by John | Jun 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
To close out Gay Pride month, here’s a new bit of whimsy from Tony Isabella & Diego Jourdan Pereira.
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Mike Sekowsky from the story “I Need Your Love” in New Romances #16, June 1953.
Transcript:
SCENE: Woman in the foreground looks less than pleased as a woman behind her talks. Further in the background is a man.
WOMAN IN BACKGROUND: Don’t be sad, Jackie. You’re not losing a brother. You’re gaining a sister-in-law…who also likes girls!
CAPTION: Love is love!
1953 Art: Mike Sekowsky Re-Creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: Woman in the foreground looks less than pleased as a woman behind her talks. Further in the background is a man.
WOMAN IN BACKGROUND: Don't be sad, Jackie. You're not losing a brother. You're gaining a sister-in-law...who also likes girls!
CAPTION: Love is love!
1953 Art: Mike Sekowsky Re-Creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
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by John | Jun 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Vince Colletta Studio from the story “Surprise Party” in FIRST KISS #40, 1965.
Transcript:
SCENE: Woman #1 is smiling as she gets kissed on the cheek by Woman #2.
WOMAN #1 (singing): I get bi…with a little help from my friends!
1965 Art: Vince Colletta Studio
New Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: Woman #1 is smiling as she gets kissed on the cheek by Woman #2.
WOMAN #1 (singing): I get bi...with a little help from my friends!
1965 Art: Vince Colletta Studio
New Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
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by John | Jun 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
↓ TranscriptScene: Rodin's statue The Thinker is in the foreground. In the background are a rainbow and some clouds:
The Thinker: I think I’m gay! Therefore...I am!
CAPTION: Happy Pride Month Be who you are!
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by John | Nov 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
Many thanks to Ron Evry and Bruce Simon for permission to use art from one of their fine collections of J.R. Williams’ comics:
Original Art
Transcript:
Scene: Two cowboys riding their horses slowly by a pond. In the background two rabbits run in a field.
COWBOY #1 (sings): Home, home on the range! where the west is wild! and the sex is strange! Oh, if I had brains,I’d come home from the range…and sing soprano after a sex change!
COWBOY #2 (thinks): *
RABBIT #1 (thinks): **
CAPTION: *Thank God I’m too deaf to hear any of this!
CAPTION: **Run away! Run away!
Vintage Art: J.R. Williams New Dialogue: John Lustig
Art from Bruce Simon’s & Ron Evry’sbook:
Hoo-Hah! Out Our Way: The Poetry of J.R. Williams
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↓ TranscriptScene: Two cowboys riding their horses slowly by a pond. In the background two rabbits run in a field.
COWBOY #1 (sings): Home, home on the range! where the west is wild! and the sex is strange! Oh, if I had brains,I’d come home from the range...and sing soprano after a sex change!
COWBOY #2 (thinks): *
RABBIT #1 (thinks): **
CAPTION: *Thank God I’m too deaf to hear any of this!
CAPTION: **Run away! Run away!
Vintage Art: J.R. Williams New Dialogue: John Lustig
Art from Bruce Simon’s & Ron Evry’sbook:
Hoo-Hah! Out Our Way: The Poetry of J.R. Williams
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by John | Aug 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
Artist unknown, but may be Matt Baker. From the story “Second Best Beau” in Hi-School Romance #75, Nov. 1958.
Transcript:
WOMAN (thinking): Is that a man? or A woman? Am I turned on? Or…no! I’m definitely turned on!
1958 Art: Artist unknown, but might be Matt Baker
Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
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↓ TranscriptWOMAN (thinking): Is that a man? or A woman? Am I turned on? Or…no! I’m definitely turned on!
1958 Art: Artist unknown, but might be Matt Baker
Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
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