tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post5531187603233526927..comments2024-03-27T01:21:03.543-07:00Comments on Yowp: Flintstones Weekend Comics, May 1963Yowphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-54934897161557274532013-05-24T18:06:56.190-07:002013-05-24T18:06:56.190-07:00Has anything ever illustrated the differences betw...Has anything ever illustrated the differences between Seasons 1-2 and what soon followed better than that final strip? …Poor old Dino! <br /><br />BTW, I really liked the “Thinking Pebbles” strips that came later. Her thoughts were every bit as insightful and entertaining as, oh say… Snoopy’s. At least, to my recollection. In the comic books her thoughts were sometimes conveyed, not in thought balloons, but in POV captions – for occasional stories that “saw things” from her POV. <br /><br />And Yowp is right about Hazleton’s drawings of eyes. In the late sixties and very early seventies, when I last saw the strip, he did this thing (for a look of what I can best describe as “annoyed bemusement”) where he’d draw a SINGLE LINE running through the slightly upper portion of BOTH EYES (the same line through the pair of eyes, and whatever space there might have been between them) – acting, I suppose, as eyelids. <br /><br />Anyone who’s seen it might remember what I mean. I liked that, and incorporated it into my junior-high era drawing style (even for other characters like Donald Duck and Woody Woodpecker, as well as the Flintstones), back when I had youthful dreams of working for Gold Key Comics. (Imagine that, silly me!) <br /><br />Yowp, I really hope you’re not going to “retire” in July, because I’ll miss this Blog more than Johnny Carson and LOST put together! <br />Joe Torciviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421096229407174474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-80395923374249442742013-05-24T15:38:15.157-07:002013-05-24T15:38:15.157-07:00The May 12th strip may have been inspired by a Don...The May 12th strip may have been inspired by a Don Martin cartoon, "At The Dentist," in MAD Magazine #66. The dentist sees a gentleman in obvious pain and says, "Teeth bothering you, huh?" He throws the gent on the chair and after a long scream-filled struggle extracts the tooth. "What's this you say? Teeth still bothering you?! You only had one and I just pulled it!" Turns out a dog is clinging to the gent's rear.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17446855706531749726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-19180787587756755892013-05-23T00:28:57.655-07:002013-05-23T00:28:57.655-07:00SC, yeah, Gene Hazelton had an odd way of drawing ...SC, yeah, Gene Hazelton had an odd way of drawing the characters after awhile, especially the eyes. They didn't look like the TV cartoons.<br />As for the blog, I've got posts to the end of July and it's only because I had time off work last November and banged off a bunch.Yowphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-17347449069510957392013-05-22T18:06:51.254-07:002013-05-22T18:06:51.254-07:00It looks like Pebbles is becoming a steady fixture...It looks like Pebbles is becoming a steady fixture by now. There's quite a bit of evidence that she's still a new arrival, as in Fred's attempt to get her to settle down in her crib, and Dino's twinge of jealousy in the last panel of the fourth strip. Later on in the comic strip, of course, she becomes a commentator on the actions of the others via thought balloons. I wonder how long it is before Pops becomes part of the scene? I have to admit I like these early to mid sixties strips better than those of the seventies, because the artwork is so much more detailed and the characters are on-model for the most part. I love the contrast between panels four and five of the first strip, Fred tiptoeing with Pebbles and then frustrated at her outburst. The nurse and doctor in strip two look like many of the medical personnel that appeared in the TV show. This really looks like The Flintstones, unlike several of the strips from later years that I've seen, and we're still very much in the Stone Age milieu instead of in the everyman/everyday world that gradually evolved in the comic strip.<br /><br />These are a delight. And it's fun to see how the strip evolved over the years. Still thoroughly enjoying this month-to-month romp--and the Yogis, too! Thanks once again, Yowp!scarecrow33https://www.blogger.com/profile/10552306802823617940noreply@blogger.com