Ladies Day.

Sunday Dizzy Day. 

It's Me Dilly! waas a delightful comic strip from the late fifties and early sixties on a familiar subject. The slightly rique adventures of a pretty single woman  in the big city. Dilly may not have been as dumb as her predessors Dumb Dora, My Friend Irma and Jeanie or her successor Soozi, but she wasn't always very bright either. She was thought up by Mel Casson when they were the chairmen of the Cartoonists Society in the late fifties. Cassosn was the writer and Andriola was supposed to be the artist - which meant that he let his Kerry Drake assistant Sururi Gumen do the art on Dilly as well. In fact, he may have done all of it here, while Kerry Drake might have had some actual work done by Andriola (or another assistant). The art is the star here, but the gags are not as bad as they could have been.

 

It's That Woman Again

Saturday Leftover Day.

In Dutch we have a terrific word, 'bijvangst'. I just checked and saw it exists in English as well, although I have never seen it used metaphorically, the way it is over here. 'Bijvangst' (or 'bycatch') is a term from the fishing industry, meaning all of the stuff fishermen catch in their nets while they were dregging up something else.

I have been downloading and clipping some stuff for future use. Today's presentation is the 'bycatch' of that fishing trip. I have always like Alfred Andriola and Mel Casson's It's Me, Dilly. A silly strip about a young model type girl in the big city, it was actually drawn by Andriola's regular artist on his other strip Kerry Drake, Sururi Gumen. It is actually a better concept for Sururi's art style, a bit more sexy and a bit more funny than Kerry Drake ever was. The light and urban jokes of Mel Casson help a lot, too.

Although the quality of these Microfiche scan is not always the best, here is most of October 1957, one of the first years (possibly the first) of this short running strip. After that six I scanned myself from some clippings and worked on to make them better, and then a whole bunch I did earlier from 1958 and 1959.