Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Art Saaf & Mike Peppe from the story “Kiss and Run” in New Romances #14, Dec. 1952.Curious to see more? Click the link to read the entire vintage comic book.
Transcript:
SCENE: A man is sitting at a desk in an office. Giant 1950s computer banks are in the background. A woman is standing in front of the man and talking to him.
MAN: A woman? Sorry! I hired one…once. it didn’t work out!
WOMAN: I know, Dad! Mom still hasn’t forgiven you…for firing her!
1952 Art: Art Saaf & Mike Peppe Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Father of a Genius: John Lustig
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SCENE: A man is sitting at a desk in an office. Giant 1950s computer banks are in the background. A woman is standing in front of the man and talking to him.
MAN: A woman? Sorry! I hired one...once. it didn’t work out!
WOMAN: I know, Dad! Mom still hasn’t forgiven you...for firing her!
1952 Art: Art Saaf & Mike Peppe Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Father of a Genius: John Lustig
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MAN: A woman? Sorry! I hired one...once. it didn’t work out!
WOMAN: I know, Dad! Mom still hasn’t forgiven you...for firing her!
1952 Art: Art Saaf & Mike Peppe Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Father of a Genius: John Lustig
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“If you care to leave your name…
…we’ll incorporate it into the rude comments we’ll make about you behind your back.”
…instead of your pictures. Please. Whatever you do. Take these hideous, hideous pictures of yourself with you. Egad. They’re like autopsy photos on a body that’s been underwater for a year.”
…I mean, you’ve already left your virginity and self respect. Might as well go for the trifecta.”
…we’ll give you a call if any jobs for frumpish, no chin types become available.”
…we’ll write it under the words “For a good time call” above every urinal in the city.”
Wow. Several of these actually made me laugh out loud, Jams. I almost never LOL for real when I’m reading something. Excellent writing, pal!
“ …we’ll give you a call if any jobs for frumpish, no chin types become available.”
You forgot flat-chested!! Oh, okay, not flat, but tiny-t!tt!ed.
But…but…but…that’s _exactly_ what fashion models are supposed to be!
(They want you to see the clothes, not the woman.)
Now this is what I grew up thinking how a fashion model looked…
https://www.pinterest.com/annigbm/mopsy-modes-and-friends-pds/
And, yet, she must be the artist’s model of a dream girl–I guess. Either that or he was just trying to save time and ink by not having to draw the extra curves.
Isn’t there a committee studying the flat-chested situation?
There was, but it got dismissed for making a mountain out of a mole hill.
That was funny, made me laugh out loud!!!
As Joel McHale used to say on “The Soup”:
Chicks, man….