Strips where the artist intervenes

[Dunder Ed]

This is the Front and Back pages of the Beano 1972 annual. It shows the artist intervening with the Bash Street Kids.

[Phoenix]

I've just come across this example in The Topper Book for 1976.

[stevezodiac]

I've just put one of those Treasury sized comics on ebay House of Mystery and it reprints the story "His Name Is Kane" which features Gil Kane being pulled into the horror tale he is drawing. It's large size means I can't scan it in comfortably but if anyone has the original HOM they might oblige. Here's the title panel though.

[Digifiend]

I guess Comix Zone wasn't so original after all. It's a Mega Drive video game, later re-released on Game Boy Advance, and you play as Sketch Turner, who gets pulled into his own superhero comic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comix_Zone

[philcom55]

I've just put one of those Treasury sized comics on ebay House of Mystery and it reprints the story "His Name Is Kane" which features Gil Kane being pulled into the horror tale he is drawing.

Oddly enough I'd never noticed the dedication 'To Gil from Eli - I Love You' on that picture in front of Gil Kane's drawing board. It's actually quite a witty joke as Gil's original name was Eli Katz!

- Phil R.

[stevezodiac]

I wondered who Eli was . I checked this morning and the HOM and Ghosts treasury sized specials have both attracted bids....by my mate, Steve. Saves posting them if he wins though. I'm downsizing my collection and he's upsizing his - but he does have a four bedroomed house.

[Phoenix]

There is something quite curious going on in the Doonesbury strip in The Guardian this week. I don't follow it sufficiently closely to know the names of all the characters, but one of the younger women, whose father, Doonesbury, is handing over controlling authority to her, after 42 years as the title character, is addressing the readers and talking about taking over the strip. She then goes on to state that she sees her job as freshening up the strip by introducing new characters, themes and arcs, and even possibly changing the name of the strip itself. She then introduces us to the characters she is retaining. She will occasionally check in with the Popster, but Jeff, who assumes he will be part of the new strip, is roundly rejected. I wonder what cartoonist Garry Trudeau thinks he can do to combat such people power!!

[matrix]

Here's Biffo, getting the "Beano" artist to brighten up his strip with some striped paint!

[DavidKW]

Doodle! now that's a blast from the past! I remember one he had a kilt drawn on him & made a mess of tossing a caber.

One memorable artist intervention was the 1976? Beano annual (the one with Bash Street kids got cover to themselves - were all riding a horse), where Minnie The Minx objects to be artist about being drawn in orange (and black & white). She then gets drawn in blue, then artist adds a winter scene, a pool which she fishes in, then a no fishing sign & policeman. Minnie then pleads for another colour, where it's back to orange, which prompts Minnie to throw her sweater into the washer, which the artist then washes his orange brush in.

Can also rmemeber in one of the Beano comics in Pup Parade (which I personally never rated), where two of them grab the artists pencil to badly draw some bones, until they give it back & the artist draws muzzles on them.

[AndyB]

You forgot the last page of the Minnie strip - the artist drew a despondent Minnie a massive glass of orange juice.

[Raven]

You forgot the last page of the Minnie strip - the artist drew a despondent Minnie a massive glass of orange juice.

Indeed ...

[musiquetom]

On the Cheeky Weekly blog I've just posted an example of the Little Ed strip from Whoopee!

http://cheekyweekly.blogspot.co.uk/2012 ... heeky.html

I know this wasn't the first strip to include the artist as one of the characters, whose hand is seen drawing or altering the artwork as the strip progresses. It probably wasn't the last, either.

Can anyone supply the names of other strips that used this idea?

[Marionette]

The idea possibly comes from a Daffy Duck cartoon where the animator continually redraws reality around Daffy to make life difficult for him, eventually pulling back to reveal that the animator is Bugs Bunny. I don't recall the title.

[Raven]

We already have a jolly good thread on this, Marionette:

http://comicsuk.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4980

For some reason, musiquetom just reproduced niblet's opening post (so can a moderator delete this thread soon?). Welcome to the forum, by the way!

Easier just to merge it! - Andy

[blaing]

The idea possibly comes from a Daffy Duck cartoon where the animator continually redraws reality around Daffy to make life difficult for him, eventually pulling back to reveal that the animator is Bugs Bunny. I don't recall the title.

The cartoon in question was "Duck Amuck", directed by Chuck Jones.

There was a less successful sequel in which Bugs was antagonised by an unknown artist, which turns out to be Elmer Fudd (Rabbit Rampage)