ART: Covers By Marko Djurdjevic

Now these are the kinds of scans that make for an easy posting. All the commentary is already provided by the artist himself. So I ain't gotta say much of anything other than good design work and a strong feel for composition more than make up for the using of photoshop™. (yeah, I'm one those complainers who are usually against the over-use of digital art in modern comics)

from THE MARVEL ART OF MARKO DJURDJEVIC (ISBN: 978-0-7851-3962-1) 2009




















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I honestly like that last one the most. Howard was always one of my favorite characters.
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THE BEAGLE BOYS

For some reason, almost all of the characters created by the legendary Carl Barks got their own solo titles at some point. As unlikely as it seems, the Beagle Boys even got their own title that ran for forty-seven issues over the course of fifteen years (it's schedule was very irregular).

This story features one of the few other characters that didn't have his own book: Gladstone Gander.

from THE BEAGLE BOYS #12, 1971











I highly doubt that the character's name was coincidental. By 1971, Richie Rich was Harvey's top selling title. Perhaps the writer just got tired of using Uncle Scrooge??




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Sunday Funnies: HOWARD THE DUCK

The HOWARD THE DUCK newspaper strip ran for sixteen months in 1977-78.
It has never been reprinted since it's original run, and remains one of the lost treasures of Marvel history. This is the final story arc of the series, which is a spoof of 30s film noir, while being an homage to the screwball comedies of the same era.

By Marv Wolfman and Alan Kupperberg.












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Sunday Funnies: DONALD DUCK

Everybody knows Donald Duck from TV, movies, and comic books, but here's a little known fact: he actually rose in popularity largely because of his appearances in newspaper comics. He had never had a solo cartoon feature until after this sequence of strips we're going to look at.
Amazingly, Disney had these buried away in the vaults and probably would never have reprinted them if it weren't for the efforts of the guys at GLADSTONE PUBLISHING.

By Al Taliaferro.
from DONALD DUCK #280, September 1993 (strips from 1936)













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