I have to confess that I have always been less of a fan of Smokey Stover than of it's companion strip Spooky. The often silent and always wonderfully slapsticky gags of Bill Hollman's black cat never fail to tickle my funnybone. So when I saw that I had a couple of stray episodes lying around, I had to share them.
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Showing posts with label Bill Hollman. Show all posts
Saturday, November 16, 2019
Spooky Bone
Saturday Leftover Day.
I have to confess that I have always been less of a fan of Smokey Stover than of it's companion strip Spooky. The often silent and always wonderfully slapsticky gags of Bill Hollman's black cat never fail to tickle my funnybone. So when I saw that I had a couple of stray episodes lying around, I had to share them.
I have to confess that I have always been less of a fan of Smokey Stover than of it's companion strip Spooky. The often silent and always wonderfully slapsticky gags of Bill Hollman's black cat never fail to tickle my funnybone. So when I saw that I had a couple of stray episodes lying around, I had to share them.
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Some Of A Gun
Monday Cartoon Day.
Every once in a while I like to show some of the week long illustrated crime stories that were sydicated by King Features in the late forties. The two main illustrators on these wer Paul Norris and Edd carrtier, both formidable draftsmen. Frank Gruber's The Murder Gun was first published in the crime pulp Clues Detective stories with illustrations by Orban. For the daily serialisation in 1948 Paul Norris provided the illustrations. Or at least, that's what I think. Although he did a single illustration for each day on the other stories I have seen, in this paper only his picture for the first day was used. At least you get a gag panel by Bill Holman for it in return.
Every once in a while I like to show some of the week long illustrated crime stories that were sydicated by King Features in the late forties. The two main illustrators on these wer Paul Norris and Edd carrtier, both formidable draftsmen. Frank Gruber's The Murder Gun was first published in the crime pulp Clues Detective stories with illustrations by Orban. For the daily serialisation in 1948 Paul Norris provided the illustrations. Or at least, that's what I think. Although he did a single illustration for each day on the other stories I have seen, in this paper only his picture for the first day was used. At least you get a gag panel by Bill Holman for it in return.
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