Showing posts with label Captain Easy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Captain Easy. Show all posts
Friday, September 17, 2021
It Ain't Easy
Saturday Leftover Day.
Roy Crane's Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy was a very influential strip, because if the ease with with it combined simple stylized storytelling with esciting characters and story lines. It has been reprinted several times and no comic fan or historian should be without those. But before Captain Easy joined Washing Tubbs the third fot their adventures, Roy Crane and his rich boy character had plenty of exciting trips themselves.
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Not So Easy But Still Easy
Thursday Story Strip Day.
Walt Scott took over the Sunday Captain Easy from Roy Crane in the late forties and continued it into the fifties, until the team that produced the daily took over the Sunday as well. His Easy has been neglected and maligned because he clearly was no Roy Crane. Then again, who is? Well, actually Leslie Turner, who took over the daily strip was the next best thing to Crane as he had been his assistant on the last few years of the strip. He actually was a very skilled artist and there are some who like his Easy as much as Crane's. Walt Scott was an NEA utility players, who was used to do political cartoons, specialty drawings and drew a lot of their special Christmas strips. He is best know for creating and drawing The Little Folk, where you can see his skill as a designer and a cartoonist. Which is all to say he was less suited to an adventure strip. Still, there are two areas he excelled at: the design of the strip, especially in the way he used color and pretty girls. In fact, the girls alone deserve him more attentio than he has had over the years. To give him the attention I think he deserves, I have bought a couple of yeras of his Sundays, which I will share when I have scanned and cleaned them. Until then, here are a couple from the end of his run in black and white and one I did myself, just to whet your appetite.
Walt Scott took over the Sunday Captain Easy from Roy Crane in the late forties and continued it into the fifties, until the team that produced the daily took over the Sunday as well. His Easy has been neglected and maligned because he clearly was no Roy Crane. Then again, who is? Well, actually Leslie Turner, who took over the daily strip was the next best thing to Crane as he had been his assistant on the last few years of the strip. He actually was a very skilled artist and there are some who like his Easy as much as Crane's. Walt Scott was an NEA utility players, who was used to do political cartoons, specialty drawings and drew a lot of their special Christmas strips. He is best know for creating and drawing The Little Folk, where you can see his skill as a designer and a cartoonist. Which is all to say he was less suited to an adventure strip. Still, there are two areas he excelled at: the design of the strip, especially in the way he used color and pretty girls. In fact, the girls alone deserve him more attentio than he has had over the years. To give him the attention I think he deserves, I have bought a couple of yeras of his Sundays, which I will share when I have scanned and cleaned them. Until then, here are a couple from the end of his run in black and white and one I did myself, just to whet your appetite.
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Scott Of The Seven Seas
Thursday Story Strip Day.
I mentioned Walt Scott and how he took over the Sunday version of Captain Easy when Roy Crane left to do Buzz Sawyer. He doesn't do well in the history books and indeed, his version of Easy is nothing compared to Crane. But he does have a nice clean style and a great sense of design. And his girls aren't too shabby either. And at least this version is still an adventure strip. When Leslie Turner too over the Sundays (after doing only the dailies alongside Scott on the Sundays) he turned it into a sort of gag strip (very well drawn, though). I don't think Scott did these until Turner took over. His own strip The Little People started in 1952, so he couldn't have done both. As you can see, these Sundays should be seen in color, not in the crappy black and white microfiche form I have here. I have included a couple of color scans of my own, where you can see how lovely the colors were. Same goes for The Little People, by the way. I have many samples of it's fifteen year run, but very few of those work in black and white and clogged-up grey.
Thursday Story Strip Day.
I mentioned Walt Scott and how he took over the Sunday version of Captain Easy when Roy Crane left to do Buzz Sawyer. He doesn't do well in the history books and indeed, his version of Easy is nothing compared to Crane. But he does have a nice clean style and a great sense of design. And his girls aren't too shabby either. And at least this version is still an adventure strip. When Leslie Turner too over the Sundays (after doing only the dailies alongside Scott on the Sundays) he turned it into a sort of gag strip (very well drawn, though). I don't think Scott did these until Turner took over. His own strip The Little People started in 1952, so he couldn't have done both. As you can see, these Sundays should be seen in color, not in the crappy black and white microfiche form I have here. I have included a couple of color scans of my own, where you can see how lovely the colors were. Same goes for The Little People, by the way. I have many samples of it's fifteen year run, but very few of those work in black and white and clogged-up grey.
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