Me, behind American Legion, beer in hand.
My mama told me not to be wasteful, reuse things: Recycling my pictures: St. Johns River, birds on a rail, in Jacksonville, Florida.
THE TODAY SHOW has been around since I was in high school. I remember J. Fred Muggs well. Story by editor Harvey Kurtzman, art by Atlanta's own, Jack Davis.
Paul Krassner (1932-2019) R.I.P. I cannot say enough about how bold he was for our freedoms. He was the editor and publisher of THE REALIST Magazine, which tested our freedom of press and speech in every issue. In his editorial ramblings he managed to mentioned he was a child prodigy that played a violin solo Carnegie Hall at a young age, about 5 or 6 I think. His profound wit was up there with Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder, and Lenny Bruce.
Book (comicbook) Report
FRONTLINE COMBAT. Before MAD Comicbook/Magazine
existed at EC Comics existed they had a big selection of Horror and Science-Fi Comics. Then writer/artist/editor Harvey Kurtzman
came along. He is credited for writing
and editing most of EC’s two new War comics FRONTLINE COMBAT and TWO-FISTED
TALES.
Harvey Kurtzman has been
dead over a quarter century. Now, I
suppose “the best of” FRONTLINE COMBAT is in digital Kendal form. FRONTLINE COMBAT Kendall covers all kinds of
war, WWI aerial dogfights, pirates,
Civil War, Indians, Roman times, modern airplane fights, and on and on. The details were well researched. Kurtzman had an assistant who did the
research. He even went down in a
submarine. Kurtzman also verified
Sherman’s quote, “War is Hell.” The
American soldier did not always win, and some were natural bullies. I counted stories, one Forward, and one Introduction. One
included comic was a special on the Air Force, which was all good, like a show off of what we have.
The artists in this Kendal
is George Evans, Alex Tooth, Harvey
Kurtzman, Jack Davis, Wally Wood, John Severin*, and Jack Kubrt. It is interesting that John Severin and Will
Elder worked on most of their stories as a team, but not one Elder and Severin was
included.
This was before MAD was
created, these war comics took a lot of research and then Kurtzman created MAD
and he is more remembered for MAD than he is of the War comics.
Have your heard the Joel Chandler Harris’s story about Uncle Remus ‘s story about Ber’ Rabbit and “The Tar Baby”? Well, I had a very similar experience when a the High Museum when I asked a Chinese Terracotta Guard a question.
Marie's Postcard Collection. Speaking of shopping centers and other things in Cobb County that was here then but not now, here is Sope's Creek Covered Bridge. It was near to a paper mill on the creek that General Sherman arrested the women workers as traitors and sent them up north to "fend" for themselves. The postcard says the creek and bridge was named after local Indian Chief Sope. I didn't know that.
The card goes on to say the bridge was built about 1870 (I didn't know that either). The card also says the nails were wooden pegs... another thing I did not know. See how educational reading a postcard can be?