by John | Oct 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
Another Halloween treat from Mike Pascale!
Original Vintage Art & Text
Inks by Dick Giordano from the story “Heartbreaker” in FIRST KISS #12, 1960. Click link to read the entire vintage comic for free.
Transcript:
Scene: Young woman and a young man in a booth having a soda. The man is oggling the woman’s breasts. Another man is behind the booth and is also looking at her boobs. The woman smiles and looks towards a zombie who is coming towards her.
MAN #1: Boobs…
MAN #2: Boobs…
ZOMBIE: Braaains!
WOMAN (thinking): I like Bob! He’s not like other boys!
1960 Inks: Dick Giordano Color: Allen Freeman
Additional Art, Idea & Zombification: Mike Pascale
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↓ TranscriptScene: Young woman and a young man in a booth having a soda. The man is oggling the woman's breasts. Another man is behind the booth and is also looking at her boobs. The woman smiles and looks towards a zombie who is coming towards her.
MAN #1: Boobs...
MAN #2: Boobs...
ZOMBIE: Braaains!
WOMAN (thinking): I like Bob! He’s not like other boys!
1960 Inks: Dick Giordano Color: Allen Freeman
Additional Art, Idea & Zombification: Mike Pascale
12.3.1.1.Tall3_Halloween15MP
by John | Oct 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
Don’t be brainless. Get vaccinated!
Zombie art transformation by Mike (the Drawing Dread) Pascale.
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by John Tartaglione from the story “To Stella with Love” from FIRST KISS #3, 1958. Click on link to read the original vintage comic book for free.
Transcript:
SCENE: A woman looking back in surprise at a zombie.
WOMAN: Oh no! Fred, Why didn’t you get vaccinated?
ZOMBIE: i didn’t have any BRAAAINS!
1958 Art: John Tartaglione Zombification: Mike Pascale
Verbosity: the very vaccinated John Lustig
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: A woman looking back in surprise at a zombie.
WOMAN: Oh no! Fred, Why didn’t you get vaccinated?
ZOMBIE: i didn’t have any BRAAAINS!
1958 Art: John Tartaglione Zombification: Mike Pascale
Verbosity: the very vaccinated John Lustig
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by John | Oct 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
I figured yesterday’s comic was going to my last Halloween gag this year. But then this idea popped into my head a couple of hours ago. And I already had the perfect art for it thanks to my pal Mike Pascale. So…I went for it. Happy Halloween!
Art by John Tartaglione from the story “The Sea Green Eyes!” from First Kiss #5, 1958.
Transcript:
SCENE: Male zombie and very human and alive girl are hugging.
GIRL: I voted early!
ZOMBIE: I knew you had…braaains!
1958 Inks: John Tartaglione Color: Allen Freeman Gag: John Lustig
Zombification & Additional Color: Mike Pascale
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: Male zombie and very human and alive girl are hugging.
GIRL: I voted early!
ZOMBIE: I knew you had...braaains!
1958 Inks: John Tartaglione Color: Allen Freeman Gag: John Lustig
Zombification & Additional Color: Mike Pascale
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by John | Feb 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
Happy Valentine’s Day from me and my pal (& frequent collaborator) Mike Pascal.
I’m not sure why Mike and I keep coming up with zombie LK comics for V. Day. We’ve also done a fair amount of Cupid gags for the holiday. Hmm. I can see where this is going and—no, Mike, we’re not a doing zombie Cupid comic next year!
(Unless, of course it’s very, very funny—and tasteful.)
Art by Dick Giordano from the story “My Secret” in First Kiss #27, Aug. 1962.
Transcript:
SCHOOL GIRL #1: My Valentine has heart!
SCHOOL GIRL #2: Mine has brains!
ZOMBIE GIRL: Mine had both…and they were delicious!
1962 Art: Dick Giordano Color: Allen Freeman & Mike Pascal Zombie Makeover & Dating Advice: Mike Pascale
Art Code: 27.1.1.2_MP
↓ TranscriptSCHOOL GIRL #1: My Valentine has heart!
SCHOOL GIRL #2: Mine has brains!
ZOMBIE GIRL: Mine had both...and they were delicious!
1962 Art: Dick Giordano Color: Allen Freeman & Mike Pascal Zombie Makeover & Dating Advice: Mike Pascale
Art Code: 27.1.1.2_MP
by John | Oct 29, 2017 | Uncategorized
Happy Halloween from me & my frequent collaborator Mike Pascale. May all your tricks be treats! —John
Art Notes: Few pieces of Last Kiss art have gone through as many changes as today’s comic. Here’s the original 1963 FIRST KISS art:
Art by Vince Colletta Studio from FIRST KISS #33, 1963.
And here’s the art after I asked Allen Freemen to extend the drawing (of the woman on the left) back in 2009. (To simplify the art and focus on the coffee drinker, I also asked Allen to omit the woman on the right:)
Years later, I needed a higher-res version of the image for a zombie coffee gag for a Finnish licensee who put it on a travel mug. So Diego Jourdan Pereira re-drew Allen’s art for me and then Mike Pascale added the zombie touches:
And then this year—when Mike and I were scrambling for Halloween gags—I suggested he modify his coffee zombie (removing the coffee and adding some blood around the mouth.) See? Simple! (When!)
Transcript:
SCENE: Zombie woman thinking.
ZOMBIE WOMAN: When we broke up, he told me to…eat my heart out! But his was so much tastier!
1963 Artist: Vince Colletta Studio Re-Creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Master of Macabre Modifications: Mike Pascale
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Art by Vince Colletta Studio from FIRST KISS #33, 1963.
↓ TranscriptSCENE: Zombie woman thinking.
ZOMBIE WOMAN: When we broke up, he told me to...eat my heart out! But his was so much tastier!
1963 Artist: Vince Colletta Studio Re-Creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Master of Macabre Modifications: Mike Pascale
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FK33.3.7.5
Art by Vince Colletta Studio from FIRST KISS #33, 1963.
