Friday, February 23, 2024

CoronaVirus Comics MAD "Look at Modern-Day Bacteria"

Think our concerns about diseases and a possible plague are something new?
This never-reprinted feature from MAD Magazine #153 (1972) combines humor with medicine and then-current politics!
Among those whom writers Max Brandel & Frank Jacobs and artist Bob Clarke skewer are President Richard Nixon (R), Vice-President Spiro Agnew (R), conservative Presidential candidate George Wallace (I), and the radical liberal Students for a Democratic Society!
(Google them if you're too young to remember!)

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Valentine's Day in the Emergency Room SOUL LOVE "Dedicated Nurse"

This story is unique because it is presented from scans of the hand-drawn art...
...from Jack (King) Kirby's proposed 1970s b/w magazine Soul Love!
We would have presented pages from the printed comic/magazine the way we usually do...except it wasn't published...until very recently!
(We'll explain below!)
NSFW / NSFS note...it is somewhat "politically incorrect"...but not for the reason you might think!
(Hey, look! A "Kirby Quote"!)
You'll note pages 5 and 6 aren't as "clean" as the other pages, which are scanned from the actual original art!
They're scanned from photocopies, which are the only versions I could acquire, but they're legible enough to "fill out" the tale!
(Oh, man! More "Kirby Quotes"!)
Written/penciled/edited by Jack Kirby and inked by Vince Colletta, the story takes the typical attitude of the period about overweight women, though Aleda's not actually obese.
(In fact, I was involved with a woman who had a similar body type, which I found extremely-appealing!)

You can read about the Soul Love magazine project by clicking HERE.
The Soul Love tales were finally published as a full-color comic book-style insert in 2020's Dingbat Love hardcover book, which we conveniently linked-to below!
Thanks to Kracalactaka for the scans.
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Friday, February 9, 2024

CoronaVirus Comics SURGEON X "Path of Most Resistance" Chapter 2: Relative Insanity...Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

In a near-future dystopia where power and/or money dictate how much rationed health care you receive, overworked Dr Rosa Scott aka Surgeon X aids those she deems worthy and who need medical care, but have neither money or power.
It's a dangerous thing to do when the government holds tight control over everything medical, but she's clever and audacious.
Unfortunately, her extremely-vital tech support (aka her genius, but unstable, brother Lewis) is going off the rails...
I'd say the "insanity" is just beginning, but that's just me!
We'll return to the world of Surgeon X in March.
But Next Week...
It's Valentine's Day!
And we'll be posting on Wednesday instead of Friday!

In the meantime, go...HERE
(And yes, I'm as surprised as you are that the site is still up almost a decade later!)

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Friday, February 2, 2024

CoronaVirus Comics SURGEON X "Path of Most Resistance" Chapter 2: Relative Insanity Part 2

Read the Previous Post NOW...

...then Proceed with the Story of Life (and Death) in a Dystopian Near-Future...

To Be Continued...
NEXT FRIDAY!
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PICTURE STORIES FROM SCIENCE "Fighting Germs with Germs: the Story of Vaccination and Innoculation"

This comic tale from the 1940s explains the benefits of vaccination  in such a simple, graphic way... ...that even a regressive Reich-wing a...