Sunday, November 17, 2013

Crazy Horse

Hit and run shenanigans, Kelly at high speed.

June 6, 1971

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  1. Anonymous11/17/13, 5:02 AM

    ..and the moral is... strike up the band...
    silence...
    "Watch what (or is it: 'whom' ?) you are chasing".
    Sorry! Have to go on the chase.

    Hun

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  2. Anonymous11/17/13, 8:10 AM

    Albert’s casual gun-loving and chain-smoking do the most to date Pogo’s slapstick comedy against contemporaries, but it certainly makes for his own special brand of endearingness. Honestly, I’d be more worried about Ms. Cow’s condition after smacking into Albert’s back. She may need to get her horns rebalanced after that. The impact was so bad, it knocked the color registration off something mighty fierce.

    - (A)

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  3. Anonymous11/17/13, 8:11 AM

    Meanwhile here's the preview release of the back-translated version of the french 'demo' of Pogo that Thomas posted. Some 48 hours of obsessive interest a week ago, the back-translation of the French edition into a readable english version was done (dubbed “Pogo: To France And Back”), thanks to the legwork of Hun in fetching the cruddies and running research into item introductory texts.

    Pg.01: http://imageshack.us/a/img197/9703/dt4n.png
    Pg.02: http://imageshack.us/a/img201/37/yjq.png
    Pg.03: http://imageshack.us/a/img818/3106/yakv.png
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    Pg.06: http://imageshack.us/a/img189/3013/zvac.png
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    Extra: http://imageshack.us/a/img820/1858/a52k.png

    Keep in mind that Thomas may repost these with additional haranguing or modification, so these might not be the final draft. They’re just for your edification and gratification and education and whatever other words you can add that end in -fication. And as a bonus for people that actually read the comments, because it gets a little lonely out here (Image of Sad Gator Tad: http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/4024/gx86.png).

    Some semi-spoiler comments about this thing. It still amuses me that of all the characters to choose to make introduction tags for, the French editors went with some nameless mouse and not Miz Beaver or even the insect that was around for several pages longer. DISCRIMINALISATIONISM! I wish the quality of the letters hadn’t been quite as gunky (as E’s, A’s, and S’s tended to close), but in all but a few cases it was readable. I had to really make a guess at one point on the garbled punchline of a particular panel (Albert: Nero Mostel?!), but I think that one makes sense for the time and context.

    - (A)

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    1. Anonymous11/17/13, 2:54 PM

      -(A),
      lots of thanks for all the work you put into this!
      Luckily, for the crummy you are referring to I happen to have a backup which in the last panel is a tiny bit clearer. "NERO MOSTEL MAYBE ?" could fit quite well.
      And I fully agree with you: Taking Ol' Mouse as an important character for the introduction is puzzling. As you did, so I thought Miz Beaver would have been more sensible, even more so when considering that this intro might have been in the expectation of more publications to follow.
      Hun

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    2. Michel François11/17/13, 6:31 PM

      Woaw ! Good job ...
      For oposum in English I find this :
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opossum

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    3. Anonymous11/17/13, 7:53 PM

      I figured I'd post it so you could see the fruits of your labors in rounding up the dailies as well as putting together the intro translations. I know it's frustrating to put work into something and get the impression nothing will come of it!

      I'm pretty sure Albert is making a reference to Zero Mostel, who was a well-known actor at the time for his role beside Gene Wilder in "The Producers". As a kid, I best recalled him as the voice of the seagull in Watership Down.

      "Beeg Vahtah!"

      - (A)

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    4. Anonymous11/19/13, 1:58 PM

      Rounding up was no problem, because my collection of re-printed microfilm newspaper strips is pretty complete ( anyone interested? Am willing to share...). How's that for bad crazyness? It was more a matter of identifying and there Thom's suggestion of '66 was to the point and extremely helpful.
      Hun

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  4. Anonymous11/17/13, 8:13 AM

    Also still currently looking for full-body color images from the 1956 to 1962 for the 30 Evolutionary Years of Albert Project noted here:

    http://imageshack.us/a/img547/5518/m3o3.jpg

    Here’s my observations on it:

    1942-45 Aesops’ Albert - Albert is basically a realistic, vaguely anthropomorphic, alligator. He even shifts back into a full quadruped alligator to deliver umbrage with his tail when ticked off.

    1946-49 Angular Parody Cartoon - This is where he starts to lose significant realistic details. Of particular amusement is the transition from 1946 to 1947, where he wonders “Where’d my nostrils go?” They went to cartoon heaven, Albert. They are Heavenly Nostrils now.

    1950-55 Smooth Stylized Cartoon - Starts to become rounded and rubbery. This is where Albert starts to evolve from the influences of syndicated newspaper pacing. His eyes really increase in size during this spell, and starts the journey towards merging into the ‘monoeye’.

    1956+ Finalized Design - More or less unchanging from here on, this is the final form of Albert for pretty much the rest of his career. Interesting to note that his ‘rumpled’ mouth returns after about 10 years of being smoothed down. There are some signs of the nose becoming slightly more bulbous (notable in 1965), but it’s fairly subtle.

    Anyway, enough of my jaw-flapping. Someone could lose a finger!

    - (A)

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  5. Anonymous11/18/13, 12:38 PM

    So I found this purportedly rejected cover of Kelly's that I believe was going to be called "Indianapolis Star" or something dated 1953 on an auction site, and I rather liked the "Junkpunk" look of it. I have no earthly idea if it ever was colored, so I decided to color it for myself:

    http://img802.imageshack.us/img802/6982/pnpp.png

    Enjoy all. Thomas, you can repost it if you wish.

    - (A)

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  6. Anonymous11/18/13, 1:00 PM

    Scratch my previous URL for the Junkpunk Pogo:

    http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/4540/tjkg.png

    (This is why you use multiply instead of darken.)

    - (A)

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