Welcome to the third and final post in which we will accomplish our stated mission of posting every story from Coo Coo Comics No. 28, August 1946. This first story, featuring the long-forgotten character of Pop Korn, is by Disney master Al Taliaferro. Mr. Taliaferro is best remembered for his work illustrating the Donald Duck strip from 1938 until his death in 1969.
This is the part of comic book collecting I love: finding the work of artists totally new to me. These next two stories feature the artwork of Paul Sommer and Curt Perkins, respectively. I had never heard of either artist before delving into this comic and have been able to find out precious little. But, as you can see, their work is solid and attractive. This makes me wonder how many hundreds of good artists worked in this period that are completely unknown to me.
So, in conclusion: The purpose of this three-part post was to, by posting every story from a single issue of Coo Coo Comics during the Golden age, gain insight into the hardships endured by an editor gathering material for a single volume anthology (like, say for example, The Golden Collection of Klassic Krazy Kool Kids Komics edited by Craig Yoe).Well, all I can say is, my hat is off to Mr. Yoe, big time! I can hardly decide which stories I like the best from this single, 7-story comic!
Wow, the "Fresh Eggs Sold Here" story is an important life lesson in it. Even those it's a kid's comic it's worthy of legendary importance.
ReplyDeleteAmen, brother!
ReplyDeleteWonderful stuff, all!
ReplyDeleteThanks Mykal!
I like that Taliaferro story. Easy to imagine Pop Korn as one of Donald's relatives. This story goes a long ways towards answering the question of what Taliaferro's comic book stories would have been like had he been doing comics instead of strips.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous: I like it as well. He did w whole bunch of Bucky Bug stories, which all have the same clean, lean feel.
ReplyDeleteHow great is Pop Korn. Great find, Mykal!
ReplyDeleteEric: Pretty great! Thanks, my friend. -- Mykal
ReplyDeleteNice art on these stories. Maybe I should look at getting some issues of Coo Coo?
ReplyDeleteCurt Perkins, I believe, was a Disney Studio animator for many years. Like most of these guys, they picked up some pocket money by doing comic bookjs.
Gary: You can never go wrong with Coo Coo! Thanks for the update on Perkins. It seems that was the route nearly all took (animator to comics for pocket change - or rent money!).
ReplyDeleteSommer did some uncredited work for DC's Real Screen.
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