An outstanding example of the masterful classic illustrative style of cartooning that I appreciate so much, as seen in the best soap opera strips. The challenge of how to make drawings of people sitting and talking look visually interesting. The inking seems to have been mostly done in pen, then a brush was used to touch up and add black areas.
Note to MIH: Neal Adams was a pen inker. He tried using a brush for line work, but never got the hang of it and gave up.
I’m with JB on AKs line especially the hair, but they also impressed me with the creative use of camera angles especially that shot with the camera listening outside the 2nd story window.
A Sunday installment was as much work as three dailies, and there were six of those every week! Many, if not most, syndicated cartoonists needed assistants to meet their deadlines. My assumption is that someone other than Kotzky wrote Apt. 3-G, and the very wordy strip certainly had a letterer.
Really exquisite work, only to be shrunken on the comic page! I like the flow of the lines. The attention to to detail is outstanding. Even individual hairs are beautiful. Think of the time it took to get a week’s work of “Apt. 3G’s” in under deadline!