Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Adventures in Comic-Boxing: Keep Your Enemies Close...

 
Here's an unusual cover for a Western Publishing (Dell/Gold Key/Whitman Comics) funny animal comic.  And, it's one that I like a lot, for it's mere simplicity and effectiveness! 

TWEETY AND SYLVESTER #117 (Whitman Comics, No Cover Date but released in 1983). 


Unlike most Tweety and Sylvester comic book covers - and all of their cartoons - Sylvester is not aggressively pursuing Tweety, and Tweety is not aggressively defending himself against Sylvester.  

Perhaps tuckered-out from all that "aggressive stuff", canary and cat lie placidly in vertically-adjacent and size-appropriate hammocks... But with the added touch of keeping one eye open and trained on the other!  

Proof that every such cover need not be action-packed to carry off a good gag!  

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