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vanmai yeu em on Chủ Nhật, 25 tháng 5, 2014
It would not have seemed that summer vacation was coming with its mouth-watering anticipation of 12 weeks of freedom from school had I not had the large Dell squarebound vacation specials. They arrived in April or May to remind me those golden-hued days would be upon me. But that was illusion. Summer vacation was usually not that good; it was mostly unstructured and boring, and worse than boring it was hot. I often retreated to a shady spot behind the garage with a stack of comic books, including the Dell specials, to read and wait out the heat of the day.
Bugs Bunny’s Vacation Funnies was part of that reading. I’m posting the lead story from that title’s issue #2 (1952). It’s a funny fantasy. Bugs travels through time to meet his and Elmer Fudd’s ancestors in the town of Salem. The art is by Fred Abranz (1909-1992), an animator/comic book artist I associate with Bugs. You can see more examples of Abranz’s work from Mykal at The Big Blog of Kids’ Comics and a Chilly Willy story by Abranz from Steve at Four Color Shadows.
The cover, attributed to longtime Bugs Bunny comic strip artist Ralph Heimdahl, has Porky and Petunia swimming in their clothes!
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vanmai yeu em on Chủ Nhật, 11 tháng 7, 2010
Number 770
"B" is for...Buettner's Bugs
Welcome to Pappy's Plan B week. Actually, there was no plan. When I put together the postings for this week of July 11 I noticed the letter "B" seemed to fit into each posting. Since I'm one to jump on any opportunity to create a theme, despite the misnomer, this is Plan B week!
This Bugs Bunny opus, another story involving cross-dressing (see Pappy's #760) takes up a familiar funny animal Western plot; an uncle is missing from his ranch Out West, so our heroes go into action.
In Dell Four Color #48, Porky Of the Mounties, drawn by Carl Barks, Porky masquerades as a Canadian Mounted Policeman, but in this one he masquerades as Petunia Pig. When he puts on a dress and wig he looks just like her. Well.
Carl Buettner, who had worked for Disney and Harman and Ising, and had also drawn the Charley McCarthy comic strip during his career, drew the Bugs Bunny stories in this issue. Buettner was quite an interesting artist, who before his animation career had drawn cartoons for Captain Billy's Whiz Bang and sexy illustrations for the notorious Spicy line of pulps in the mid-1930s. You can check out some of that Spicy work here.
Buettner didn't have any trouble adapting to the funny animal comic book page, and these familiar Warner Bros icons. From Dell Comics Bugs Bunny Four Color #33, 1943:
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vanmai yeu em on Thứ Sáu, 20 tháng 11, 2009
Number 632
Billy Dollar
This is the second World War II-era strip I've posted with a theme of buying U.S. War Bonds. The first is here. Someone at the U.S. Department of Propaganda probably approached comic book publishers and asked them to encourage the kiddies to spend their money on savings stamps or bonds.
After you read this story by Walt Kelly from Our Gang Comics #6, 1943, I'll tell you something about War Bonds.
OK, back again, are we. Here's what I just read from the Associated Press on Sunday, October 25, 2009: War Bonds matured after 40 years. By the 1980s, when the 40 years were up, many bonds had been lost, destroyed, forgotten, the owner had died, were sitting unclaimed in safety deposit boxes or at the bottom of landfills. The U.S. government made no announcements, they made no effort to inform or find original owners of these bonds, so according to a lawsuit filed by several states, $16.7 billion is owed by the federal government as unclaimed property on unredeemed bonds. The states figure they are owed the money. Huh. Well, I guess they can try to get it.
In the 1940s and 1950s there was always a push to get kids to buy savings stamps every week. I never bought in. I guess I'm just not very patriotic, or I didn't want to wait 40 years to get my money out. (Too bad. The forty year maturation period would have been up for me years ago and I could've cashed in!)
During World War II even Bugs Bunny got into the act.
