Comic Art 27 Aug 2006 07:37 am
More of Polly
– As I pointed out in the past, I’m a big fan of Cliff Sterrett‘s comic strip, Polly & Her Pals. It’s an exuberant, funny strip that’s packed with a lively graphic design.
Originally, like a number of other strips, the story was about Polly and her dating life and was called Positive Polly . It didn’t take long for Sterrett to move “Maw” and “Paw” into the household, and before long the strip was about them and renamed. Polly and her boyfriends moved into the background.
Sterrett‘s design of Polly & Her Pals had the life of Herriman’s Krazy Kat strip, but it owed more to Picasso than cartoonists of the past. He used cubism, expressionism and surrealism at the strip’s height in the 20′s.
Polly was accompanied by the “top strip,” Dot and Dash, two dogs that went through their own, non-speaking adventures above Polly’s panels. This was eventually replaced by Sweethearts and Wives, another commentary on marriages.
I can’t get enough of it.
Here are four more of the Sunday pages:
(Click on any image to enlarge.)
- Thanks to Drawn, I was led to a site that gave me the Evolution of Speech Balloons. This is an off-page from Andy Bleck’s website: Andy’s Comix Website. It’s worth visiting both.
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