In the early seventies, DC’s E. Nelson Bridwell ran two stories of the Golden Age Flash that replaced long-time artist Martin Naydel’s work with that of new, modern artists supposedly because the original work did not meet their “current standards.” In effect, he was dissing the veteran Naydel whose work (seen here in a side by side splash page comparison made by yours truly) was perfectly appropriate for the time. SLAY, MONSTROBOT OF THE DEEP revisits this injustice here:

http://slaymonstrobot.blogspot.com/2009/10/cartoony-is-bad-in-comic-book.html#comments

Jerry Beck’s ever-insighful CARTOON BREW posts the first part (of 3) of a video re-presenting a rare (Jerry had never heard of it! That’s how rare it is!) MAD MAGAZINE TV special from 1974 that features animated versions of the art of Al Jaffee, Mort Drucker, Dave Berg and the Usual Gang of Idiots!

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/tv/the-mad-magazine-tv-special-1974.html

BULLY SAYS COMICS OUGHTA BE FUN does one of those “Ten of a Kind” things this morning that is kind of interesting. It’s a look at ten comic book covers dating from the early 1940′s to the present that have depicted Mount Rushmore (or some variation thereof).

http://bullyscomics.blogspot.com/2009/10/ten-of-kind-we-will-rock-you.html

Celebrating their 50th post, COLE’S COMICS reprints the very last work that Jack Cole ever did on PLASTIC MAN and compares and contrasts it in some depth with that of one of his primary followers on the strip, Alex Kotzky.

http://colescomics.blogspot.com/2009/10/jack-coles-strange-last-plastic-man.html