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.
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Showing posts with label I Love Lucy. 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.
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.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
I Love Philip
Wednesday Advertising Day.
Here are some more cigarette ads, starting with a couple of Camels ads I hope I haven't shown before.
May 4 1947:
June 6 1947:
March 29 1951:
Whoever did these Philip Morris ads I don't know, but he obviously was a major talent. Was it Wexler? Or are we seeing an early sample of Leonard Starr's work? I have shown some of these before, including another Lucy ad in color. There probably was a series of those, when the tv show was just starting even.
April 1 1950:
May 21 1950:
Nov 30 1952:
Wednesday Advertising Day.
Here are some more cigarette ads, starting with a couple of Camels ads I hope I haven't shown before.
May 4 1947:
June 6 1947:
March 29 1951:
Whoever did these Philip Morris ads I don't know, but he obviously was a major talent. Was it Wexler? Or are we seeing an early sample of Leonard Starr's work? I have shown some of these before, including another Lucy ad in color. There probably was a series of those, when the tv show was just starting even.
April 1 1950:
May 21 1950:
Nov 30 1952:
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