Kids Stuff

Tuesday Comic Strip Day.

I am a huge fan of Bud Blake's work, but not necessarily of his strip Tiger, which ran from the mid sixties until long past I don't care. Though the style itself is great, I don't undertand how it can not have changed in the thirty years the strip ran. I guess I prefer him drawing adults, as in his cartoon series Ever Happen, which he did for the ten years before Tiger.

Will It Ever Happen?

Monday Cartoon Day.

Another batch of Bud Blake's daily cartoons I built up over the last few months. It is getting harder and harder to see which ones I did and did not use before. As I have said before, he did more then ten years of these cartoons. I especially like the really dark ones he used to do at the end of the year, something he lost when he started doing Tiger. In fact, he lost the darkness in his humor a well.

I would love to be the one to pick some of these for a book collection. I see two possibillities. Either someone doe a complete reprint series, starting in late 1954 on to 1966 (if my dates are correct), in the manner of Fantagraphics' Dennis the Menace series. Or you can do a career reptrospective on Blake, focussing on his kids strip Tiger, but prefacing it with a huge introduction featuring the best of these cartoons and lots of his color covers for The American Weekly. Would you buy either of these?