See this post from last May for some background. Read and return here.
More historical background is in an October post.
A Christmas story by Al Hartley, inked by Jon D’Agostino.
Joe Sinnott pinch-hitting for Jon on another Hartley Christmas story.
Category: Cartooning
Technical Trifecta
Can there be any doubt what will happen when artificial intelligence is powered by quantum computers running on limitless fusion energy, and combined with robotics?
Super Pre-Pop
Artist Philip Pearlstein has died. Ten years before Pop Art began to take hold, Andy Warhol’s friend and onetime roommate painted Superman.
It’s like a “Picture of Dorian Gray” version of H.J. Ward’s 1940 Superman painting.
For more — much more — background on the Ward painting:
https://kleinletters.com/Blog/a-stanley-kaye-superman-painting-mystery-part-1/
https://kleinletters.com/Blog/a-stanley-kaye-superman-painting-mystery-part-2/
Get Jingling!
I need to get in the holiday spirit. Music will help.
And so will reading some classic Christmas stories.
Crazy Old Guy Saves Christmas
Where are the adult caretakers at this orphanage? The kids are left to fend for themselves on Christmas morning, playing with broken toys, until Betty Boop’s Grampy shows up to fix things. Featured in the opening and ending of this nicely restored cartoon is the Fleischer Studio’s Stereoptical Camera.
Pain in the Neck
Being free of Covid is quite a relief. One symptom that hit, indicating there was more than a cold at work, was a terrible headache. It felt like a hangover, but without alcohol being involved.
