Very few cartoonists from any era had better brushwork than Dan Gordon. This first story is from Giggle Comics No. 71, May-June 1950. Gordon animated everything from Popeye for the Fleischer Studios to Huckleberry Hound for Hanna-Barbera. Most of his comic book work was for ACG (American Comics Group), where his funny animals (and funny humans) bounce around in a three-dimensional, rubbery world.
Next comes a Duke and the Dope story from ever-reliable Ken Hultgren - although it looks like someone else had a hand in this one. That giant gorilla is drawn a bit more loose and dynamic than is typical for the artist. Ken Hultgren was one of the Disney artists that animated the monster in the great sci-fi film, Forbidden Planet! Isn't that cool?
Finally, one of my favorite unsung cartoonists: Ray Thompson - who drew the stories of the Fleer Dubble Bubble Kids for the namesake bubble gum.
WOW! What a great kid comic! It's got characters shooting from cannons, torture devices, guns, dynamite, everything! Those were the days.
ReplyDeleteKW: And don't forget an elephant doing an impression of Jimmy Durante!
ReplyDeleteNice to see this side of Hultgren. Thanks for sharing :)
ReplyDeleteDaniel: This is some of my favorite Hultgren (however much of a part he played - pencils, inks, or both). That gorilla is great!
ReplyDeleteA couple of great stories, Mykal, neither of which I'd seen.
ReplyDeleteI notice neither story was signed, so maybe you're right about another hand in the Hultgren pages.
Great gorilla, though!
Pappy: I love to see Gordon in non-Superkatt stories now and then. I bet there aren't too many of us who remember Frank Buck!
ReplyDeleteThat gorilla is awesome!
Wow -- Dan Gordon comics make any day better…thanks for posting! …and thanks for the kind words about SpongeBob, too !
ReplyDeleteSherm: Oh, tarter sauce, what a great cartoon!
ReplyDeleteActually, I think this is what real Hultgren looks like, and what we're used to is the inks of his regular inker, Al Hubbard. Hubbard make the work much slicker.
ReplyDeleteSangorShop: If this is the real Hultgren, I like! Thanks for the info. You've given me food for thought.
ReplyDeleteBoy, this Bungle of the Jungle comic is sooo GREAT! Can't remember when I've seen a funnier(or wackier!) comic, and I just LOVE the characters(particularly Bungle himself)! BTW, I like Spongebob, too! :)
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