Original art from First Kiss #21 (1961.)
Although Ed Bertoli won first place in last week’s big Couple-Up contest on Facebook, there was a smaller version of the contest going on over at GoComics.
A surprisingly large number of GoComics readers told me that they’d rather be flogged in their skivvies on national TV than submit anything on Facebook. And then they started submitting their entries on my GoComics page.
I’ll admit I’m a softie. I crumbled and told them that I’d pick an additional winner—this one from just the submissions made on GoComics.
And here it is—and admirably short and funny gag from someone who goes by the moniker of old1953. Who is he or she? Beats me.
But if he/she contacts me and wants to go public, I’ll let you know.
I would have something witty to say right now, but I think I’m officially asleep and not allowed to make jokes. I need a lot of snooze time to recover from another exciting—but-now-I’m-exhausted—Emerald City Comicon weekend.
Original art from First Kiss #36 (1964.) Click image to enlarge.
Today’s Last Kiss: Do you know your liquor? Or are you a champagne poser?
Original art from First Kiss #31 (1963) from a three-page story about the importance and joy of taking care of your teeth. Art by Dick Giordano.
We had hundreds of submissions in the first Last Kiss Couple-Up Contest and many of them were outstanding. But only one could win.
Congratulations to Ed Bertoli who came up with an excellent and very funny flaw for a conniving husband’s homemade robot spouse.
Runners-Up: Keiko Alvarez, Gary Dunaier, Charles Kramer, Helen Stockfleth, and Jacqueline Hallenbeck.
You can see their hilarious submissions and many more here.
