Thursday, March 20, 2008
Obscurity of the Day: Mother Cod Jingles
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Charles was quite the renaissance man -- he was a nationally known industrial engineer, but he also wrote a number of books of poetry, a few volumes on history, and several childrens books with his eventual wife-to-be, Marie.
My guess is that in this feature Charles handled the versifying and Marie the puzzles. The drawings seem to have been by various hands (in our sample the half-page drawing is by Willard Bonte, the drawings accompanying the poem by someone else who supplied some scratchy initials -- F.I.B.?). How the authors got together with these artists is unknown -- were they Herald staffers, or were they in the employ of Going and Corbin?
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Hello! I've been following your blog for a while with enjoyment. I thought you might be interested to know about a publication that's currently in the comic book stores, called "Comic Strip Masterpieces". It's reprints of old comic strips, and you can download a PDF of the first issue at http://www.fantagraphics.com/downloads/COMICSTRIPMASTERPIECES.pdf I don't know if there's a second issue yet.
Sorry to get off subject again--but you were such a help on a previous question that maybe you can help with something that's been driving me nuts for awhile! There was a strip I remember reading about 1999 or so about a lumberjack and his friends. For the life of me I just can't think of what it was called or how to find it with a keyword search anywhere. Can you give me any hints? I do remember it was hysterically funny at the time since it tended to be a little political also.
No, not that one--though it's screamingly funny too! Don't think this one ran very long, and my memory may be playing tricks on me about the characters. I'm pretty sure there was a lumberjack or park ranger, and maybe some talking animals?
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