Not so clean-cut were the teens (below) in the Harvey Kurtzman/Bill Elder Eti Quette, from the second issue of Kurtzman's Trump (March 1957).
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Here are the typical, clean-cut teenagers in Paul Robinson's Etta Kett (March 23, 1959). The strip ran from 1925 until two months after Robinson's death (September 21, 1974).
Not so clean-cut were the teens (below) in the Harvey Kurtzman/Bill Elder Eti Quette, from the second issue of Kurtzman's Trump (March 1957).
Not so clean-cut were the teens (below) in the Harvey Kurtzman/Bill Elder Eti Quette, from the second issue of Kurtzman's Trump (March 1957).
I've seen either this Elder or a similar piece before, and the kids constantly throw their hands up and open, their eyes squnting, in teen-age rapture just SLAYS me...
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Matthew
Directly influencing Crumb's "Neato Keeno Time" in Bijou Funnies #1, and the work of Skip Williamson.
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