and infectuously happy graphics. There is even a hint of satire, which I always like.

I apparently saved the wrong version of the first scan, which allows you to see what I have to start with.

Patsy through The Ages

Tuesday Comic Strip Day.

Patsy (in Hollywood)is one of those strips that had a lot of different artists and changed her style along with them every few years. The strip was created and owned by Associated Press and like other strips from that outfit, the artists were recruted from the bullpen. Some AP artists even worked on several of their strips, such as Secret Agent X-9. Patsy was handled at first by Mel Graff, but take over by Charles Raab when Graff left to do Secret Agent X-9. Raab was supposedly assisted by Noel Sickles on some weeks (some of which I showed in an earlier post). After Raab left he strip was taken over by lesser talent, until it returned to some sort of permanence again when it was given to Bill Dwyer after the war. Dwyer turned it into more of a funny strip, which seems to have had continuity on weedays and gags on Sundays. I showed two of the Sundays earlier, but saw I had three more. So here they are, together with a sampling of dailies from the later years.

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