Saturday, December 17, 2011
Russ Cochran announces a new 32-page monthly publication, The Sunday Funnies, devoted to classic comic strips. It features reprints of Gasoline Alley, Krazy Kat, Bronc Peeler, Little Nemo and other Sunday pages dating back to 1895 but mostly from the 1900s to the 1930s. The premiere issue features Gasoline Alley (the first ten Sunday pages from October 24 to December 26, 1920). Also: Alley Oop, Bronc Peeler, Krazy Kat, Wee Willie Winkie's World and Crazy Quilt (April 19, 1914), a strip by Frank King and five other artists with several storylines stitched together.
The source for this material is the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, launched by Lucy Caswell and Milton Caniff at Ohio State in 1977. Cochran comments: "Each issue of The Sunday Funnies will be a full-size 22"x16" comic section, containing full-page Sunday comics in full color. These pages are coming from the archives of Ohio State University, which, thanks to Bill Blackbeard, has the largest and most comprehensive collection of Sunday comics in existence. The retail price will be $10 (plus $5 S/H for US or $7 S/H outside the US) and I will be selling subscriptions, 12 monthly issues for $100. My print runs for these historic sections will be low and I expect to sell out the first few issues, so get your order in now before it's too late. The first three issues of The Sunday Funnies are being printed at once, so send $30 plus $9 shipping ($21 outside US) to get these first three, or, if you believe in me, send $100 plus $25 shipping ($55 outside US) for a year's subscription. I promise you will be delighted... I discovered that there would be considerable economy in printing The Sunday Funnies three at a time, I realized that there would be similar economy in shipping them out three at a time, and that's the way I should be selling them... three at a time. So I am not offering single issues of The Sunday Funnies anymore, I'm selling them in groups of three, all to be mailed in a sturdy Calumet Carton at the same time. This means that now it is essentially a quarterly publication of three Sunday sections, each of 32 pages, for the retail price of $30 plus shipping ($9 US; $20 Outside US). I think this will work much better. As always, you can order through my web site, www.russcochran.com; or you can send your check to PO Box 469, West Plains MO 65775; or you can call 417-256-1311 if you prefer to use MasterCard, Visa or Discover. You can also make a payment by Paypal to russ@russcochran.com. If you want to be invoiced to pay by Paypal, just e-mail Judy atcomicart@russcochran.com."
The source for this material is the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, launched by Lucy Caswell and Milton Caniff at Ohio State in 1977. Cochran comments: "Each issue of The Sunday Funnies will be a full-size 22"x16" comic section, containing full-page Sunday comics in full color. These pages are coming from the archives of Ohio State University, which, thanks to Bill Blackbeard, has the largest and most comprehensive collection of Sunday comics in existence. The retail price will be $10 (plus $5 S/H for US or $7 S/H outside the US) and I will be selling subscriptions, 12 monthly issues for $100. My print runs for these historic sections will be low and I expect to sell out the first few issues, so get your order in now before it's too late. The first three issues of The Sunday Funnies are being printed at once, so send $30 plus $9 shipping ($21 outside US) to get these first three, or, if you believe in me, send $100 plus $25 shipping ($55 outside US) for a year's subscription. I promise you will be delighted... I discovered that there would be considerable economy in printing The Sunday Funnies three at a time, I realized that there would be similar economy in shipping them out three at a time, and that's the way I should be selling them... three at a time. So I am not offering single issues of The Sunday Funnies anymore, I'm selling them in groups of three, all to be mailed in a sturdy Calumet Carton at the same time. This means that now it is essentially a quarterly publication of three Sunday sections, each of 32 pages, for the retail price of $30 plus shipping ($9 US; $20 Outside US). I think this will work much better. As always, you can order through my web site, www.russcochran.com; or you can send your check to PO Box 469, West Plains MO 65775; or you can call 417-256-1311 if you prefer to use MasterCard, Visa or Discover. You can also make a payment by Paypal to russ@russcochran.com. If you want to be invoiced to pay by Paypal, just e-mail Judy atcomicart@russcochran.com."
December 6, 1936
July 21, 1940
January 2, 1944
Labels: billy ireland, comic strips, dailyink, lucy caswell, russ cochran, sunday funnies
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Are these GASOLINE ALLEY strips actually from Russ' new publication? Or elsewhere? They are very nice looking. I just got the enormous WALT & SKEEZIX- THE SUNDAYS book, and am very let down by the quality of the splotchy printing. The cover is fine, but interiors are faded, tonal quality suffers; it's a bare shadow of the originals. All the vibrancy of the colors is gone. I'm loathe to order something reprinting the old strips sight unseen, now.
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: 8:30 AM
No, not from Russ' publication. I did Photoshop restoration on these strips, always attempting to get the look they might have had when originally printed.
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