Tuesday, December 25, 2018
The First Christmas Toys Part 10
Conclusion of The First Christmas Toys, by Phil Pastoret and Don Baur.
Merry Christmas from Stripper's Guide
Labels: Christmas Strips
Monday, December 24, 2018
The First Christmas Toys Part 9
Saturday, December 22, 2018
The First Christmas Toys Part 8
Friday, December 21, 2018
The First Christmas Toys Part 7
Thursday, December 20, 2018
The First Christmas Toys Part 6
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
The First Christmas Toys, Part 5
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
The First Christmas Toys Part 4
Monday, December 17, 2018
The First Christmas Toys Part 3
Saturday, December 15, 2018
The First Christmas Toys Part 2
Friday, December 14, 2018
The First Christmas Toys, Introduction and Part 1
Wow, has another year passed already? I swear this one was only about four months long. Well, quick as it was, at the Holtz Household it was full of activity and mostly good stuff. I hope your year was likewise.
It is our tradition here at Stripper's Guide to present a Christmas strip series each year, and this year we're going to shine the light on NEA's offering for the year 1974. The strip was titled The First Christmas Toys. It was written by Phil Pastoret, whose main job at the syndicate was penning the adventures of Major Hoople in Our Boarding House. The art is by a fellow named Don Baur. His only comic strip credits that I know of are on four different NEA Christmas strips from 1974 to 1977. He was on staff with NEA, but I don't know what other work there was his responsibility.
Hope you enjoy The First Christmas Toys!
Labels: Christmas Strips
Monday, December 25, 2017
Oleander's Christmas Eve, Part 9 (Conclusion)
Oleander's Christmas Eve, by Jay Heavilin and Walt Scott.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
from
STRIPPER'S GUIDE!
Labels: Christmas Strips
Comments:
Merry Christmas and Thank-you for this tale! I'll be patiently counting the days until Christmas Day, 2018 arrives!
Anthony
Anthony
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: 12/25/2017 8:09 AM
: 12/25/2017 8:09 AM
This story turned out all right, after all. I shoulda known.
Merry Christmas and Happy Everything to everyone, and let us all try to make 2018 an awful lot better than poor old 2017.
Merry Christmas and Happy Everything to everyone, and let us all try to make 2018 an awful lot better than poor old 2017.
IDW just released a collection of the Disney Christmas strips. I wonder if it does well will LOA be interested in doing collections of other holiday strips. The NEA strips were done by folks like Wally Wood and Jack Kent.
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Saturday, December 23, 2017
Oleander's Christmas Eve, Part 8
Friday, December 22, 2017
Oleander's Christmas Eve, Part 7
Thursday, December 21, 2017
Oleander's Christmas Eve, Part 6
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Oleander's Christmas Eve, Part 5
Tuesday, December 19, 2017
Oleander's Christmas Eve, Part 4
Monday, December 18, 2017
Oleander's Christmas Eve, Part 3
Saturday, December 16, 2017
Oleander's Christmas Eve, Part 2
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First, we see that the kids left milk for Santa in a bowl. Then we have the cat eating the family bird, which is just wrong for this kind of story. I look forward to seeing where this goes.
They've put out a book of the Disney Christmas strips. The last Christmas strip of any kind I remember seeing on a comic page (admittedly digital) introduced Pibgorn, without the oddness and sex that came later.
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They've put out a book of the Disney Christmas strips. The last Christmas strip of any kind I remember seeing on a comic page (admittedly digital) introduced Pibgorn, without the oddness and sex that came later.
Friday, December 15, 2017
Oleander's Christmas Eve, Part 1
Well folks, it's that time of year again, when the Stripper's Guide blog runs one of those special newspaper offerings of yesteryear, the Christmas strip. As has been discussed on the blog before, many syndicates back in the good old days would thank their subscribing papers by sending out a Yuletide freebie. These were usually in the form of a comic strip that ran three to four weeks.
NEA offered these strips for a longer period than any other syndicate, but sadly they gave up the practice in 2010. This year on the blog, we're featuring their 1961 Christmas strip offering, Oleander's Christmas Eve by writer Jay Heavilin and cartoonist Walt Scott.
Scott provided the art for quite a few NEA Christmas strips, always offering up attractive visuals, and 1961's strip is no exception. Jay Heavilin, who only wrote the Christmas strip in 1960 and 1961, shows us for the second time why he was a bad choice for the job. Stripper's Guide has already run his 1960 story, The Brightest Star, which was so hastily cobbled together that the title had nothing to do with the story. In 1961, Heavilin takes the unusual tack of making Santa into a nasty and vindicitve old grump, who is not above trying to choke a cat. Santa also turns out to have the same powers as another famed Christmas figure, as he can apparently bring the dead back to life. So with highlights like that to look forward to, read on!
Labels: Christmas Strips
Monday, October 16, 2017
Obscurity of the Day: Dr. Tinker Claus the Toy Mender
If you're in L.A. there's no way to tell when it's Christmas time by the weather -- you need the benefit of a shopping mall or at least a calendar -- and apparently the Los Angeles Times had the benefit of neither of these handy indicators. That's the only reason I can think of that they would decide to start running a Christmas comic strip in April.
On April 3 1932, a weekly strip debuted in the Sunday Junior Times kiddie section titled Dr. Tinker Claus the Toy Mender, credited to the team of Harold Debus and Fern McLellan. With no obvious clue to which partner did what, I snooped around a bit and found Mr. Debus' byline on a few news stories, so I'm assuming that Ms. McLellan was the artistic half of the team.
Each week the feature offered a short tale about a group of anthropomorphic toys and their benefactor and friend, Santa's brother, Dr. Tinker Claus. The length of the typeset stories makes the feature more of an illustrated story feature rather than a strip, but I'm giving it a pass.
In 1933 the Junior Times section was reduced to a single page, and that entailed a reduction in space for Dr. Tinker Claus. In May the Times reduced the illustrations from four to two, and on July 2 1933 the final installment was printed, though that episode ended with the promise of another story next week. Although I am unaware of any newspapers taking the feature in syndication, perhaps the feature ran longer elsewhere.
Labels: Christmas Strips, Obscurities
