A Comix Trip

This is a panel from a comic strip I drew in 1968 titled A Comix Trip, featuring Christine Pristine and Walter Wombat. I had the notion of using this character in something I would have titled Frontline Wombat.

A Comix Trip ran in a youth-oriented tabloid publication called Max which was promoted through high schools. It looks to me as though I had in mind a variation on O. Henry's short story "The Gift of the Magi", which he wrote over 105 years ago sitting in one of the high-backed booths in Pete's Tavern. The story was first published December 10, 1905 in the New York Sunday World Magazine. Maybe I was thinking of that story because, as I  recall, I went to Pete's Tavern for the first time in 1967. I'll tell the full strange story of Max and A Comix Trip in a future post.