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.”
Category: Cartooning
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/
Busy Busy Weapons
Having used a Richard Scarry image earlier today, by coincidence Tom the Dancing Bug is doing the same thing, but for a very different reason.
JJ & A&J
As expected, Jimmy Johnson (the cartoonist, not the race car driver) has re-launched the Arlo & Janis Web site. For now it’s a bare-bones WordPress installation, but at least it’s up and running, with HTTPS enabled. So it’s back at the Links section of this site.