Just an hour or so late for May Day 2024, we present the perfectly picked cover of DELL FOUR COLOR #202 WOODY WOODPECKER (Dell Comics, Cover Date: November, 1948)!
And fitting for MAY DAY because, after he's treated you to his particular brand of annoying madness, you'll find yourself yelling "MAYDAY!"
Oh, WAIT... Those aren't NUTS he's throwing about... they're NOTES!
...So, I guess we can say that Woody's out [wait for it] "sewing his wild NOTES!"
Ha-ha-ha-HA-ha!
9 comments:
Oof! Don’t quit your day j— oh wait you’re retired, never mind! 😂
Retired from computer programming and related technical work? YES!
Retired from what we do here? NEVER!
Not to needle you, but instead of "sewing" wild notes, don't you mean sowing them?
Thanks for your contribution to this “thread”, Anon.
In this case, your stitch in time saved “mine”!
There are nuts ABOVE Woody, forming the O's in his first and last names! Just saying!
That’s a very odd drawing of Woody Woodpecker. Not because it’s off-model, because it isn’t. Maybe it’s because you seldom saw this level of drawing in Walter Lantz’s cartoons. Most of Woody’s best shorts seemed to be more interested in fast movement and gags over the Disney/Dell Comics style of artistry.
Sorry, everyone, for letting the Blog languish for a little while! Been spending my time on some interesting stuff, that I hope to be able to discuss someday... To your long-overdue (especially Scarecrow) comments...
Scarecrow:
I always liked that Woody logo which was often used in the Dell comics! I guess it’s to show that he was “nuts” … and even “screwy” – if you used a screw instead of a bolt!
That logo eventually gave way, once the comics Woody became more domesticated as we know him best.
Actually, Deb, I think that’s one of the better drawings of Woody that I’ve ever seen! He is particularly well-designed!
And you’re right about him seldom being animated that way! More’s the pity. But, you *could* be “ interested in fast movement and gags” and still carry great designs, as Tom and Jerry (Hanna and Barbera’s earlier shorts – AND the Harvey Eisenberg comic books) bear out.
I think the Dell Comics (especially the earlier ones, pre mid-fifties) had a special type of artistry that was unduplicated anywhere else!
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