Showing posts with label Wilbert. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wilbert. Show all posts

Sunday, March 01, 2026

If You Don't Succeed, Try, Try and Fail Again

 Sunday Sunny Day.

I have shared large portions of Gill Fox's work here. He came to my attention as on eof the regulars at the Johnstone and Cushing agency, but I soon found out he had been a funny and adaptable artist long before and after thta. In teh firties he was one of the people wokring with Jack Cole and could do a pretty good approximation of his style. In the sixties he took over The Neighbours daily panel from George Clark. In the late fifties he adapted his style to that of Dennis the Menace's Hank Ketcham, creating the filler tabloid Sunday half Bumper to Bumper for the New York News. He also did his own Dennis the Menacd panel... twice. He started the feature Wilbur, a panel about a pesky kid like Dennis, interacting mostly with his dad. But is was smaller than Dennis an dprobably cheaper. The gags weren't up to Ketcham's standard (hey, even Ketcham's gags weren't always). and the feature seems to have disappeared after a couple of years. In 1958 the same kid reappeared as Wilbert. Maybe with the same old gags, maybe not. At least in one case, they were used in the same paper.

Monday, November 04, 2013

Wilbert The Wenace

Monday Cartoon Day.

In the late Fifties style chamleo Gil Fox did a small panel called Wilbert, which was little more than a Dennis the Menace imitation. Fox drew this in a simplifie version of Hank Ketcham's style, one of several he mastered. At the sae time he may have already been assisting Dik Brwone on Hi and Lois and the Tracey Twins in Boy's Life. He did this so expertly, that it is hard to see when exactly he joined Dik. Since the character set in Wilbert was so similar to Dennis the menace, I gues he got stuck with second rate Dnnis jokes as well. The art is competent, as always with Fox and the small and presumably cheap panel had a respectable run of a couple of years.

Monday, March 28, 2011

Wee Willy

Monday Cartoon Day.

I don't go out of my way to collect this delightful Gill Fox panel, but I do come across it from time to time and everytime I do, I clip it. So there you are and here it is.



















Monday, December 15, 2008

Wicked Wilbert

Monday Cartoon Day.

When I first showed you some of these Wilbert panels from 1959, I thought it might not be a daily panel. This run shows that at leats for a short period in late 1958 it was.

July 24 1958:


Aug 8 1958:


Nov 1 1958:


Nov 10/15 1958:






Nov 17 1958:


Nov 19 1958:


Nov 22 1958: