BLACK FRIDAY COMC PICKUPS - PART 9: CUTE & HORRIBLE

HAVEN'T DONE ONE OF THESE POSTS IN 15 MONTHS, LONG STORY SHORT: ON BLACK FRIDAY I TRY TO WASTE 20-30 BUCKS ON COMC SALES

HERE'S THE EARLIER ONES IF YOU WANT A REFRESHER: ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT

I GREW UP ON MAD MAGAZINE AND I AM A DEVOTED FAN OF MANY OF THE USUAL GANG OF IDIOTS. AL JAFFEE IS A NATIONAL TREASURE. HARVEY KURTZMAN HAS INFLUENCED SO MANY COMICS IT'S CRAZY. MORT DUCKER IS THE GREATEST CARICATURIST EVER. DON MARTIN, WILL ELDER, AL FELDSTEIN, ANTONIO PROHIAS, SERGIO ARAGONES, WALLY WOOD, BASIL WOLVERTON, PAUL COKER, DUCK EDWING, DICK DEBARTOLO, FRANK JACOBS, SAM VIVIANO, PAUL PETER PORGES, PETER KUPER, DREW FRIEDMAN, TOM RICHMOND AND ABOUT 800 OTHERS I CAN'T THINK OF RIGHT NOW. EVEN DAVE BERG TAUGHT ME EVERYTHING I EVER NEEDED TO KNOW ABOUT LAME WHITE SUBURBAN MIDDLE OF THE ROAD SQUISHY NEUROTIC LIBERALS.  THE GUY WHO AFFECTED ME THE MOST HOWEVER WAS JACK DAVIS. 

1959 TOPPS FUNNY VALENTINES

JACK DAVIS IS THE BEST AND THERE WILL BE NO DISSENT. HE DREW EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE FOR DECADES. COMICS, MAD MAGAZINE, ADVERTISEMENTS, MOVIE POSTERS, ALBUM COVERS, ALL KINDSA SHIT EVERYWHERE. ANY UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FAN HAS SEEN AT LEAST 800 DRAWINGS OF HAIRY DAWG THAT HE DID. TOPPS USED HIS SERVICES MULTIPLE TIMES IN ILLUSTRATIONS ON THE BACK OF 1962 BASEBALL CARDS, 1961 MAGIC RUB OFF INSERTS, AND MANY NON-SPORTS SETS LIKE YOU'LL DIE LAUGHING AND WACKY PLAKS. THE THING ABOUT JACK DAVIS IS THAT HE COULD DRAW ANYTHING AND YOU IMMEDIATELY KNEW IT WAS JACK DAVIS. CELEBRITY COVER FOR TIME MAGAZINE OR TV GUIDE? JACK. ALBUM COVER FOR JOHNNY CASH OR THE GUESS WHO? JACK. ADVERTISEMENT FOR SPALDING OR SLIM JIMS? JACK. WANT COMICS? HOW ABOUT A WESTERN OR HORROR OR WAR COMIC OR COMEDY OR MAYBE EVEN ONE A THOSE SUPERHERO BOOKS IF THAT'S YOUR THING. ALL JACK. EVERY DRAWING ALL UNIQUE BUT IMMEDIATELY RECOGNIZABLE AS JACK'S. WANT SOMETHING CUTE? HE COULD DRAW THE MOST ADORABLE LITTLE GIRL YOU'VE EVER SEEN...

AND THEN IMMEDIATELY FOLLOW IT UP WITH A MONSTROSITY LIKE THIS. JACK'S THE BEST, AND SO'S THIS SET. HUNKER DOWN YOU HAIRY CAVEMEN