For Thanksgiving 2019, here's a nice little DROOPY gag from TOM AND JERRY # 228 (Gold Key Comics, Cover Date: February, 1966)...
...Originally printed in TOM AND JERRY # 113 (Dell Comics, Cover Date: December, 1953).
In my personal indexing, and for the index I created at GRAND COMICS DATABASE, I called this gag "Chopping Blocked".
Art is by the great Harvey Eisenberg! ...Enjoy!
4 comments:
Happy Thanksgiving, Joe, to you and yours!
I don't have any comics associated with T'g that I re-read seasonally (as I do for Christmas, New Year's, Easter, Back-to-School and Halloween). I think the problem is that there's not that much in the way of T'g traditions or amusing/scary situations to take off from. Eating turkey, watching football...slim pickings for comics plots.
Besides, it's a uniquely American holiday, so there haven't been new Disney comics written about T'g for many years now. With all the other holidays I listed, there are plenty of Disney comics stories written in recent decades by Europeans, so there's a bigger selection of stories to choose from. Some of my favorite comics stories for the holidays I listed have been written by Europeans since the 1980's.
I do have a couple favorite T'g movies, though: Addams Family Values (for the First Thanksgiving play) and Miracle on 34th Street, which is a Thanksgiving movie, not a Christmas movie! The original Miracle on 34th Street, of course, though I'll allow that the remake wasn't bad, as remakes go. The colorized original, on the other hand, is a travesty. There are other T'g movies I've enjoyed: Home for the Holidays, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Tower Heist, Pieces of April, What's Cooking?--but none of those do I want to watch year after year.
Oh, dear! Oh, golly! Has it really been a year since our last visit to your blog? Is it Thanksgiving again already? We of the Trio of the Talking Turkeys had lost track of time - we'd better flee quickly if we want to make it through tomorrow alive!
We'll be staying with the Ennead of the Eigengrau Easter Eggs in their winter home in Egypt - we know that they won't eat us, especially seeing as they haven't got mouths.
So long, Joe! Happy Thanksgiving!
Elaine:
Way back in 1986, at the start of Gladstone Series I, I made the observation that, since there will only be Disney comics created in Europe from now on (…never imagining the coming of Don Rosa, William Van Horn, and Pat and Shelly Block), I will never see another non-reprint story about Thanksgiving.
…I think that prediction’s held up reasonably well.
NO other version of any kind has surpassed the original “Miracle on 34th Street”!
Really geeky trivia fact… Did you know that certain cues of the music score from the original “Miracle on 34th Street” turned up in BOTH Christmas episodes of LOST IN SPACE? “Return from Outer Space” 1st Season, and my personal favorite “The Toymaker” 2nd Season! More so in the first one than the second, but they are present in both!
As for Thanksgiving viewing, I always turn to the Thanksgiving episode of the now-forgotten FOX Network sitcom TITUS! It may be the single funniest Thanksgiving show I’ve ever seen! I’ve watched that episode on DVD every year since it came out in 2004.
A very happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
Trio of the Talking Turkeys:
Must you rush off so soon? I was hoping you would stay a while, and we could “talk turkey”!
Enjoy Thanksgiving – and Egypt… and be certain not to run a(FOWL) of King Tutanbuono!
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