Sporting Chance

Sunday Surprise Day. Movies buffs who also collect comics will know there was a famous newspaper feature in the thirties and forties that combined movie titbits with extremely well done portraits in gorgeous color. Many of these Surday tearsheets fetch high prices if the depict a well know star, like Walt Disney of Stan and Ollie. A couple of years ago, I was surprised to see that there was a daily version as well, just as well executed. It was never as big a seller as the Sunday version, maybe because it was smaller and in black and white. Of course, I went and clipped a lot of them and shred them here. But most remain unseen after their first publication - even though they may depict very famous stars. Followers of this blog will also know that there was another similar panel by George Scarbo, a very prolific and well loved artist from the same period. He is best know for his Sunday only animal strip The Comic Zoo, but in the thirties he did various movie panels under various names. Some of which seem to have predated even Seein' Stars, going back to the twenties (and a whole other set of movie stars). All of the above can be found through the links. But what I did not knwo is there was another similar daily panel, at least in the early forties. I came across it, looking for some other stuff and cliped what I could find from a whole month. According to several sources, the artist, simply signing Bruno, is none other than early comics talent Bud Thompson. I would not have known. For more you can look here: https://www.lambiek.net/artists/t/thompson_bruno.htm

Stars In His Eyes

Saturday Leftover Day.

Feg Murray's Seein' Stars was one of the main features of KIng Features Puck Sunday section. It always sells well on eBay, probably because of the celebrity connections. And indeed, there are few newspaper strips that are often so framable. I myself have given away one or two as a present. It surprises me that there has never been a collection of the Sundays (although there was one of the dailies, only a fraction of the enormous amount Marray made). But maybe collectors of certain movie starts do not want a book filled with other big names.

Seeing Stuff

Monday Cartoon Day.

I like these Sunday pages of Seein' Stars. They are often clipped and sold seperately, which seems to make sense. Every ones in a while I run across a few in a complete paper. I am adding a similar panel George Scarbo did in the tiries and a Sunday version he did in 1944.

Here's Looking' At You, Feg

Saturday Leftover Day.

I love Feg Murray's Seein' Stars, expecially in color. Now here's a strip that should be collected on the web somewhere. I would never buy a book, but to be able to browse through twenty years of these online...