{"id":1022,"date":"2008-11-27T03:54:28","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T07:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2008-11-27T03:54:28","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T07:54:28","slug":"thanksgiving-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/thanksgiving-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Ya Pals, Happy Tanks’Givin’. I couldn’t resist reprinting this TV ad from the old St. Louis Post-Dispatch from 1956, promoting “The Cisco Kid”. I especially loved the beginning of each episode: “Here’s Adventure! Here’s Romance! Here’s That Robin Hood of the Old West, The Cisco Kid!” Of course Pancho, played by Leo Carrillo, was my favorite character, the funny guy. Westerns have just about vanished from TV now, the younger viewers can’t even relate to them at all. I have a few DVDs of the earliest “Gunsmoke” shows. I\u00c2\u00a0think they are the\u00c2\u00a0best TV westerns of all, especially the episodes that Sam Peckinpah wrote and that Robert Stevenson directed.<\/p>\n

In comics this week, pgs. 3 and 4 of Flebus in “Thumb’s Up”, with a hilarious depiction of corporal punishment by Jim Tyer. Also, the last two pages of Sourpuss in “Moving Day”, evidently by Tom Morrison, veteran Terry storyman and the TV voice of Mighty Mouse. The drawing style is very close to Kuwahara’s, but I defer to Milton Knight’s opinion that the story is Morrison’s. Milton really knows Terry comics and the cartoonists’s\u00c2\u00a0graphic thumbprints. Maybe one of you collectors out there can send me a scan of a page of Bob Kuwahara’s comic book work, I feel he must have done some. Marvelous Mike wraps up the Madame Le Moult story in episodes from Dec. 3, 1956 to Dec. 8th. Mike’s psychic abilities\u00c2\u00a0actually\u00c2\u00a0mystify HIM\u00c2\u00a0in this story! Krazy Kat from April 24, 1939 to April 28, 1939\u00c2\u00a0(April 29th is missing) concerns “Mimi”, one of the strangest characters in the strip. Mimi is a French animal of some kind, perhaps a Poodle, who speaks in broadly accented French\/English. Everyone in Coconino County seems a little in love with her, in this week’s strips, Krazy Kat is jealous of her. Mimi seems out of place in the desert environment of the Navajo Tribal Park, but most everything in Herriman’s world is one “brick” short of a monument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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