Showing posts with label Lockjaw The Alligator. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lockjaw The Alligator. Show all posts

30 August 2020

Jack Rabbit & Lockjaw The Not-Dog

Sleep continues to grow more erratic, leaving me less and less functional between slumber sessions - what there is of them. But finally grabbed enough Zs to make words, so let's pretend this is Sunday Morning Funnies - even if the sun is setting in these parts.

A few years back, during the King Kirby 100, we got a gander at some of Jack Kirby's Funny Animal comics. Lockjaw The Alligator and Earl The Rich Rabbit ran in Punch & Judy Comics back in 1947. I kind of thought i'd ran them all, but apparently not. So here's another trio of tales from The King in a different style -



BTW - it's worth noting that Earl The Rich Rabbit debuted a year before Scrooge McDuck, so there's no copyrabbiting happening here...
 

Jack could have had a very different career path, no?

Now to go see if maybe caffeine and food will help...

page art by Jack Kirby from Punch & Judy Comics v.2 #s 11 & 12, v.3 #1 (1947)

12 August 2017

Saturday Morning Toons (King Kirby 045)


Jack Kirby ruled action comics with his dynamics and mastery of capturing energy on the static page.
Much as he was known for superhero adventures, he also spent time doing light comedy & cartoon books. For our Saturday Morning Toons, let's take a look at some of his work on Punch & Judy Comics in the late 40s.
His first published work in P&J was a simple one-pager:



I did a double-take when first seeing Lockjaw the Alligator. I thought Clonezone the Hilariator had gone time traveling...


Another of the funny animal strips in the old Punch & Judy comics was Earl, The Rich Rabbit (not Eat The Rich Rabbit...  man, my mind was sliding when looking through these old books)


Besides the funny animals, there was also an early Archie type teen comedy strip, Toby:


To wrap up, here are the covers for this mornings toons:


all page art by Jack Kirby for Punch & Judy (1945,1947)