Leapin’ Lizards # 496

Here we have the amazingly detailed art of Aldredo Alcala’s Voltar--and knowing the artists’d reputation for speed rivaling that of Sergio Aragones, this whole strip was probably dashed off over lunch!
http://diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2011/09/black-and-white-wednesday-comes-end.html
The politically incorrect aspects of this National Lampoon story haven’t aged well at all but the art still rules-Frank Frazetta and Neal Adams on Dragula.
http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com/2011/09/dragula-queen-of-darkness.html
Here is Gil Kane’s His Name is Savage, legendary but ultimately failed attempt at doing something different with comics for grown-ups in the late sixties.
http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com/2011/09/great-gil-kane-1926-2000-his-name-is.html
After Segar and Sagendorf, George Wildman arguably became the next great Popeye stylist with a decade or so of dealing with the sailor for Charlton Comics.
http://www.bigblogcomics.com/2011/09/george-wildmans-popeye.html

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