Little Lulu 0

[classics hound-migration]

Once you get into the characters a bit, you enjoy the humor more. This is like "Big Bang Theory". Got to learn who each kid is and their quirks.

[jmg3637]

here are a few of my Four Color Lulu's. Don's think I have ever read any of them.

 

 

 

 

SHe was very popular back then, seems to have been published almost monthly until she spunoff into her own series in Feb of 48

 

 

[Sarg]

Once you get into the characters a bit, you enjoy the humor more. This is like "Big Bang Theory". Got to learn who each kid is and their quirks.

 

You're probably right. There's a running gag of Tubby always suspecting Lulu's father of foul play and donning the role of "The Spider" to uncover the plot. That's usually pretty fun.

 

I don't understand the comparison between Stanley and Barks. Barks's rep is built on him being a writer and artist. Stanley did not draw 99% of the Lulu comics, Irving Tripp did. Plus, the drawings are so simple anyone could have drawn them.

[Sarg]

I like the early covers with the borders.

 

here are a few of my Four Color Lulu's. Don's think I have ever read any of them.

 

 

 

 

SHe was very popular back then, seems to have been published almost monthly until she spunoff into her own series in Feb of 48

 

[adamstrange]

Once you get into the characters a bit, you enjoy the humor more. This is like "Big Bang Theory". Got to learn who each kid is and their quirks.

 

You're probably right. There's a running gag of Tubby always suspecting Lulu's father of foul play and donning the role of "The Spider" to uncover the plot. That's usually pretty fun.

 

I don't understand the comparison between Stanley and Barks. Barks's rep is built on him being a writer and artist. Stanley did not draw 99% of the Lulu comics, Irving Tripp did. Plus, the drawings are so simple anyone could have drawn them.

Stanley was the initial artist but before too long provided complete scripts and page/panel layouts for Irving Tripp so he was much more than a writer.

 

In addition, what makes a comic artist great is his ability to tell a story. That the drawings were simple does not mean that they were easy to create. Rather, considerable thought had to be put into defining just the right visual imagery to engage the reader and effortlessly propel the story.

[50YrsCollctngCmcs]

Once you get into the characters a bit, you enjoy the humor more. This is like "Big Bang Theory". Got to learn who each kid is and their quirks.

 

You're probably right. There's a running gag of Tubby always suspecting Lulu's father of foul play and donning the role of "The Spider" to uncover the plot. That's usually pretty fun.

 

I don't understand the comparison between Stanley and Barks. Barks's rep is built on him being a writer and artist. Stanley did not draw 99% of the Lulu comics, Irving Tripp did. Plus, the drawings are so simple anyone could have drawn them.

Stanley was the initial artist but before too long provided complete scripts and page/panel layouts for Irving Tripp so he was much more than a writer.

 

In addition, what makes a comic artist great is his ability to tell a story. That the drawings were simple does not mean that they were easy to create. Rather, considerable thought had to be put into defining just the right visual imagery to engage the reader and effortlessly propel the story.

 

Yes, so simple that I'd ask you to try to draw them! Seriously, one sign of a great illustrator is his or her ability to say much with little. The simplicity of the Lulu work belies the talent behind it. Another example of this simple but effective style are the Harvey comics.

[BangZoom]

here are a few of my Four Color Lulu's. Don't think I have ever read any of them.

 

 

 

 

 

I posted a story from Four Color #146 a couple of years ago.

 

Check it out. It think it's really funny. It's typical of some of the humor you'll find in the series.

 

 

 

For those who don't have the issue, you can read it online: Link

[damonwad]

Thanks for the link to the story BZ. My dad used to read Little Lulu when he was younger but this is the first story I've read. Great stuff.

I got a good laugh from the panel with Lulu's mom eying the axe.

[rjpb]

FC 165 has a story where Lulu smokes Doll's hair and hallucinates, one of the oddest LL stories ever. My favorites are the Tubby detective stories mentioned above. Stanley was at his best when writing Lulu and Tubby together.

 

My least favorite are the Witch Hazel stories she would tell Alvin.

[adamstrange]

Another example of this simple but effective style are the Harvey comics.

Warren Kremer's work for Harvey is exceptional.

[ciorac]

FC 165 has a story where Lulu smokes Doll's hair and hallucinates, one of the oddest LL stories ever. My favorites are the Tubby detective stories mentioned above. Stanley was at his best when writing Lulu and Tubby together.

 

My least favorite are the Witch Hazel stories she would tell Alvin.

 

I've read nearly all of them thanks to the reprint series, I enjoyed many of them. But after a while they got tiresome

[rjpb]

FC 165 has a story where Lulu smokes Doll's hair and hallucinates, one of the oddest LL stories ever. My favorites are the Tubby detective stories mentioned above. Stanley was at his best when writing Lulu and Tubby together.

 

My least favorite are the Witch Hazel stories she would tell Alvin.

 

I've read nearly all of them thanks to the reprint series, I enjoyed many of them. But after a while they got tiresome

 

That could probably be said of every long running comic series, but I suppose when their is no larger continuity or change in creative teams the sameness can get old faster. It's why I tend to enjoy GA reprints less in archive hardback form than when they are doled out in smaller bites. I was thrilled when the Jack Cole Plastic Man archives started, even though the earlier stories were weaker than the later ones, but stopped buying them around volume 6 or 7, as I began to feel I was reading the same stories over and over.

[Scrooge]

FC 165 has a story where Lulu smokes Doll's hair and hallucinates, one of the oddest LL stories ever. My favorites are the Tubby detective stories mentioned above. Stanley was at his best when writing Lulu and Tubby together.

 

My least favorite are the Witch Hazel stories she would tell Alvin.

 

I've read nearly all of them thanks to the reprint series, I enjoyed many of them. But after a while they got tiresome

 

That could probably be said of every long running comic series, but I suppose when their is no larger continuity or change in creative teams the sameness can get old faster. It's why I tend to enjoy GA reprints less in archive hardback form than when they are doled out in smaller bites. I was thrilled when the Jack Cole Plastic Man archives started, even though the earlier stories were weaker than the later ones, but stopped buying them around volume 6 or 7, as I began to feel I was reading the same stories over and over.

 

They only published them up to 8 but I could have used more. Coming out every year or so it wasn't bad to read them. Reading them through shows more of the sameness but I've never experienced fatigue reading those. I did get Spirit fatigue during the war and post-war years but not on the Plastic Man.

[G.A.tor]

my wife and I are working on a complete run of LIttle Lulu... Jamie graham was instrumental in our start!

[classics hound-migration]

Glad to see so many interests. I have my set listed on the Registry, still waiting for 30 more to be graded. I suspect it's a fool's game to grade the later issues, but hey, lots of high condition and it's my fix. I am putting a second set together just to read. Wonder if there is a pill to slow up this sickness?

[G.A.tor]

We are just putting together a reader set.

[Sqeggs]

Happy to just score this one.

 

[Sqeggs]

And this SA one.

 

[Pat Calhoun]

bc of 1953 - indicia says 'a collection of outstanding Little Lulu stories over the past years' then lists 1945-6-7

[Sqeggs]

bc of 1953 - indicia says 'a collection of outstanding Little Lulu stories over the past years' then lists 1945-6-7

 

According to GCD, it collects stories from FCs 74, 97, 131, 139, 146, 158, and 165.