Here's a quick single-page comic filler by Dan Gordon Irv Spector. (thanks to Bob Jaques for the correction!)
It's one of many one-pagers that appeared in ACG comics' The Kilroys in the 1940's and 1950's.
I've always loved single-page comic stories, but when I started writing and drawing them for Nickelodeon Magazine, I really had to go "back to the books" and study them.
There's a real science to it!
Here's the full-page scan below. Just give it a CLICK and a bigger version of the comic page will open in a new window.
I'm always amazed at how quickly the cartoonist can establish the setting and conflict. I mean, they HAVE to do it fast...there's not that much room to move. This example by Dan Gordon Irv Spector is pretty typical.
| In the first panel, he gives us the set-up. It's not just 100% on-the-nose, The sun is melting, Algy is sweating and tugging at his collar in a fine display of cartoon-cliche. Just to amplify the feeling, he adds another guy in the background who's also sweatin' up a storm. |
| By panel #2 Algy has the solution to his problem and we're on our way. Notice the panting and sweating dog that reinforces the heat. |
This is not "art," it's communication. In two panels we know who, what, where, when and why.
Pretty forgettable gag. But the drawings are nice, huh?
| Anyway, I've got a few more one-pagers to post in the coming weeks, so we'll see what happens. -------------- Stay tuned for a couple short-short comics featuring Cookie's pals Jitterbuck and "The Brain." |  |
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