tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post8328527989744772171..comments2024-01-28T22:17:29.551-08:00Comments on Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: Number 1314: Putting the ‘artist’ in comic book artistPappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-79768259399454202382013-02-20T09:51:50.066-08:002013-02-20T09:51:50.066-08:00Craig, and indeed! There it is. Thanks.
Craig, and indeed! There it is. Thanks.<br />Pappyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-38033150606046948702013-02-20T08:17:28.879-08:002013-02-20T08:17:28.879-08:00There is a reproduction of the very first Daily Wo...There is a reproduction of the very first Daily Worker Pinky Rankin strip by Dick Briefer in mv book "Dick Briefer's Frankenstein" in the extensive, profusely illustrated biographical introduction. See the book on my website at http://yoebooks.com. Keep up the great work, Pappy! Your fan, Craig YoeUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01735707478501963478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-69784916455437224872013-02-14T09:18:19.264-08:002013-02-14T09:18:19.264-08:00rnigma, I haven't seen a reference to John Wil...rnigma, I haven't seen a reference to John Willie and Pinky Rankin, but I have read that Dick (Frankenstein) Briefer created the strip for <i>The Daily Worker</i>.Pappyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-10676419050266374932013-02-12T21:36:52.610-08:002013-02-12T21:36:52.610-08:00Didn't John Willie of "Sweet Gwendoline&q...Didn't John Willie of "Sweet Gwendoline" infamy draw "Pinky Rankin"?rnigmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01370724366178429029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-24851448855500860882013-02-12T20:13:53.681-08:002013-02-12T20:13:53.681-08:00Don, I just went to Google and typed in Daily Work...Don, I just went to Google and typed in Daily Worker comic strips and among others I came up with this example of the <a href="http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2006/04/obscurity-of-day-little-lefty.html" rel="nofollow">Little Lefty strip</a> by Maurice del Bourgo.Pappyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-8379694758197388172013-02-12T12:10:40.248-08:002013-02-12T12:10:40.248-08:00I've wondered what kind of comic strips were p...I've wondered what kind of comic strips were printed in the Daily Worker. Were they single-panel humor or continuity-based adventure strips? Dick "Frankenstein" Briefer drew one, Pinky Rankin, for the Daily Worker as well as those drawn by Lou Ferstadt. I've never seen samples of these. Are any available?Donhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10893313342467200285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-69430930180653251462013-02-11T19:23:27.959-08:002013-02-11T19:23:27.959-08:00Brian, there were comic artists who were communist...Brian, there were comic artists who were communists...Maurice Del Bourgo, for one. I got an e-mail from Del Bourgo's stepson who said they had a lot of leftist guests, including Paul Robeson, at their house in the 1940s.<br /><br />I don't know how bothered anyone was by comic book artists who were communists, because it probably wasn't an industry that was looked at by the Feds looking for reds. Comics had their own set of problems with the government that ended up in the Senate hearings in 1954, but those hearings were about contents of the comics that were found offensive by some, not about Cold War politics.Pappyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-24038829019913935552013-02-11T09:59:30.840-08:002013-02-11T09:59:30.840-08:00His style is certainly interesting, and he shows w...His style is certainly interesting, and he shows what I like to call the "impossible fabric physics" on the Doctor of Doom splash. It's sexy, but fabric just does not do that.<br /><br />I think he needed more female models, the females in both stories are basically the same.<br /><br />It was probably better off that he died in 54, working for the Daily Worker would have certainly got him blackballed in comics in the red scare.Brian Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15737535617796413548noreply@blogger.com