'I have here a Collection of the World's most Astounding Horrors!'
Creating Cartoon Horror-Iconography is yet another well-beaten path within the annals of cartoondom, with entire comics put out at one point in the early mid-70s [in the UK] : Shiver and Shake, of course, from 1973, and Monster Fun comic which followed a scant two years later.
Sadly, my policy of not showing vintage UK comics---or any other copyrighted material------ on this site precludes me from adding illustrations as we speak, but I will state that these IPC comics were keenly devoured by myself at the time, and in fact I grew to prefer them, over time, to the over-familiar D C Thomson output of the same era.
It has to be recorded that both of these comics had fairly short and brutal runs, indicating, perhaps, that their short-lived success proved to be the proverbial flash-in-the-pan. I can't think of a single 'horror-themed' newspaper strip that has proved long-running and successful, although that's not to say that it can never be done.
LIO by Mark Tatulli may be one exception [and it's a very good, visual strip, in my humble view] : however, even here, science-fiction elements also come into play, marking out the strip as not completely Horror-based.
However, I am 'playing safe' in introducing my variations of FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER, DRACULA, the MUMMY, and many others as 'walk-on-Wonders', who serve merely to supply the required thrills and spills as witnessed by the four main players within BABY BOOMER.
For all my love of vintage Horror movies, I have delved into relatively shallow waters regarding this theme: I have only scratched the surface on this tombstone-like humor, really,------- ironic, seeing as I have a fair amount of those vintage 30s and 40s black-and-white screen mellerdrammers on shiney, consumerist DVD, of the original movies put out by Universal, RKO and many others during the 'golden Age' of Screen Terror.
I'm sure there will be a lot more material forthcoming regarding these worthwhile avenues, however.
Sadly, my policy of not showing vintage UK comics---or any other copyrighted material------ on this site precludes me from adding illustrations as we speak, but I will state that these IPC comics were keenly devoured by myself at the time, and in fact I grew to prefer them, over time, to the over-familiar D C Thomson output of the same era.
It has to be recorded that both of these comics had fairly short and brutal runs, indicating, perhaps, that their short-lived success proved to be the proverbial flash-in-the-pan. I can't think of a single 'horror-themed' newspaper strip that has proved long-running and successful, although that's not to say that it can never be done.
LIO by Mark Tatulli may be one exception [and it's a very good, visual strip, in my humble view] : however, even here, science-fiction elements also come into play, marking out the strip as not completely Horror-based.
However, I am 'playing safe' in introducing my variations of FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER, DRACULA, the MUMMY, and many others as 'walk-on-Wonders', who serve merely to supply the required thrills and spills as witnessed by the four main players within BABY BOOMER.
For all my love of vintage Horror movies, I have delved into relatively shallow waters regarding this theme: I have only scratched the surface on this tombstone-like humor, really,------- ironic, seeing as I have a fair amount of those vintage 30s and 40s black-and-white screen mellerdrammers on shiney, consumerist DVD, of the original movies put out by Universal, RKO and many others during the 'golden Age' of Screen Terror.
I'm sure there will be a lot more material forthcoming regarding these worthwhile avenues, however.
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