Jingle Jangle Tales Part The Second
Jingle Jangle Tales # 11, December 1944. George Carlson.
Everything in a Carlson strip is anthropomorphic. I usually disapprove of talking birds as I don't think they are realistic!
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Brownwood Bulletin, September 19, 1966
Jingle Jangle Tales # 15, June 1945. Dave Tendlar. I assume that every other gag writer in the entire U. S. A. was pinned down by hostile fire on Okinawa.
Blanche Seal Hunt (1912–1973) was the creator of the Little Brown Koko series of children stories, which initially appeared monthly in HOUSEHOLD Magazine for more than a decade. In full-length book form, Little Brown Koko titles sold more than 600,000 copies.
...are white. The only saving grace to this illustration is that it shows a (Semetic) white father about to stab his blond son to death because God told him to do so, a self negating bit of assumed white supremacy if I ever saw one. Koko is clearly amazed at how stupid some people can be, and the older man reading the story is the thirties film version of God anyway so there is no need to get bent out of shape at how unbelievably racist and patronizing LBK is.
The Green Pastures with Rex Ingram as God. Warner Brothers, 1936. Those that have not seen this movie will be amazed at how well made and acted it was, an example of what Hollywood could have done with black actors and common damn sense. This also has Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson in it as Noah. Now back to the cartoon talking animals.
From # 17, October, 1945. Story by Mickey Klar Marks, art by Ben Levin. Mickey Klar was born on January 9, 1914 in Brooklyn, New York. She attended New York University and Columbia University, and married Harold Marks in 1935. During the 1940's and 1950's, Marks wrote hundreds of short stories for children's magazines. She also wrote the text for several picture books during the 1950's. In the 1960's and early 1970's, she wrote several books related to her hobby, sculpture, as well as books about collage, abstract painting, and kinetic art. She was a playwright and had some of her proposals animated by Famous Studios. She died in 1986. Very Impressive.
The stories were put into comics for reasons of postal regulations, it was probably a rate thing. No one read them that I know of. Mickey Spillane started his writing career doing such stories for children, ha ha! My Pen Is Quick.
One more.
Sophie Ferstadt, December 1945. This combines the worst of type and monochrome art. Like I said, no one read these stories.
Jingle Jangle Tales # 22. August, 1946. Ben Levin.
The Musical Whifflesnort and the Red-Hot Music Roll, Jingle Jangle Tales # 23 October 1946.
I put in this full George Carlson story because if I ever saw a furry it's this Whifflesnort. Carlson got 25 dollars a page and wrote, drew and inked all of these.
Harvey Hare learns about life, love and how not to grow radishes. Harvey is retarded as is this pointless story. Artist, Larz Bourne, 'story' by Mickey Klar Marks.
Decembar, 1947. Christmas Comes To Animal Land, Dave Tendlar.
The Coo Coo Bird, Febuary 1948.
Since we have seen how this kid's funnybook presents American Indians and Black people, we need to look at the Oriental side of things. True, a lot of Chinese did specialize in laundry but I'm surprised this doesn't show an opium pipe or a mahjong set. But the wooden Coo Coo bird has gotten the surprise of his young life, and will never again bother our Eastern cousins. At this point we are a year away from losing mainland China to the communists so this is a bit of reassuring American good natured humor. I give this an 'A' for 'Ambivalent'.
June, 1948, # 33. The artist is one of the usual suspects, possibly Phil Sturm.
Have Computer - Will Steal
Another fine selection of curious comics -- The George Carlson stuff reminds me of the really ancient strips. Probably it's all the exposition -- It took comic-book writers a while before they understood the maxim, "show, don't tell."
ReplyDeleteCarlson is a guy people rant and rave about. He is a really good designer, and his work here is awesome. I did not read much of it as I was wading through all this, it IS nonsense for children. He did a lot of Uncle Wriggly stuff. The art in this does not average really good. Just one example, The New Adventures of Peter Rabbit as drawn by Frank Carin is consistently good all the way through it. Dan Gordon is a fantastic kid's stuff artist. For the most part Jingle Jangle is low end stuff.
ReplyDeleteI really love these obscure artists and comics-keep them coming!
ReplyDeleteHave no fear, Under-Bun is here!
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