Hello Readers, Today’s post is a follow up entry on Jimmy Hatlo’s comic strip, THEY’LL DO IT EVERY TIME, featuring an original sales brochure from 1949. This was intended for newspaper editors only, so I guess it qualifies as a rare item. The nice color is about what the “art” proofs had. Below are the covers and center spread. The brochure... Read More »
Hello All, Today, I will follow up on the topic of censorship and self-censorship. It features our point of view on what comics are about. I thought you might like to peruse this excerpt from a 1946 short essay written by Bradley Kelly (1894-1969), who was King Features’ vice president and top comics editor. “At King Features, we have... Read More »
Hello Readers, I thought you might be interested in a few more items on LITTLE IODINE. In our archives, we came across an unusual, battered item — a card that would be sent to a Jimmy Hatlo fan asking for an autograph. This one is still blank. It looks like it is from about 1950. Jimmy Hatlo was hugely popular, and hundreds of requests for originals... Read More »
Hello Archivist Readers, First, I’d just like to say I’m glad you all enjoyed the Dik Browne graph. It was even picked up by The Daily Cartoonist, which was very nice to see. Browne drew the graph in 1983, as part of a promotion urging features editors to run HI AND LOIS, which was then about to reach its 30th anniversary. It’s always... Read More »
VINTAGE MADNESS has ended, so we are now back to our regularly scheduled programming. I recently came across a historical timeline featuring HI AND LOIS, the final winners of VINTAGE MADNESS. The timeline was created in 1984 by Dik Browne and shows what Mr. Browne saw as milestones from the Eisenhower to Reagan years. He hadn’t considered computers... Read More »
Dear Faithful Readers, It’s all over. The day of days is here. No more balloting. No more overworked basketball metaphors. The funny Flagstons of HI AND LOIS scraped out a victory over JUDGE PARKER in a really close finish! Dik Browne’s HI AND LOIS of the 1950’s now joins DailyINK’s Vintage lineup, thanks to all of you voters who... Read More »
Well, the poll results are in and we have a real surprise victory. Ron Paul beat Mitt Romney! Well, that’s an April Fool’s joke. But what’s not a joke is that in our VINTAGE MADNESS election, THIMBLE THEATER lost to JUDGE PARKER! The one-eyed sailor just didn’t have the spinach to beat the bold jurist. The votes have been tabulated,... Read More »
Hello All, We are hurtling forward at the speed of a Lin-sonic bank shot toward the finals of our March Madness of vintage comics. The winner of last week’s battle between DENNIS THE MENACE and HI & LOIS is…drumroll please…HI & LOIS with 60 percent of the votes! This week’s contenders are THIMBLE THEATRE and JUDGE... Read More »
Hello, Readers, Most of the King Features continuities had separate stories in the daily and Sunday versions. Very rarely were series running with a daily and Sunday combined. There were only six FLASH GORDON stories in the 1970s like that. Other syndicates, such as News America Syndicate (NAS), have offered the daily-Sunday combination. King Features... Read More »
Hi Readers, VINTAGE MADNESS is starting to heat up! The winner of Round Three is THIMBLE THEATRE! Votes were cast heavily in the beginning of the week for the strip that launched Popeye’s historic career, but TIM TYLER’S LUCK started to turn later in the week and it almost managed an upset. But, alas, luck wouldn’t have it! And,... Read More »