Wednesday, December 23, 2009

This Josie story was rather liberally extracted for use to illustrate the Dan Decarlo Comics Journal interview. Seeing the entire story, I see that absolutely nothing is added to the handful of panels in the Comics Journal page. It's rather stupid, isn't it?

Though not as stupid as the comic strip, which presents this interesting chest-nut on its creation.

http://joshreads.com/?p=5104#comments
Sequitur says:

December 8th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
50. hogenmogen
If Archie handcuffed the cheerleader, apparently she likes it!

Pozzo says:

December 8th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
The thing about Archie that I get the biggest kick out of is the knowledge, gleaned from talking to Craig Boldman at a party, that he and the artist work separately, and that he (Craig) had never heard of the AJGLU 3000. Thus, Fernando Ruiz (if I’m reading the signature correctly) goes his merry way, peopling his strip with Curmudgeon shout-outs, while Boldman (the real-life AJGLU, I suppose) has no knowledge of what’s being done with his snappy little jokes.


Good to know.
As well, interesting to know what else Frank Doyle did.
http://www.oddballcomics.com/article.php?story=2009-12-14

Frank also wrote for NEA’s ROBIN MALONE daily and Sunday syndicated newspaper comic strip (1970) and ghost-wrote Harry Shorten’s THERE OUGHTA BE A LAW Sunday strip (1965). Frank Doyle worked as a writer for Archie Comics until his death on April 3, 1996.

So, he wrote this? http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2008/09/obscurity-of-day-robin-malone.html

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Here are a few pretty cool little stories from the Atlas Group. Krigstein not included, but those stories never really did him justice.
http://allthingsger.blogspot.com/2009/12/thru-looking-glass-thursday-story-day.html

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