Saturday, April 25, 2020

Enough to Make a Man Run Away

1966 and '67 was a remarkable period of work for Kelly, with not 'just' Pandemonia, but a high water mark for his artistry throughout, with beautiful rendering and surplus of details. In the 1966 strip directly below you'll see that he didn't need to show Rackety Coon playing ball or the bird and candlestick perched above Mister 'Coon. But doing that adds to the charm of our viewing!


And it's fun to pull up a strip, below, from 10 years before, that supplied a similar gripe of Mister 'Coon.  I think most of us married mens have felt like this at one time or t'other (only for a moment, dear).

July 6, 1957

3 comments:

  1. Welcome back! Happy to see this fine blog back in business. I've dug up two more parodies from MAD Magazine. They're in Swedish, which is a bit sad, but note how "nearly the doggone cast" is hidden in the foliage of the first page! It's a work of beauty... Enjoy!

    https://the.ericade.net/pogo/

    //Stripecat

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    1. And here they are in English

      https://ln2.sync.com/dl/479cd5320/52m7vri3-5kvwmsv8-jkpauahp-82xhds8w

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    2. And here they are in English

      https://ln2.sync.com/dl/479cd5320/52m7vri3-5kvwmsv8-jkpauahp-82xhds8w

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