Free Updates

Let us tell you when new posts are added!

Email:

Navigation

Categories

Search

Archives

<January 2009>
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
28293031123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031
1234567

More Links

 Mark Evanier's Blog
News, views, reviews, and more
 Monkey See
NPR's pop culture blog
 Neil Gaiman's Blog
News, responses to fans, and the like
 Paul Curtis' Blog
He's not heavy, he's my brother











 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.
Name
E-mail
Home page

Comment (HTML not allowed)  

Enter the code shown (prevents robots):