Your Daily Dose of Comics History

It’s the Sunday of a holiday weekend (here in the US anyway) so kick back, grab your laptop and read some Sunday comics!
Every Sunday over at THE PICTORIAL ARTS, one gets another vintage Sunday POGO strip, in this case from exactly 45 years ago! Lots of other neat illustrations from Thom Buchanan (yes, him again) throughout the week but always, always a POGO Sunday. Make it a tradition! http://mydelineatedlife.blogspot.com/
THE HORRORS OF IT ALL calls itself “A Celebration and Appreciation of 50′s Pre-Code Comic Book Horror and More!” Today we find a nicely drawn 1952 reprint from St. John’s STRANGE TERRORS # 1 entitled “Vampires Dance at Dusk.” The artist, whose work is reminiscent of Lou Fine as well as various 1940′s Timely artists, is unidentified. Maybe you can help ID him!
http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com/2009/09/vampires-dance-at-dusk.html
The Bogey Man will get you at TEN CENT DREAMS! From the obscure RED BAND COMICS of 1944 comes this blatant SPIRIT knock-off drawn by one-time Eisner-Iger shop artist August M. Froehlich. Check out the preceding days here, also, for lots of MLJ’s STEEL STERLING!
http://tencentdreams.blogspot.com/2009/09/bogey-man-spirit-of-august-m-froehlich.html
Nice guy writer Paul Kupperberg (he used to be at what seemed like every comic convention I ever attended back in the late seventies/early eighties) finds some historical perspective on the Marvel Comics prose novels of that period in an insightful interview with Marv Wolfman over at BOOKGASM.
http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/sci-fi/capes-cowls-costumes-marvel-marv-me-and-len-wein-too/
Top it all off for today with a funny MIGHTY MOUSE tale over at COMICCRAZYS drawn by Terrytoons and Famous Studios animator Jim Tyer. If you like it, this is one of several similar posts on this site featuring the animator’s work (apparently a favorite of John Kricfalusi!). http://comicrazys.com/2009/09/05/mighty-mouse-devil-of-the-deep-jim-tyer/
Keep those cards and letters coming to let me know about great comics websites. Then we’ll pass the info on to everyone else! [email protected]

— booksteve

































