Well it’s Veteran’s Day. In a symbolic nod to our troops Charles Schulz would traditionally have Snoopy heading over to Bill Mauldin’s house to “quaff a few root beers.” Well neither Schulz nor Mauldin are with us anymore but their spirits live on so let’s head over to HAIRY GREEN EYEBALL and quaff a few in their memory whilst reliving some of Mauldin’s great WW II cartoons.

http://hairygreeneyeball2.blogspot.com/2009/11/bill-mauldins-star-spangled-banter.html

After that we have Jolly Jack Kirby, another veteran of the Big One, with a 1975 WW II tale featuring THE LOSERS, arguably some of the King’s best work during his somewhat controversial DC stay of that decade.

http://diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2009/11/veterans-day-salute-jack-kirbys-losers.html

Changing gears, THE BIG BLOG OF KIDS COMICS reprints a 1995 Don Rosa duck tale from the OTHER Good Duck Artist’s LIFE AND TIMES OF SCROOGE MCDUCK epic, in my opinion one of the best comics sagas of all time! Don drew the pic above for me at a signing in the late eighties!

http://www.bigblogcomics.com/2009/11/uncle-scrooge-in-terror-of-transvaal.html

Finally, Pete Doree shares some nifty illustrations from the great Enrique Romero, known for his work on the British strip (in more ways than one) AXA and later as the replcement artist for Jim Holdaway on the classic MODESTY BLAISE strip.

http://bronzeageofblogs.blogspot.com/2009/11/romeros-modesty-axa.html