Friday, May 22, 2020
The Robots Take Over
It's another two-page magazine comedy spread, and edited together for your added excitement and enjoyment! And if you saw the recent "zany" post over at THOIA (be sure to CLICK HERE for it if you've missed it), then here's another extra bonus from the December 1958 issue of Zany #2, featuring one of Mr. Karswell's favorite subjects-- ROBOTS! The writing is a bit dated, but the artwork is "fun, fun, fun til the robots come and take you awaaaaaaay..."
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Wow, "appearances" by Ernie Kovacs and Jerry Lewis! Too bad they didn't help with the writing.
I'm glad for the labels on the caricatures--I thought Richard Boone was Eli Wallach from Baby Doll.
Bob Hope having to lug Robo-Bing Crosby's golf clubs around was pretty funny. Totally dig the art! At what point did MAD start using squared word balloons? Certainly by the sixties, but I had trouble looking it up quickly. I know for a while the new magazine format shied away from anything that looked much like comics. But whatever inspired them to stack rectangular speech balloons sure did change the look of comic satire across the board. It's like a laugh track. Whenever I see this look I know the material is hilarious--whether it actually is or not.
There's so much to love about this art. I just adore your 50s rubber armed robots with bucket heads. The spaceship is great, and all the good girl (good robot girl) art is fun.
sometimes I think I should've started a robot blog
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