Panelology

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[JazzMan]

heavens to betsy

Nice headlights.

 

Did anyone notice how Betsy's dress changed from strapless to having shoulder straps?

[generic user]

how about an odd ad? isn't the sense of impending disappointment almost palpable?

 

 

[Scrooge]

Yay: Comics are a time capsule of America's past!!

 

Yikes: Comics are a time capsule of America's past!!

 

Straight from Raggedy Ann & Andy # 31 from December 1948, here are 2 panels that should tell you everything you need to know about the way the comics portrayed Belindy, the Raggedy's maid.

 

I know it's 1948 but the speech given to Belindy is more 1920's Amos & Andy than a more illuminated post WW II America. What a long way still to the '60's in this comics aimed at children.

 

This is nothing worse than hearing how Warren Baxter butchers a Portuguese / Mexican accent in the 1928 version of the Cisco Kid story: In Old Arizona (which we were watching last night).

 

Such a long tradition ... that is continuing to this day on many TV shows

 

To better understand the panels, the Raggedys and Belindy were given the whiskers by The Snoop-wiggy, Wiggy-snoop and Hooky the goblin (I kid you not ) during their sleep from the broom's straw.

[generic user]

works for me!

[generic user]

remember girls- bend with the waist, not the knees

[generic user]

wind, lightning. same thing

 

or

 

"what the rooster saw"

 

[generic user]

the mouse approves

[generic user]

[generic user]

so iz i

 

[Senormac]

You have a one track mind Honky

[generic user]

You have a one track mind Honky

 

Scoorge posts socially relevant commentary and appreciation for fine artwork, I post pictures of pilgrims punching bears and cartoon cheesecake

[Scrooge]

You have a one track mind Honky

 

Scoorge posts socially relevant commentary and appreciation for fine artwork, I post pictures of pilgrims punching bears and cartoon cheesecake

 

All I know is that you are a bad influence ... now I look for cheesecake in my comics ...

 

[Scrooge]

I post pictures of pilgrims punching bears

 

sometimes, the bear wins ...

 

N.B.: If you wonder about To knock galley-west (as I was as a non-native speaker), here's some info: "To knock something or someone galleywest is Amer.Eng. slang (1875, originally in Mark Twain), a corruption of western England dialectal collyweston, name of a village in Northamptonshire that somehow came to signify "askew, not right."

[Senormac]

You have a one track mind Honky

 

Scoorge posts socially relevant commentary and appreciation for fine artwork, I post pictures of pilgrims punching bears and cartoon cheesecake

 

At least you are consistent. My contributions are completely random

[FlyingDonut]

You have a one track mind Honky

 

Scoorge posts socially relevant commentary and appreciation for fine artwork, I post pictures of pilgrims punching bears and cartoon cheesecake

 

At least you are consistent. My contributions are completely random

 

Custom title!

[Scrooge]

Is Sale a credited artist in Overstreet ? I've never come across his name before That kangaroo panel does look really good though.

 

Sale's work always used a very fine inking line for his Atlas War work and as mentioned also, he could bring on the violence in his stories. Here's a page-wide panel from Battle 8 (1952) I was reading this morning with some close quarters action in Korea. This would show better if the coloring was better calibrated ...

 

[Scrooge]

 

More than a panel, this end up being most of the page but I thought the artist (unknown) did a great job with this half-page showing the trekkers going to the river in a line and having the dialogue flow well and the eye following the action smoothly.

 

This is from Four Color 333 - Wilderness Trek where two Texan cowboys join a round-up and cattle drive in Australia.

 

[HouseofComics.Com]

Cool page--somehow seems more modern to me than the publication date would indicate.

[Scrooge]

Thanks for the comment Marc.

 

I am trying to finish Volume 7 of the reprint of On Stage by Len Starr and this panel struck me. It's a great use of black and I really get the feeling of an early evening stroll under a rain soak city with those shiny slick black reflections on the pavement as these people walk ensconced heavily in their warm and wet coats. In essence, I found the panel to be very evocative of the mood and location. Simply great work in this single intro panel to the December 15, 1965 daily.

 

Oh ... and yeah, I get excited by the little details a little too much