Three Guys and No Baby

Three of the four living ex-presidents attended John Lewis’s funeral.  The other ex-president, Jimmy Carter, was too sick to travel.  Trump, the president announced he was not going.  I did not hear a reason.

Today, from his own lips, he explained why he chose not to go:  John Lewis did not attend his inauguration. 

That reminds me of a time my friend Van and I got into a scuffle.  Mrs. Miller heard both sides of the story and told us to go sit down, and added, “I’m not sure you two are mature to be promoted to the 4^th grade.”

SUNDAY FUNNIES!! New Toys (late 1950s)

This is about new-fangled toys.  Of course, it was created in the late 1950s.

TRUMP Magazine (No relation).  Publisher Hugh Hefner; Writer probably editor Harvey Kurtman,  Artist:  Al Jaffee

SUNDAY FUNNIES!! Trump Magazine (1957)'s POLITICIANS

Now that it is the Eve of the Political Parties Convention season I thought I would get on the bandwagon a have a page that came from TRUMP magazine.

Don't let the magazine's name fool you.  It was named TRUMP long before Donald Trump was widely know.  In fact, TRUMP magazine was published in 1957 when Donald was only 11 years old.

It was published by Hugh Hefner of PLAYBOY and lasted only two issues.  It was edited and illustrated by the satirical force that created MAD publication, Harvey  Kurtzman, Will Elder, Jack Davis, and so on.  It was a money loser so PLAYBOY Publishing dropped it like a hot potato.  I think the reason it was a money loser, it did not have ads.  Duh!

This page, illustrated by Russ Heath, is about politicians, unlike real politicians is non- partisan. 

Click on image to make it larger and readable.

SUNDAY FUNNIES!! TRUMP magazine's lampoons National Georgraphic

TRUMP Magazine lasted two issues.  It was a satire magazine published by PLAYBOY Magazine in the 50s.  It had no connections what-so-ever with Donald Trump.  It was edited by MAD's ex-editor Harvey Kurtzman and this article was illustrated by one of MAD's original artist Will Elder.

This story takes on NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC.

Be sure to click on each image to know what is going on.

SUNDAY FUNNIES!! GIANT with Rock Hudson, Liz Taylor, James Dean, and Cows!

Pulled from the defunct satire TRUMP.  Written by editor Harvey Kurtzman and illustrated by Jack Davis.


click on image to enlarge to make it readable and prettier.

Elvis Presley died almost 40 years ago and he just won't fade away.  His songs are still played, they are still Elvis imitators,... just the other day I saw a picture of  Elvis in all his finery wishing  a friend's mother a happy birthday at a nursing home.

For sure, it is not too late for me to get on the bandwagon, with a Elvis cartoon that was originally printed in the first issue of TRUMP magazine in the '50s.  Text by editor Harvey Kurtzman and art by Wally Wood. 

click on image to enlarge to make it readable. 

SUNDAY FUNNIES!! TRUMP Does CANDID CAMERA

This  past week CANDID CAMERA was on every night.  The host is Peter Funt, the son of the original creator Allen Funt.   Interesting, Friday,  Peter ran a "Talking Mailbox" scene that was  very popular when his father did the show.

I remember the "Talking Mailbox", not from  watching CANDID CAMERA but from reading TRUMP Magazine, edited by Harvey Kurtzman, so here is Harvey's lampoon of CANDID CAMERA  illustrated by Wallace Wood.

click on image to enlarge to read it.

SUNDAY FUNNIES!! TRUMP's Book Covers

Now that  books are being pushed aside to make way for new electronic  reading material, books stores generally are not doing so well I thought we had better publish this article from TRUMP magazine published in 1950s while  you  still remember books, and of course book covers.

(psst!  a little inside information, click on image to make it readable, keep it - keep it quiet)

SUNDAY FUNNIES!! TRUMPS' Toys

Be sure and click each image to be able to read it.

Of course this article is dated.  It was published in the 1950s in short lived TRUMP Magazine. - what no electronic toys?  Art by Al Jaffee and it was probably written by editor Harvey Kurtzman.

SUNDAY FUNNIES!! Frontline Combat Tin Can!

click on images to enlarge them to be able to read them and for them to make sense.

The comicbook art was by Harvey Kurtzman and Jack Davis did the art for the story TIN CAN!  Kurtzman, being editor of the comicbook probably wrote the story, which he was known for writing all the stories in the two war titles and MAD comicbook.  Kurtzman did not glorifiy war that G.I. JOE and others did.  As in this story, he showed the good and innocent don't always win.

Speaking of Harvey Kurtzman there is an upcoming exhibit at the Museum of American Illustration on his works of his babies he created, such as the EC War Comics, MAD, TRUMP, HUMBUG, HELP, ANNIE FANNY, and others in New York on March the 8th, 2913 (next month)  For more information on him and his creations, click below:


                                                      
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SUNDAY FUNNIES - TRUMP #1 and the Russians

This is from the first issue of TRUMP magazine, edited by Harvey Kurtzman and published by Hugh Hefner in 1957. It had one more issue to go. Back then, we were having a cold war with Russia. We didn’t trust them or like them and we were also scared of them; that is all but comic heroes and some movie heroes, they were beating them one right and left.
Now we have moved on. We have newer adversaries to fear and distrust.
This comic article was illustrated by Arnold Roth, poking fun of a little side-war the U.S. and the Russians were having, of who invented what first.

And to top things off, I also copied the first page after the Inventing article. It is a full page cartoon by Ed Fisher that shows Fisher had an excellent ironic wit about him.

Besure to click to enlarge to be able to read the captions.

Movie Star GIANTS

Elizabeth Taylor has been dead one week now. The other day I was thinking of the different movies she was in. One was the movie GIANT. Then I thought that was a movie with the box office GIANTS in it: Elizabeth Taylor, Rocky Hudson, and James Dean. Which is the name of this movie spoof in issue number 2 of TRUMP Magazine, dated 1957. It was probably written by editor Harvey Kurtzman and illustrated by Jack Davis.

Back to New Orleans, January 1965

This lady was a Jack of all trades and chief bottle washer of the artistic world. She painted, wrote and published poetry books, and sold only her poetry books and TRUMP satirical magazines (Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder, Wally Wood, and Jack Davis after they left MAD magazine. Really! She had the only two issues of TRUMP – maybe a half dozen each hanging on a clothes line selling them about half retail price).

I bought TRUMPs #1, #2, and her poetry magazine. She was better looking on the cover of her magazine than she was in person.

Bow-Wow! Is That So?

(you will probably have to click on each strip to be able to read the words)

The above strips are part of a lampoon story in TRUMP magazine in the 50s, which later was reprinted in HUMBUG magazine, illustrated by Jack Davis.

We at times have a hard time communicating with dogs. We have a hard time. The dogs don’t. They know exactly what we are up to. We just don’t understand them or what they are trying to tell us. Sometimes I think they know us better than we know ourselves by reading our body language.

Willow sometimes has to just about stand on her head, or run around in circles with her hind legs crossed for us to figure out she has to go out for a couple of minutes.

This is a true dog story:

Our neighbor’s daughter that lives in Virginia came down to visit for a couple of weeks. As always, she dropped by to visit us. She and Willow hit it off. Willow seems to always be spellbound by female humans. When Anna comes home from work every evening she dances and tries and tries to jump up on her. And she does the same with a lady that walks her little dog that we sometimes see in the morning. She won’t be still until her target woman talks to her and pets her.

The neighbor’s daughter asked if she could take her on a run every morning she was here and we said sure.

The next morning she came and she and Willow went off for a 30 minute run. Willow came back happy as a lark.

The next day, the daughter her mother left early in the morning to go to north Georgia to visit relatives. About the same time of the morning that she came the day before, Willow got restless and whined.

I think she thought she had a standing date. I think she knew by our body language what was discussed and she was ready.

The next day the daughter came by and picked her up at about the same time and off they ran again.

Girls morning out!