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Friday, September 05, 2008
More Strips from the Past: Archie
Posted by maggie
Bob Montana wrote and drew the Archie newspaper strip from 1947 until his death in 1975. Bob Cowan's
posting of Sunday originals
from the 1950s credits Jeffrey Cuddy Jr. as ghosting for Montana during that period, and the style on these strips from 1965 looks the same.
(I will note that Don and I found the strip suddenly much changed in script and art following Montana's sudden death, so I'm not sure about the extent to which Cuddy handled the feature.) In any case, the strip was Montana's responsibility at this point, and we always found it (1) beautifully drawn and (2) funny.
9/5/2008 9:49:19 AM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)
Comments [1]
9/21/2008 12:57:09 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)
This is the first I've read of Bob Montana using a ghost artist
on the Archie comic strip, but I agree with the Thompsons...it
was a sharply drawn and funny feature back in its day, when the
creator of the character was in charge and at the peak of his
game.
Have the publishers considered a reprint collection of the Best
of Archie newspaper strips? That too is long overdue; a paperback from the '70's is the only reprint of the feature that
I've come across.
Sam Kujava
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