Friday, April 28, 2023
The Comics of Paramount News Feature Service: After The Honeymoon
Today we have a comparatively simple PNF Service strip to cover, no additional great mysteries to plumb here, After The Honeymoon by Geoff (aka Jeff) Hayes. This one is making fun of married life, mostly by portraying married men as oversexed lechers saddled with battleaxe wives. On the face of it, you might think Bringing Up Father clone, but in actuality it plays low rent and smarmy, a very different vibe.
What I do kind of like is the art, which totally embraces the flatness of newspaper -- no shading, checkerboards of stark blacks and whites, pancake flat characters, wild clothing designs with an art deco feel. If Hayes was a better artist, I'd compare After The Honeymoon to Polly and her Pals of the same era, but that would be going too far.
Based on our best sources, After The Honeymoon began on September 16 1927* and ended on July 19 1928**. But since this was one of their headliner strips, I'm guessing a perfect run would have started a bit earlier, perhaps in July 1927. As with the other headliner PNF strips, it had a long life in reprints.
* Source: Norfolk Jounral and Guide
** Source: Philadelphia Tribune
Labels: Obscurities
