A good post is worth repeating. This one, with some added editing, is from over eight years ago.
Category: Cartooning
Parkinson’s Claims Another Cartoonist
Six years ago, Richard Thompson, creator of the Cul de Sac comic strip, died after some years of coping with Parkinson’s Disease. The previous year, Wisconsin political cartoonist Stuart Carlson was diagnosed with Parkinson’s. Carlson passed away on Friday.
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/06/13/stuart-carlson-rip/
I was somewhat taken aback, seeing that Carlson and I were born only days apart. We even lived near one another, until I was seven. Carlson stayed with, and succeeded at, a career dream that I decided to abandon. The newspaper where he worked for 25 years notes his passing, but doesn’t mention he was forced to accept a “take it or else” buyout in 2008.
Duck Winner
Somebody somewhere decided to declare this Donald Duck Day, noting that it’s the 88th anniversary of his first appearance in Disney’s “The Wise Little Hen.”
Spy Guys
More MAD Jack Art
Utterly MAD paperback, 1958.
Jack Davis’ original, uncropped art for the cover.
A Month for Bugs
It was bad enough when the 1960’s was 50 years ago, but 60?? In June, 1962, unknown to me as a little boy in Wisconsin, Amazing Fantasy #15 was on newsstands, featuring the first appearance of Spider-Man.
Also that month, 60 years ago today, in fact, was B-Day. The Beatles had their first recording session with George Martin at EMI. John, Paul, and George, with Pete Best on drums.
https://www.beatlesbible.com/1962/06/06/the-beatles-first-abbey-road-recording-session/
https://www.curvebenderpublishing.com/
Blog Post Extra: Someone has pegged the distribution date of Amazing Fantasy #15 as June 5, 1962, 60 years ago yesterday. Also released that day was the debut of another Marvel Comics Group bug, in the person of Ant-Man.
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/06/05/60-years-of-ant-man-spider-man-thor-and-larry/
