Showing posts with label Joe Kubert. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joe Kubert. Show all posts
Sunday, July 16, 2023
Green Conservation
Sunday Green Beret Extra.
Over the years I have shared some of the Sunday pages from Tales of the Green beret by Joe Kubert. I never got enough of them to provide a good readble run, exspecially not since the strip was one of those that spread the storyline over dailies and Sundays. Over on the Comic Strip Appreciation Group on Facebook a guy called Robert Hirch has started sharing all of the stories from the start, using a complete collection of tabloid pages and pretty good dailies jhe got who knows where. The tabloid version of Tales of the Green Baret is exactly the same as the half page version, which is pretty rare. Usually a panel was dropped in the transition.
Anyway, that leaves me free to share my incompled scans without worrying you can read the whole thing. If you want, go to Facebook and tell Robert I sent you. If you don't, just enjoy the pretty pictures.
Sunday, June 30, 2019
Art Comparison
Sunday Corrective Measures.
Having shown almost all Mort Meskin pages on Sundays here, when someone online suggested they had found another unknown Meskin story in Standard's Gangworld #5, I had to have a look. At first I agreed, but taking a second look I thought it may be Bernard Baily imitating Meskin's line. It is a hard destinction to make. A couple of years ago, I almost bought an original Meskin page from Heritage, which turned out to be Bailey as well (after I lost the bid). On The Digital Comics Museum and the Grand Comic Book Base, they follow Jim Vadeboncoeur's lead and say it's Jerry Grandenetti. That could be true as well, as Grandenetti at that time could look like anyone.
Having shown almost all Mort Meskin pages on Sundays here, when someone online suggested they had found another unknown Meskin story in Standard's Gangworld #5, I had to have a look. At first I agreed, but taking a second look I thought it may be Bernard Baily imitating Meskin's line. It is a hard destinction to make. A couple of years ago, I almost bought an original Meskin page from Heritage, which turned out to be Bailey as well (after I lost the bid). On The Digital Comics Museum and the Grand Comic Book Base, they follow Jim Vadeboncoeur's lead and say it's Jerry Grandenetti. That could be true as well, as Grandenetti at that time could look like anyone.
Saturday, June 08, 2019
Out Of Whack
Saturday Leftover Day.
A couple of years ago, I wrote an article for Alter Ego (it actually got so big it was spread over two issues) about all the Mad comic book imitations. I wanted to turn it into a book, but John Benson and Fantagraphics beat me to it. Instead I wrote a book about the Mad Magazine imitations Behaving Madly, which went on to win an Eisner Award nomination. If I had done the Mad comic book imitators book, I would have tried to include one of the stories from the 3D book Whack #1. But not as a 3D story. Last week I tried to see if I could turn the 3D story into a clear line 2D version and it went pretty well. For print, it would probably have needen even more restauration ans possibly some coloring. But here you are. I don't think there are many people who have actually read it (even if they have the 3D book with glasses). A Dick Tracy parody by none other than Joe Kubert.
A couple of years ago, I wrote an article for Alter Ego (it actually got so big it was spread over two issues) about all the Mad comic book imitations. I wanted to turn it into a book, but John Benson and Fantagraphics beat me to it. Instead I wrote a book about the Mad Magazine imitations Behaving Madly, which went on to win an Eisner Award nomination. If I had done the Mad comic book imitators book, I would have tried to include one of the stories from the 3D book Whack #1. But not as a 3D story. Last week I tried to see if I could turn the 3D story into a clear line 2D version and it went pretty well. For print, it would probably have needen even more restauration ans possibly some coloring. But here you are. I don't think there are many people who have actually read it (even if they have the 3D book with glasses). A Dick Tracy parody by none other than Joe Kubert.
Saturday, February 23, 2019
The Hunting Grounds of Yesteryear
Saturday Leftover Extra.
My regular followers will know I have been showing some of Alex Toth's rarely seen early work for DC on Sundays. From those same books, otehr stuff emerges every once in a while. Here is a three page story by Joe Kubert for Jimmy Wakely #12. It is my favorite period of Kubert's work; when after his learning years he had become a master storyteller, but had not yet started to adjust his inkline to the lighter version we knwo from the sixties onwards.
My regular followers will know I have been showing some of Alex Toth's rarely seen early work for DC on Sundays. From those same books, otehr stuff emerges every once in a while. Here is a three page story by Joe Kubert for Jimmy Wakely #12. It is my favorite period of Kubert's work; when after his learning years he had become a master storyteller, but had not yet started to adjust his inkline to the lighter version we knwo from the sixties onwards.
Sunday, February 18, 2018
Sockittohim
Sunday Kubert Collection.
This is the second and last installment of Joe Kubert's western strip Alabam for Cowpuncher (#2). As last week, I have followed it with a story by John Small(e), signed Jack Ross. What a weird style that guy had.
This is the second and last installment of Joe Kubert's western strip Alabam for Cowpuncher (#2). As last week, I have followed it with a story by John Small(e), signed Jack Ross. What a weird style that guy had.
Sunday, February 11, 2018
Ku-Blam!
Sundy Kubert Creativity.
Haveing finished my run of Jerry Robinson's Alfred stories for Barnab Comics, I have decided to try and find woe of Joe Kubert's work from the late forties and early fifties. I like this period of his work, when he had moved away from DC and his earliest influences and before he returned to DC to further develope his style. He used heavy blacks in those days and you can still see the influece of Will Eisner, but his figures became more realistic. There is quite a lot of it, some of which has been reprinted. But not everything.
Today I am starting with the first of two Alabam stories he did for Cowpuncher. It still has his early style, similar to the work he did on Hawkman for DC (which partly made his fame). He has not yet proberly found his style, using the black ink to hide any flaws. The use of black backgrounds seems to hark back to Mort Meksin, who was a big influence on Kubert.
With it I have also reprinted a story by un unfamiliar artis called Jack Ross. It seemed familiar, looking like a DC artist who was using some of the same tricks as Mort Meskin. Turns out that Jack Ross is one of the pseudonyms for John Small(e). It's primitive work, but I alwasy like it for it's raw energy and uniqueness.
Haveing finished my run of Jerry Robinson's Alfred stories for Barnab Comics, I have decided to try and find woe of Joe Kubert's work from the late forties and early fifties. I like this period of his work, when he had moved away from DC and his earliest influences and before he returned to DC to further develope his style. He used heavy blacks in those days and you can still see the influece of Will Eisner, but his figures became more realistic. There is quite a lot of it, some of which has been reprinted. But not everything.
Today I am starting with the first of two Alabam stories he did for Cowpuncher. It still has his early style, similar to the work he did on Hawkman for DC (which partly made his fame). He has not yet proberly found his style, using the black ink to hide any flaws. The use of black backgrounds seems to hark back to Mort Meksin, who was a big influence on Kubert.
With it I have also reprinted a story by un unfamiliar artis called Jack Ross. It seemed familiar, looking like a DC artist who was using some of the same tricks as Mort Meskin. Turns out that Jack Ross is one of the pseudonyms for John Small(e). It's primitive work, but I alwasy like it for it's raw energy and uniqueness.
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