Mr. Karswell likes nothing more than a nutty 'ol satirical, comic book spoof. We just did it over at THOIA (HERE!) when we married that freaky teen-age fly. Let's do it again here at AEET now, but instead'a monsters, lets take a whackity whack at another Mr. K fave-- L'il Abner! From the madcap March 1954 issue of Premier Magazines Nuts #1, with poor "Lazy May" shorely and sorely gettin' wrung through sum hysterical, hillbilly hi-jinx! Dawww! Artist remains in question...
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I went to the GCD link to check out the Nuts covers and man are those busy! I can see why they only got to 5 issues, I doubt they were flying off the shelves.
Which is kind of weird, because the inside is really restrained. There's a couple good sight gags here and there (the beard having a face on the first panel is my favorite) but most of the humor comes from character interaction or wacky hi jinks.
Again, another artist doing a good job of aping Elder / Wood type of art and some good action.
It's a fun one, for sure!
A second good spoof in a row, with decent satire, an actual plot, and a decent twist ending. The running gag about Li'l Abernathy moving into his parent's outhouse never failed to make me giggle. I like the way the unknown artist used the odd scrap of halftone black here and there for effect, and also the way rocks and the interior of Hairless Moe's tree house were drawn: Those oddly striated wrinkles of texture make those things look like a tiger-striped sand dune.
Just as there were copycats when it came to superhero and horror comics there were, of course, copycats when it came to spoof comics. Some were better than others, and this comic is among the better than many Mad imitators. This tale had a fair amount of side gags/chicken fat, but they didn't detract too much from the basic tale.
This was a fun look at a spoof of Lil' Abner.
Haha, this is awesome! Daisy Mae, err, Lazy May, err, Miz Monroe, sure got the last laugh!
More laughs coming up in August too, —I might do a Spoof-a-Thon, if everyone can handle it!
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