Pizza or turkey? Either way, here’s some pre-Thanksgiving fun from Tony Isabella & Diego Jourdan Pereira!
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Vince Colletta Studio from the story “I Chose Heartbreak” in First Kiss #37, May 1964. Published by Charlton.
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SCENE: Bald-headed man looks through the kitchen doorway as a younger woman washes dishes and an older woman carries dishes.
MAN: My dears, the pizza delivery man is here…and he has an extra large pepperoni!
OLDER WOMAN: My mouth is watering!
CAPTION: Okay, I know what you’re thinking!
CAPTION: But sometimes a pizza is just a pizza!
CAPTION: But probably not this time...
1964 Art: Vince Colletta Studio Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella Deliveries: John Lustig
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MAN: My dears, the pizza delivery man is here…and he has an extra large pepperoni!
OLDER WOMAN: My mouth is watering!
CAPTION: Okay, I know what you’re thinking!
CAPTION: But sometimes a pizza is just a pizza!
CAPTION: But probably not this time...
1964 Art: Vince Colletta Studio Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella Deliveries: John Lustig
DJP.lk509
37.1.4.6
Mom knows, “A things a phallic symbol if it’s longer than it’s wide.”
Thanks, Melanie.
Did she just break into some stranger’s home? Or did her parents forget her name after just one year?
I was not sure if you were kidding or really asking– but back in the previous times up to the mid-sixties calling someone a “young lady” was a way of identification of the person as no longer a child but not yet a spouse– kind of like “on the market” identification.
And parents were serious to use the term to remind her of her transitional status.
If it was a joke, I apologize, but hearing “Young lady, there is a gentleman here to see you” was also a kind of warning to me– you are not a kid, but behave.
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Well, since everyone knows that jokes are ever more hilarious when they have to be explained: yes, I was attempting a joke. Which clearly succeeded past my wildest expectations. 😉
Yes, I’m aware of that manner of speaking, which has always struck me as an odd way to speak of someone in your family. Like, what are we, in a courtroom? Are you writing a formal report? I have a name.
He looks like a wanna be cone head.
Now this. THIS!, in a just and peaceful world, is what the Internet should be:
https://imgur.com/gallery/nz4Ph54
In addition to Last Kiss, of course.
I am learning more from Last Kiss than I ever did in formal education.
Oddly enough, Peter, me too.
Writing Last Kiss has made me think about things I never would’ve considered otherwise. I know I’m just writing gags, but it’s forced me to think seriously about things I never would’ve considered before!