Comics | Last Kiss

No Sex…Again?

by John | May 17, 2012 | Uncategorized

Here’s the original romance art…featuring a scene that appears to be from The Mucho Macho School of Thought.

The school’s motto? “If you don’t stay and make out with me then there’s obviously something wrong with you.”

SCENE: Woman is inside a car (looking upset) and an angry man is leaning down from outside the car to talk through the window to her.

MAN: No sex...again? Good grief, woman! I may have to go home and make love to my wife!

Art by Charles Nicholas & Vince Alascia

I Refuse to Brag

by John | May 15, 2012 | Uncategorized

To the right is the original First Kiss romance art.

Poor Pam is in love with Harry, but Harry totally ignores her heaving bosom!

Until now, all Pam has cared about is her career. So she’s never tried to look beautiful. Or be sexy. (Because how would that ever come in handy in business?)

Her fashion style? Business frumpy!

So now Pam needs to know how to be a real woman—pronto. So, of course, she turns to a man for advice.

Allan—the artist who’s been hanging around her office like a lovesick puppy yapping for her attention—plays Prof. Higgins to her Eliza Doolittle.

After being transformed into a glamour girl, Pam approaches Harry. But it’s…too late!

Harry cheerfully informs her that he’s marrying another woman. Congrats, Harry!

Then Pam meets with Allan and informs him that all their work was for nothing.

Fortunately, this is a romance comic. So she and Allan are in love by the next panel.

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SCENE: Smiling man talking to someone---presumably a woman.

MAN: I refuse to brag about how wonderful I am! So you’ll have to do it for me!

Honeymoon with a Big Family

by John | May 13, 2012 | Uncategorized

The lovely art for this gag came to me courtesy of the late Dick Giordano. In 2001, Dick loaned me a large stack of his Charlton romance art so that I could scan it for Last Kiss.

Charlton probably paid less than any of the other comic publishers. But, oh man…looking at Dick’s work, you’d think it was paying him with trucks full of gold bullion. Dick’s covers were gorgeous.

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SCENE: On board a ship. A ship's officer embraces a woman in the background. In the foreground, looking on sadly, is a woman.

WOMAN IN FOREGROUND (thinking) I want to believe him, but...how many long-lost sisters can he have on one cruise?

Art by Dick Giordano