What The Buck?

Saturday Some More Leftovers Day.

Some time ago I shared a couple of interesting illustrations fro Mickey Mouse Club Magazine by people such as soryboard genius Bill Peet. Here is one more and another interesting feature by Dick Huemer and Phil Hartley. This might be as good a place as any to tell you I just recieved my copy of Classic Comic Press' complete reprint of Dick Huemer and Paul Murray's Buck O'Rue. I have shown some samples of this strip, but as soon as I heard Charles Pelto was doing a complete edition (with a cover by Dutch artist Gerben Valkema in a spot on Paul Murray imitation) I stopped uploading ine. Well, it's everything I hopes for, in high quality reprinting. If you remember Murray's Mickey Mouse fondly or are into parody strips, this one is great to get or ask for for any occasion.

Buckle Up

Thursday Story Strip Day.

For story day I have a less than complete set of Buck O'Rue strips from dec 1951, but I don't think the Paul Murray fans will mind. Paul Murray was one of the more recognizable artists in the Disney comic books. Lots of people remember him from his Mickey Mouse and Goofy adventures. For Buck O'Rue he teamed up with Disney writer, cartoonist and later Mickey Mouse Club favorite Roy Williams. There is more if you follow the tag.

Bucking the Trend

Thursday Story Day.

As usual I want to give you something to read on a thursday. Usually that means I am showing a mor realisticly drawn strip. But today we have one of those rare cartoon continuity strips. Buck O'Rue appeared I newspapers between Jan 15 1951 and somewhere in 1953. I first saw it, when Alan Holtz showen two weeks in september 2006. If you go to the Striper's Guide and look for Buck O'Rue, you'll find a publicity piece from Editors and Publishers as well. I agree with Alan that the writing on this stip ia the weak point, but the art is by Paul Murray, who was not the best Mickey Mouse artist ever, but if you grew up with the Disney comics as I did, he will be instantly recognizable as he was one of the most frequent ones. His work outside of Disney (his comic book work outside of Disney as well as his saucy cartoons) have been getting quite some attention on the web. So here are two more weeks of his one and only outing as a newspaper strip artist. The writer wasn't too bad either. He sold a lot of funny cartoons to all the magazines all through the fifties. But having a lot of funny names and satirical characters isn't the same as having good stories.