MISS PEACH Comic Book

The Drawn & Quarterly blog scans in a story from the 1963 one-shot MISS PEACH comic book. It was not produced by MISS PEACH creator Mell Lazarus (despite the cover signature), but by cartoonist Jack Mendelsohn, who had created the cult favorite King Features strip JACKYS DIARY.

Hat tip to Comics Reporter!

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Cat Curling

I have no idea what this is. Via Cal's Canadian Cave of Coolness.

Don Orehek's Earliest Cartoons

The Don Orehek Cartoons blog shows us a sampling of his CYPHERS strip. Never heard of CYPHERS? Then you weren't in the armed services. CYPHERS was a comic strip that Don drew when he was in the Navy. The lead character was in the tradition of the "bad boy" comics (THE YELLOW KID, SKIPPY, DENNIS THE MENACE, etc.) -- except that this bad boy was a bad old career sailor; an old, drunk sailor who was always getting into trouble. Don has told me about the strip, but until today I never saw samples of this, his earliest published work.

above: Don Orehek, Navy Cartoonist.

Don's wife Suzanne, who is the engine behind Don's blog, provides some background information:

"Don joined the Navy the minute he turned 17 in August 1945. He served on a couple of ships, then in January 1946 he was sent to Green Cove Springs, Florida, a Navy base on the St. Johns river, which incidentally flows north. The sailors in Green Cove worked decommissing ships after World War II. In 1947 Don began work for Public Information on the St. Johns Inlander. He created and drew a comic strip for this weekly base newspaper. The title of the strip was CYPHERS. It was about a toothless old sailor who had been in the Navy 'forever.'"

More here.

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Business Cartoon Batch

"Might as well acclimate them when they're young."

I draw a lot of business cartoons because there are a lot of business cartoon markets. Here's a batch of ten for your perusal.

"Ooh! Let's go there and then Daddy will write off the family vacation."

When I say a "batch" of cartoons, I'm describing about 10 cartoons that I choose and mail (or email) to an editor for publication consideration.

"Wilson! Stop bogarting the bonuses and share the wealth!"

This is a typical batch. Some cartoons are stronger in terms of their "funniness" than others, all touch on some aspect of business.

"Thank goodness I died on Hawaiian Shirt Day, huh?"

This batch is a couple of years old. That's enough time for the cartoons to get to a lot of markets.

"He's not our founder. He just found us the most tax loopholes."

"It's not what you think. I gave the drivers a raise before we flew out."

"Oh, vowels are so 2006!"

"You traded the Harris account for two magic WHAT?"

"Oh, it's a great place to work, but the ergonomics are crap."

"After spending so much time and money on our lawsuit,
don't you think it would be a shame to go ahead and bribe me like this?"

Five of these cartoons were held, four were bought. Two of the cartoons were sold more than one time.

If you like, you can guess which ones sold. I'll let you know later ....