Bill Peckmann &Comic Art &Illustration 17 Apr 2010 10:15 am
Jack Davis tearsheets
- This just in from Bill Peckmann, an excellent piece from the great cartoonist, Jack Davis. In Bill’s words:
This . . . “is a page from Hank Harrison’s ‘the Art Of Jack Davis’ which explains Jack’s strip, and the next three are tear sheets that Jack had made up at that time. Hope the scan isn’t destroying Jack’s fine pen line.”
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on 17 Apr 2010 at 11:25 am 1.Eric Noble said …
Not bad. I think Kurtzman should have taken over the writing. It would have been funnier. Anyway, fantastic artwork as always from Mr. Davis. He is one of my favorite cartoonists of all time. Thanks for posting this.
on 17 Apr 2010 at 2:08 pm 2.Oscar Solis said …
Thanks for posting these. Too funny.
on 19 Apr 2010 at 10:30 am 3.Ted Nunes said …
Interesting. I grew up in the South and while I wasn’t raised to have a chip on my shoulder about it, I remember my grandmother DID take the Civil War very seriously. (she wouldn’t have appreciated this comic.)
Like other Southerners that were still sore about it, she preferred to use the term “War Between the States.” I once came in her house, as a kid–actually whistling “Dixie”–and she stopped me and gave me a lecture about how I SHOULD be proud to be from Dixie. (I, of course, had never even really thought about what the song was about.)
Shame this strip got shut down. Davis’s style was perfect for that era. Hell, they got Hogan’s Heroes made.