Jingle Jangle Tales
Benny The Bear and The Polar Twins, Jingle Jangle Comics # 2. April, 1943
Edited
by Stephen Douglas, principle artist George Carlson with other work by
Phil Sturm, David Tendlar, and Emanuel Demby. There are others but the entire crew is hard to find. Jingle Jangle ran for 42
issues in the 1940's and is now remembered soley because of George Carlson.
June, 1943. Frederick Stanley
What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world?
Scotty The Sleuth Hound. Is it me or does Scotty look familiar?
Cold,
wind, peat, mountains, bagpipes and plaid produces a rugged if craggy
breed. Good to have him inside the tent barking out than outside the
tent barking in.
The little blue faced fox thing is getting a well deserved thrashing for trying to steal honey. Now he is going to be 'a real man'. The gangleader bee with a distinct Brooklyn accent is a lineal ancestor of our very own-
Andy is high spirited and, er...high spirited. He has made this site what it is today!
Next month - Wounded Knee Knuckleheads, the big Pow! Wow!
And quit your bitching, Cochise, there's a war on.
Frog Pond Ferry, Jingle Jangle Tales # 6, December 1943. Art by Phil Webb, and a piss-poor job he did of it too.
Welsh Rabbit is cheese toasted over bread. The name was given by the English after Edward Longshanks the Bastard stole Wales in a most brutal fashion and many of the Welsh starved to death. Ha ha ha, ain't that funny, neighbors with nothing to eat?
My
secret Bunny Clan name is Paul Kai ap Dafydd ap Sylvester Davis, and
since I cannot get my hands around all of England's neck I will settle
for their inbred feeble-minded worse than useless German monarchy and
decorating Harlech Castle with their heads right before I force the rest
of the aristocracy to dismantle it by hand and throw the stones into
the ocean, still wearing their evening dress for the big festival I
invited them all to attend. Of course I would feed my prisoners
well, toasted cheese on bread day in and day out, under my program I
doubt they would have time to get tired of such food. I would
take refusal to enjoy this delicacy very, very personal. Art by Phil Webb.
Jingle Jangle Tales # 8, April 1944. David Tendlar
# 9, June 1944. The Very Royal Lion And The Sunburnt Cheese-Cake. George Carlson
From
Forest Trial, by Sophie and Louis Ferstadt, story and art respectively. Their work is still
collected today, and Louis was a card carrying communist, I imagine his
wife Sophie was as well. Louis died in 1954 while out camping, no doubt
a stress related heart attack brought on by McCarthy's vicious attacks
on people who did nothing but have a different opinion concerning
politics. Sophie died in 1994.
Jingle-Jangle Tales # 10, The Overgrown Bumble-Bee and the Tuneless Pop Cornet. August 1944.
George Calson. See Andibi, above.
Cover, October 1944. David Tendlar.
As good a place to stop for now as any.
Billy D Bunny. Holding grudges since 1283.
Wow, the toons I've missed by being born after my time, but that makes it extra fun to peruse through here. And, thank you for the kindly mention as a Jangle Jingle sleuth; I will now continue my CSI work, Comic Strip Investigation, looking for hidden laughs.
ReplyDeleteSo, Monsieur, you find that the laughs, they are hidden, n'est-ce pas? En garde, Villain!
ReplyDeleteExcellent stuff! "Jingle Jangle Tales" seems to hold together better than most funny-animal comics of that time. Perhaps that's why it went for more than a few issues? Andy appreciates the mention -- He said he would have kicked that fox-kid's a$$ too! Wendy is less than enthusiastic about "Susie Spring," however. She says I should inform you that not all kangaroos are brain-damaged.
ReplyDeleteThat Susie Spring was among the more intelligent of Suzie's actions. I included it, of course, to let Wendy know I keep an eye out for 'roo antics and tomfoolery. There is an article in All In Color For A Dime by Harlan Ellison, the diminutive sci/fi writer who once mailed a dead gopher to his agent because he was displeased, raves about the Pie Faced Prince. It is good, and Carlson is an awesome artist, but I think maybe sweet little Harlan was channeling his nostalgia for his boyhood. Regardless, Jingle Jangle Tales is hard to find and now forgotten except for the Carlson stuff, and I can see why. The blue fox thing was bordering on using the results of a Scrabble game to build a story on.
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