Squadron Supreme Hyperion vs. Nighthawk. Limited Series. Volume 1. Number 1
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Squadron Supreme Hyperion vs. Nighthawk. Limited Series. Volume 1. Number 1
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Squadron Supreme Hyperion vs. Nighthawk. Limited Series. Volume 1. Number 1
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100 Bullets. Volume 1. Number 74
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100 Bullets. Volume 1. Number 74
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Number 243
"…I strongs to the finich..."
Animation fans of the Fleischer Brothers, and of Popeye cartoons, should be thrilled by the four-disk DVD set of the venerable sailor. Sixty cartoons, plus extras like documentaries on Popeye creator Segar, voice actors like Billy Costello and Jack Mercer as Popeye, and other extras like old Bray silents and Fleischer "Out Of The Inkwell" series cartoons. Whew. That's a lot, and like most of these types of compilations, comes at a price. I got mine for $42.99 from Amazon.
Like other Americans of my generation, I grew up with these cartoons on afternoon television, and also with the Popeye comics strips and comic books, then drawn by Bud Sagendorf. I knew there was a difference between the print Popeye and animated Popeye.
For one thing, with only seven minutes per cartoon to work with, there was no room for subtlety. They reduced the intricate storylines of the Segar strips down to a very basic formula: a love triangle, sexual jealousy, and cartoon violence. They also turned Popeye into a Fleischer character with the anthropomorphic stuff they were famous for; the Fleischers really understood how to use cartoons to their true potential. Rather than trying to duplicate reality in these early cartoons they made sure that reality rarely intruded.
In the 1934 cartoon, "Barnacle Bill," one of my favorites because most of the cartoon is sung using the popular song of the day, the formula is clear. Bluto, as Barnacle Bill, is Olive's boyfriend, even though Popeye refuses to go away. There is the inevitable fight, which Popeye wins after eating his spinach. When he beats Barnacle Bill the fickle Olive then wants him, but he doesn't want her. You could about set a stopwatch to each of the cartoons in the series to see when the fight would start, and there were endless variations on the actual fighting, but the outcome was always the same: the spinach, the victor, Popeye, gets the "prize," Olive.
In the strip there was more room to tell a story. In this comic strip sequence from the same year, 1934, Popeye is a newspaper man, who hires a cartoonist, B. Loony Bullony, because comic cartoons is what readers want! I've scanned a sampling of these from the original printed strips, clipped from a newspaper of the day. The strips are printed longer than my scanner bed, so I've split them in half. There was a lot going on every day in the strip.
The Segar Popeye and the Fleischer Popeye were two characters with the same name, appearance and some of the same subsidiary characters. Each medium had its own needs and limitations. Segar, in his silent strips, couldn't provide the catchy theme song, inspired gravelly Costello/Mercer voice of Popeye or the screech of Mae Questal's Olive. On the other hand, by reducing the animated Popeye to stories of such short length none of the richness of Segar's strip could be presented. Despite those differences, Popeye was one of the Twentieth Century's greatest comic creations. The cartoons are a joy to watch, just as the strips are a joy to read.
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Number 242
Don't Wake The Dead
I've got to go back to work today. I've been off since December 21, during which time I have been practicing retirement. I do this just about every year. I want to retire. I'm ready for retirement. When I'm not working I don't have to get up at 4:00 in the morning, which is why a title like "Don't Wake The Dead" seems appropriate.
You think this story from a coverless issue of Ace Comics' The Beyond is a horror story…how about being a wage slave going back to 1965? Now that's a horror story.
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During my time off I read the biography, Schulz and Peanuts by David Michaelis. In 1947 Schulz, besides his day job at Art Instruction, Inc., was moonlighting as a letterer for the Catechetical Guild in St. Paul, Minnesota. According to page 167 of the biography, "[His boss, Roman] Baltes rewarded his efficiency, reliability, and thoroughness by having him draw the climactic panels of Is This Tomorrow--a dire prophecy of a Communist takeover tricked out as a "public service comic book.
I have never seen Is This Tomorrow, although I've seen the cover reproduced many times over the years. According to the biography, the comic book had over 4,000,000 copies in circulation at one point, so there have to be a lot of them out there. Has anyone ever looked at the last few panels and said, "By god, there's Charlie Brown!"?
