Al Capp Caricatures

I'm currently reading the recent Al Capp biography. Watch for a review soon. In the meantime, here's a feature from a 1944 issue of LIFE showing how Capp used caricatures of famous folks to define his characters. 

Bob Hope Comic Ad-Jack Sparling?

From 1961.

Happy Will Eisner Week!

Someone somewhere has declared this a week to honor the late, great comics creator Will Eisner. While Eisner was much, more more than just THE SPIRIT, it was nevertheless the blue-clad detective through whom I first discovered him at the ripe old age of 7 in 1966! Seen here are just a very few of my favorite SPIRIT covers by Will throughout the years.

Above and below--my two all-time favorites out of the master's legendary SPIRIT splash pages.

Below--my first ever exposure to THE SPIRIT.

Lassie and Zorro

Just heard that this year's upcoming Nostalgia Expo is expected to include a re-creation of a TV LASSIE episode with original star Jon Provost as well as an all-new, authorized ZORRO script! Coming in May.

Western Water Rifle

RUSC Old Time Radio

Old-time radio is pretty plentiful on the Internet but the quality varies widely and many of the sites offer nothing but the shows themselves, often with misleading info--if there's any info at all. 

Until today, somehow or another I had managed to avoid hearing about RUSC--"R U Sitting Comfortably?" They've been around for more than a decade, though, providing 25,000 episodes to monthly subscribers. Yes, it's a pay site, but the monthly cost is less than NetFlix and quite frankly what you get is probably, on the whole, more entertaining. 

Take a look and consider RUSC. If you're already a fan, you'll be impressed! If not, then I envy you. You have a whole new world of entertainment to discover!

www.rusc.com

Gray Morrow and Marty Feldman

Here's an odd little cameo in Marty Feldman's IN GOD WE TRU$T--Comics artist Gray Morrow's poster for the exploitation film NURSE SHERRI.