SUNDAY FUNNIES!! From HELP Mag, WONDER WART HOG!

WONDER WART HOG is by Gilbert Shelton, the same who created THE FABULOUS FREAK BROTHERS.  click to make bigger!

SUNDAY FUNNIES!! POOR ARNOLD'S ALMANAC

From HELP #25, 1965, by Arnold Roth

SUNDAY FUNNIES!! Robert Crumb's Bulgaria, 1965

Robert Crumb visited Bulgaria and here is his take, published in HELP Magazine, in 1965.  I'm sure things have change there since then.

SUNDAY FUNNIES!! HELP magazine, 1961, Arnold Roth's MOSCOW VISIT

Harvey Kurtzman's HELP Magazine, had some class A artful stories.  Here is one by Arnold Roth. 

SUNDAY FUNNIES!! HELP's Elder's 77 Sundshade Strip

To enjoy this you need to have been born before 1945.  But try to enjoy it anyway.  

From HELP Magazine, story by editor Harvey Kurtzman and art by Will Elder.

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SUNDAY FUNNIES!! LI'L ABNER Lampoon

This is from HELP #8.  Story by Ed Fisher, Art by Will Elder.  click to enlarge to read the balloons and make sense of it. 

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SUNDAY FUNNIES!! The Implied Wall

Speaking of Walls (isn't everyone?) there is an implied Wall in the Will Elder cartoon ripped from the pages of HELP Magazine #5

SUNDAY FUNNIES!! Broadway Musical from HELP Magazine

We still have the BROADWAY bug.  I feel like singing and dancing around a NYC light pole using my umbrella guide my leaping flight or.. or..not.

This take of behind the scenes, or backstage of a Broadway musical was torn from the pages of HELP #7 (1960s).  It was drawn by Paul Coker and supposedly also wrote the article, but I bet the editor Harvey Kurtzman added his twist to it too.

SUNDAY FUNNIES!! Wonder Wart Hog!

copied from HELP! Magazine
click on each page to enlarge it to make it readable and hopefully understandable.   Created by and art by Fabulous Freak Brothers creator Gilbert Shelton.

SUNDAY FUNNIES!! You Know Who Gets Killed art by Jack Davis

From the pages of HELP magazine  #2, 1960.  Art by Georgia’s home-grown, corn-fed, the late Jack Davis.  The script by editor Harvey Kurtzman.  I think during this time Jack Davis was doing a balancing act between MAD and HELP.  He had a deep gratitude for competitors William Gaines, publisher of MAD, and Kurtzman.

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SUNDAY FUNNIES!! HELP's WAY OUT by Arnold Roth

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Remember Arnold Roth?  I think he was a jazz musician, and might still be.  He was also an artist for Harvey Kurtzman's TRUMP, HUMBUG,  and HELP.  After they folded he became an artist for MAD, which he has been for years and years..  His style is so unique he also was known for his unique art on record albums.  

The above cartoon was in the first issue of HELP magazine.

SUNDAY FUNNIES!! Kurtzman Fumetti

HELP Magazine got buy on a shoestring budget.  It built a name for itself and started using a comic book format of photo panels.  The French have been doing it a long time.  And new budding stars would be in these photo comic book style stories carried Fumetti for peanuts, just to get their name out there.  Here is Orsen Wells.