I have shown some of these I Love Lucy strips by Bob Oksner before and there has been a mult comic reprint series, but when I came across these week page versions of the later run, I couldn't resist them. Doing all off them would take a lot of work, because this went on for a couple of years! I guess the rights situation prevents a complete edition, but I would buy it.
Showing posts with label Bob Oksner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bob Oksner. Show all posts
Sunday, December 15, 2019
No Splenation
Sunday Same Old Day.
I have shown some of these I Love Lucy strips by Bob Oksner before and there has been a mult comic reprint series, but when I came across these week page versions of the later run, I couldn't resist them. Doing all off them would take a lot of work, because this went on for a couple of years! I guess the rights situation prevents a complete edition, but I would buy it.
I have shown some of these I Love Lucy strips by Bob Oksner before and there has been a mult comic reprint series, but when I came across these week page versions of the later run, I couldn't resist them. Doing all off them would take a lot of work, because this went on for a couple of years! I guess the rights situation prevents a complete edition, but I would buy it.
Monday, August 01, 2016
If You Knew Soozi Like I Know Soozi
Tuesday Comic Strip Day.
By all accounts, Soozi was not a succes. Bob Oksner's third (and last) venture into newspaper strip land (as an artist, becaus ehe also wrote Dondi for his friend Irwin hasen) ran only for a short time. In the early fifties, the dizzy girl who is not aware of her own sexuality was as popular stereotype. Most famous of them all was Candy, by Terry Southern, which appeared in 18958 and may have been the inspriration for Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder's Goodman Beaver (which in itself was the basis for their later Candy-clone Little Annie Fanny). But by the end of the sixties the genre had fizzed out and as a newspaper feature Soozi seems nothing more than a lame version of Little Annie Fanny who keeps her clotehs on. The fact that Bob Oksner draws he so beautifully and that her boyfriend looks like a normal versio of Jerry Lewis (which he also drew for DC comcis) didn't help the lame jokes either. But the most important part of the failure must be the fact that Oksner himself hated the strip and wanted out as soon as possible. So, only for the beautiful art of Bob Oksner, here is a selection of Soozi Sundays.
By all accounts, Soozi was not a succes. Bob Oksner's third (and last) venture into newspaper strip land (as an artist, becaus ehe also wrote Dondi for his friend Irwin hasen) ran only for a short time. In the early fifties, the dizzy girl who is not aware of her own sexuality was as popular stereotype. Most famous of them all was Candy, by Terry Southern, which appeared in 18958 and may have been the inspriration for Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder's Goodman Beaver (which in itself was the basis for their later Candy-clone Little Annie Fanny). But by the end of the sixties the genre had fizzed out and as a newspaper feature Soozi seems nothing more than a lame version of Little Annie Fanny who keeps her clotehs on. The fact that Bob Oksner draws he so beautifully and that her boyfriend looks like a normal versio of Jerry Lewis (which he also drew for DC comcis) didn't help the lame jokes either. But the most important part of the failure must be the fact that Oksner himself hated the strip and wanted out as soon as possible. So, only for the beautiful art of Bob Oksner, here is a selection of Soozi Sundays.
Sunday, February 22, 2015
A Boone To Mankind
Friday Comic Book Day.
Bob Oksner was a respected and talented artist, who is mainly known for his work on DC's Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis titles. He had three seperate newspaper strips in three seperate fases of his career. In the late forties he worked on the daily and Sunday strip Cairo Jones, in the fifties he did a shortlived I Love Lucy daily series and in the late sixties he drew Soozi (a strip he apparently did not like himself and could not get rid of soon enough). I have shown samples of all of these. In between he did tons of jobs for DC, veering from outright funny to light realism. And usually featuring pretty girls. In the mid fifties he did four issues of a unique Pat Boone comic book, also from DC, which featurd not only comic book stories, but also illustrated text features and fashion pages. A bit of a throughback to a genre that was more popular in the late forties, I have to say, but the style was unique. The comic book stories had no borders and no text balloons as such. Oksner used his most illustrative style for them, producing a forgotten but highly remarkable gem.
Bob Oksner was a respected and talented artist, who is mainly known for his work on DC's Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis titles. He had three seperate newspaper strips in three seperate fases of his career. In the late forties he worked on the daily and Sunday strip Cairo Jones, in the fifties he did a shortlived I Love Lucy daily series and in the late sixties he drew Soozi (a strip he apparently did not like himself and could not get rid of soon enough). I have shown samples of all of these. In between he did tons of jobs for DC, veering from outright funny to light realism. And usually featuring pretty girls. In the mid fifties he did four issues of a unique Pat Boone comic book, also from DC, which featurd not only comic book stories, but also illustrated text features and fashion pages. A bit of a throughback to a genre that was more popular in the late forties, I have to say, but the style was unique. The comic book stories had no borders and no text balloons as such. Oksner used his most illustrative style for them, producing a forgotten but highly remarkable gem.
Friday, January 25, 2013
Female Illustrator
Thursday Story Strip Day.
I have done posts on Bob Oksner's forties adventure strip Cairo Jones twice before. Since I have some new scans that go in between those samples, I have copied both here to give you an overview of this series - ending in a set of not very nicely colored Sundays from 1947.
Thursday Story Strip Day.
I have done posts on Bob Oksner's forties adventure strip Cairo Jones twice before. Since I have some new scans that go in between those samples, I have copied both here to give you an overview of this series - ending in a set of not very nicely colored Sundays from 1947.
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