When Milt Caniff announced that he was leaving Terry and the Pirtes to do a new strip for a different syndicate at better conitions, every artist and his dog tried out as his replacement. Surprisingly, not many of those try-out strips survived. I wonder if there ever was a Chicago Tribune Archive and where it went. In my files, tehre is only one and I failed to note where it was fom or who did it. Maybe one of y regular visitors recognizes it? After that two early Sunday by the 'winner' George Wunder, which show why at least graphically he was worth the job.
Showing posts with label Terry and the Pirates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Terry and the Pirates. Show all posts
Sunday, December 07, 2014
Legal Piracy
Thursday Story Strip Day.
When Milt Caniff announced that he was leaving Terry and the Pirtes to do a new strip for a different syndicate at better conitions, every artist and his dog tried out as his replacement. Surprisingly, not many of those try-out strips survived. I wonder if there ever was a Chicago Tribune Archive and where it went. In my files, tehre is only one and I failed to note where it was fom or who did it. Maybe one of y regular visitors recognizes it? After that two early Sunday by the 'winner' George Wunder, which show why at least graphically he was worth the job.
When Milt Caniff announced that he was leaving Terry and the Pirtes to do a new strip for a different syndicate at better conitions, every artist and his dog tried out as his replacement. Surprisingly, not many of those try-out strips survived. I wonder if there ever was a Chicago Tribune Archive and where it went. In my files, tehre is only one and I failed to note where it was fom or who did it. Maybe one of y regular visitors recognizes it? After that two early Sunday by the 'winner' George Wunder, which show why at least graphically he was worth the job.
Thursday, October 02, 2014
Rookie
Wednesday Advertising Day.
Of all the Milt Caniff imitators Lee Elias is one of the most interestng. He is ften said to have been an ex-assistant of Milt Caniff while in fact he never realy was. he worked as an assistant ot Caniff's succesor on Terry and the Pirates when it was still very Caniff-like in the late forties and he worked on the Terry and the Pirates comic book, which were filled with Caniff's material and included some new filler stories by Elias. And of course, his own science fiction srip Beyond mars lookd like Tery and the Pirates in space. But he also worked on Black Cat and drew romance, war and horror covers and stories for Harvey, moved to DC in the late fifties to draw a whole slew of fantasy stories as well as some of their second tier series (Green Arrow, Tommy Tomorrow), only to reinvent himself as a brutally realistic artist on The Rook for Warren magazines. In between ll that he did a couple of comic ad seres as well, incluing this one, which seems as if it is reformated from a enwspaper ad but I have only ever seen it in comic books.
Of all the Milt Caniff imitators Lee Elias is one of the most interestng. He is ften said to have been an ex-assistant of Milt Caniff while in fact he never realy was. he worked as an assistant ot Caniff's succesor on Terry and the Pirates when it was still very Caniff-like in the late forties and he worked on the Terry and the Pirates comic book, which were filled with Caniff's material and included some new filler stories by Elias. And of course, his own science fiction srip Beyond mars lookd like Tery and the Pirates in space. But he also worked on Black Cat and drew romance, war and horror covers and stories for Harvey, moved to DC in the late fifties to draw a whole slew of fantasy stories as well as some of their second tier series (Green Arrow, Tommy Tomorrow), only to reinvent himself as a brutally realistic artist on The Rook for Warren magazines. In between ll that he did a couple of comic ad seres as well, incluing this one, which seems as if it is reformated from a enwspaper ad but I have only ever seen it in comic books.
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Saturday Leftover Day.
Have you got the IDW Terry and the Pirates reprint series? I still have to read the last one (fially a strip that is as much fun to read as to look at), so I hadn't come across this one. An illustration blog I flllow has a feature called 'one perfect drawing'. This is my entry for 'one perfect Sunday'.
And another one that comes a month before that.
Thursday, April 11, 2013
You're My Wunder Wall
Thursday Story Strip Day.
When Milt Caniff stopped doing Terry and he Piates, he had given his syndicate more than a year's notice, so they could find the most suitable replacement. Several artists auditioned, but in the end the job went oto a relative unknown artist, George Wunder. George had been a staff artist at Associated Press and although his own style was not a close imitation of Caniff's, it was similar. And he had all the time to study it and see what he could use. For the first year, he stayed pretty close to Caniff's style. It was only later that he developed his own style for the strip, which was competent enough, but ended up being called dull in all the history books. Still Terry and the Pirates remained a huge succes in all the papers al through the fifties and sixties and maybe it deserves a second look. So here are some assorted Sundays and a longer run of Sundays and dailies from 1947.
Thursday Story Strip Day.
When Milt Caniff stopped doing Terry and he Piates, he had given his syndicate more than a year's notice, so they could find the most suitable replacement. Several artists auditioned, but in the end the job went oto a relative unknown artist, George Wunder. George had been a staff artist at Associated Press and although his own style was not a close imitation of Caniff's, it was similar. And he had all the time to study it and see what he could use. For the first year, he stayed pretty close to Caniff's style. It was only later that he developed his own style for the strip, which was competent enough, but ended up being called dull in all the history books. Still Terry and the Pirates remained a huge succes in all the papers al through the fifties and sixties and maybe it deserves a second look. So here are some assorted Sundays and a longer run of Sundays and dailies from 1947.
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Is That You, Charlie?
Friday Comic Book Day.
Today's post is a bit late, since it took some time to asemble and upload. The early Harvey books are always interesting because of their policy to add short stories and fillers to everthing. Even the comics that reprinted newspaper material, like Joe Palooka or Kerry Drake. The early issues of Harvey Terry and the Pirates riprint series had fillers by Bob Powell. From #13 they started with three page stories about Hotshot Charlie. Although he was introduced by Milt Caniff, he later became almost a regular on the Terry strip as it was continued by George Wunder. By adding the Hotshot Charlie fillers to the reprint book, Harvey created a link between the past and the present. But these stories were not drawn in the new style George Wunder had set, but in the old style by Lee Elias. It is often said he worked as an assistant for Caniff of Terry, but I am not sure if the work on these books doesn't account for that. Jerry Bails of the Who's Who does not mention him assisting Caniff on his strip (although an unidentified period as background assistant on Steve Canyon is mentioned. At this point, Elias was already drawing Black Cat for Harvey, in a style which was heavily influenced by Caniff. Caniff himself had stopped doing Terry in 1946, preparing for Steve Canyon all through the last year. Whatever the sequence of events here was, Elias proved himself to be a very capable Caniff imitator. After only two Hotshot Charlie stories, he was also asked to do the covers for the remainder of the series. Or at least, Caniff stopped signing them and after that some of the covers are so obviously by Elias, that I am inclined to think he did all of them. These details can be important for collectors - I saw the cover to T&tP #15 for sale for 500 euro as a Caniff cover. And I got the Hotshot Charlie original pages for the story in #25 for $50 each. What a difference a name makes. They were attributed to Elias, with which I agree. Elias did not sign the stories, although he did sign the Bike ad in #15. He had a safety page in #13, which I am adding as well.
No Hotshot Charlie in this issue.
Friday Comic Book Day.
Today's post is a bit late, since it took some time to asemble and upload. The early Harvey books are always interesting because of their policy to add short stories and fillers to everthing. Even the comics that reprinted newspaper material, like Joe Palooka or Kerry Drake. The early issues of Harvey Terry and the Pirates riprint series had fillers by Bob Powell. From #13 they started with three page stories about Hotshot Charlie. Although he was introduced by Milt Caniff, he later became almost a regular on the Terry strip as it was continued by George Wunder. By adding the Hotshot Charlie fillers to the reprint book, Harvey created a link between the past and the present. But these stories were not drawn in the new style George Wunder had set, but in the old style by Lee Elias. It is often said he worked as an assistant for Caniff of Terry, but I am not sure if the work on these books doesn't account for that. Jerry Bails of the Who's Who does not mention him assisting Caniff on his strip (although an unidentified period as background assistant on Steve Canyon is mentioned. At this point, Elias was already drawing Black Cat for Harvey, in a style which was heavily influenced by Caniff. Caniff himself had stopped doing Terry in 1946, preparing for Steve Canyon all through the last year. Whatever the sequence of events here was, Elias proved himself to be a very capable Caniff imitator. After only two Hotshot Charlie stories, he was also asked to do the covers for the remainder of the series. Or at least, Caniff stopped signing them and after that some of the covers are so obviously by Elias, that I am inclined to think he did all of them. These details can be important for collectors - I saw the cover to T&tP #15 for sale for 500 euro as a Caniff cover. And I got the Hotshot Charlie original pages for the story in #25 for $50 each. What a difference a name makes. They were attributed to Elias, with which I agree. Elias did not sign the stories, although he did sign the Bike ad in #15. He had a safety page in #13, which I am adding as well.
No Hotshot Charlie in this issue.
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