A MAD Halloween

Start getting warmed up for Halloween with this Frank Kelly Freas cover for Mad #59, cover dated December 1960.

San Diego Comic Con, 1985.

Below are some pictures from the San Diego Comic Con in 1985. It's weird looking at these pictures, I really don't have many memories of this convention. I remember Frank Miller was there, but we were kind of over him at that point and the line was huge to get autographs. The only pros I really recall meeting were Harvey Pekar and Rick Geary. I'm sure there were others. I have much more vivid memories of when I attended in 1987, but didn't take any pictures that year. Go figure.




Some Samurai looking guy and I'm not sure who that is supposed to be next to him.




A couple of guys dressed like pirates (I guess).




Art dealer Albert Moy. Love that Badtime Stories cover behind him.




The Gecks. I'm not sure what that was, maybe a band. We kept seeing this guy around. Scott Parrish on the right.




We called this guy "Captain Tape" because of the abundance of tape on his costume.




I'm not sure who this lady was supposed to be, but she liked having her picture taken and we liked photographing her.




L to R: Daredevil, Green Lantern, The Black Cat




The worst Flaming Carrot costume in the world.


Below: some views of the main dealers' room.

It Really Happened!

It Really Happened #3, 1944. Alex Schomburg cover.




It Really Happened #4, 1944. Alex Schomburg cover.




It Really Happened #6, 1946. Alex Schomburg cover.




It Really Happened #11, 1947. Alex Schomburg cover.

Doctor Doolittle in the Moon

Written and illustrated by Hugh Lofting. Lippincott & Co, 1928.

I picked this up for cheap at the flea market a couple weeks ago and just fell in love with these illustrations. These aren't even half of the illustrations, there is an illustration every three or four pages in the book. Sometimes it looks like he is illustrating random sentences from the book, the randomness of it is one of the things that cracks me up.

The drawings remind of James Thurber at first glance. Like Thurber and Gary Larson, I love how he can put so much expression in a face with just a dot for an eye and line for a mouth. Particularly in the renderings of Polynesia the Parrot.

Enjoy!

Frank Brunner

Frank Brunner's cover for Star Reach #6, 1978.




Journey to the Center of the Earth




Whiskers

Br'er Rabbit

by Arthur Suydam

Princess Pam

"Princess Pam," script and pencils by Bruce Jones. Inks by Dave Stevens. From Pacific Comics' Alien Worlds #4, September 1983. Stevens' cover is below.