Makin’ Links # 42


More POGO, Tom Sutton and John Severin! The Net gods are smiling on fans of great COMIC comic art today!
Been plugging DIVERSIONS OF THE GROOVY KIND a lot here lately but hey, can I help it if they’re that good? Been plugging Tom Sutton a lot lately, too and today the Groovy Agent runs Sutton’s NOT BRAND ECCH take on FRANKENSTEIN SICKSTY-NINE, scripted by DC expatriate Arnold Drake.
http://diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2009/10/weird-sunday-funnies-frankenstein.html
PENCILINK offers up an illustrated personal Top 10 list of comics by the late penciller Marshall Rogers whose highly stylized version of BATMAN (along with Steve Englehart’s great stories) from both the seventies and the early 2000′s is considered a very high point in that character’s long run.
http://pencilink.blogspot.com/2009/06/top-10-marshall-rogers-comics.html
One last Sunday POGO comic strip from exactly 45 years ago shows up from Thom Buchanan today along with the announcement of a brand new blog devoted to Walt Kelly and all of his works coming in two weeks. Watch for it!
http://mydelineatedlife.blogspot.com/2009/10/young-goonglebird.html
FOR MONSTERS ONLY was a bizarre hybrid of FAMOUS MONSTERS and MAD put out by the latter’s longtime rival CRACKED. It ran only a handful of issues published irregularly over several years. Here’s a link to John Severin’s art from issue 1.
http://magiccarpetburn.blogspot.com/2009/10/for-monsters-only-1-john-severin.html

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