Ok, how about this for an idea. We take it in turns to post a favourite (British spelling) comic cover every day. This went really well on the comic fan website that I used to frequent. What we tried to do was find a theme or subject and follow that, until we all got bored with that theme. I'd like to propose a theme of letters of the alphabet. So, for the remainder of October (only 5 days) and all of November, we post comic cover pictures associated with the letter "A". Then in December, we post covers pertaining to the letter "B". The association to the letter can be as tenuous as you want it to be. For example I could post a cover from "Adventure Comics" or "Amazing Spider Man". However Spider Man covers can also be posted when we're on the letter "S". Adventure Comic covers could also be posted when we're on the letter "L" if they depict the Legion of Super Heroes. So, no real hard, fast rules - in fact the cleverer the interpretation of the letter, the better, as far as I'm concerned.
And it's not written in stone that we have to post a cover every day. There may be some days when no cover gets posted. There's nothing wrong with this, it just demonstrates that we all have lives to lead.
If everyone's in agreement I'd like to kick this off with one of my favourite Action Comic covers, from January 1967. Curt Swan really excelled himself here.
Discussion and voting on future monthly themes takes place on the "Nominations, Themes and Statistics for A Cover A Day" thread. Click here to view the thread.
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Rosh Hashanah begins today at sundown. Batman #33 illustrates the well-known cultural paradox of Golden/Silver Age comics, shared by studio era Hollywood. An industry built by Jewish creators sold to a mainly Gentile world, and depict its characters celebrating that world which, at the time, was often hostile towards their faith and culture. Mind you, this is an amusing Christmas cover, a little out of season at present:
The second one's not in-theme, but it illustrates the more diverse range of contemporary comics:
I have three cartoons that apply to Yiddish words and dietary rules for Jews and Muslims. I don’t know how well they would work in the Comical Comic Cuts thread, so here is a brief threadjack.
My late wife Gayle was raised to be a Reform Jew. Wikipedia says that this denomination is progressive, as is my own Episcopalian faith. I was present for a friendly conversation she had with a Muslim coworker. He was slightly dismayed that Gayle didn’t observe Kosher dietary practice. Gayle said, “but bacon is good!” As far as I can tell, the main difference between Kosher and Halal dietary rules is that in Kosher you aren’t supposed to eat dairy products with meat. That’s why the Halal Kitty can have a cheeseburger, but not a bacon burger (and not alcohol).
Halal Kitty is brilliant!
ANGAR THE SCREAMER sure dressed like a hippie! An evil hippie but a hippie nonetheless!
Every once in awhile a real person appeared on a comic book cover, as shown in this example courtesy of the Grand Comics Database. I'm guessing the technology of the day kept both images from appearing in color, but the physical interaction between the two is interesting.
This month's theme was originally listed as "Beatniks, Hippies, Hipsters, Punks, Slackers etc (yeah, whatevs)". Here's a punk-featuring cover I've just found on Mr Kitty's "Stupid Comics":
I stumbled onto this cover online. I'd like to read this:
And ordered, along with Gaslight Gallery (comics set in the Victorian). Has anyone here looked at Klassik Komix before? They have a weird range of niche comic collections, which seem to include both public domain and original material, things like obscure superheroes, pirates, public domain Canadian superheroes, pin-up 'good girl' stuff, monster-themed panel cartoons, and so on. This feels like it could be excellent, or I could end up feeling like the kid who ordered the X-Ray Specs or the two complete armies in a footlocker.*
*My brother and I ordered brine shrimp sea monkeys when I was a kid and were suitably disappointed. My wife recalls ordering the spy telescope pen and the remote control cheap rubbery plastic bat, and my best friend had two really cheap tiny complete armies in a footlocker and the Monster-Size Frankenstein printed on garbage bag quality plastic.
Actually, this footnote could be a thread. Anyone else?
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