Think Small published by Volkswagen
Yes, Volkswagen. It was part of their Think Small advertising campaign, it came out in 1967 and was given away by Volkswagen dealers.
It's a collection of cartoons and humor articles.
Now you'd think that the people doing the articles would realize that since this is an advertising device they would make sure to include Volkswagen into their work. (The cartoonists realized this and if the joke wasn't about a Volkswagen then they'd draw a Volkwagen in the cartoon.) However Jean Shepherd's My Dream Car and Roger Price's The Sad Story of the Manufacturer, the High Powered Adman and the Motivational Expert don't mention Volkswagen at all.
The Complete Cartoons Of The New Yorker published by Black dog & Levanthal
Sammy Davis, Jr., dials a wrong number.
"in ll sincerity"
There is room for an A before the double LLs, but it's not there.
Nature's Greatest Conflicts
Grungy nitpicking. The killer whale looks more like a sperm whale.
Speed Bump
People looking up in the air and on the ground is a shodowy outline of a car.
Amusing, but if the car was up in the air casting a shadow we shouldn't see the wheels.
Lover Boy (5092) published by Dell
NANJAO. I think this was actually an original book of cartoons rather than collected from another source.
NANJAO. This collection by Stanley & Janice Berenstain was written and drawn years before their first Bears book.
The first page of the first chapter has "1. The Great Lover", but all the other chapter openings omit the chapter numbers.
Thelwell Country featured Norman Thelwell's cartoons of the English countryside rather than his more famous "little girls on fat, little ponies" cartoons.
Foreward Thelwell Country (Dutton)
Page 2. The word is supposed to be 'humour', but it looks like "numour", although looking at it with a magnifying glass it appears the top of the lower case H got cut off rather than someone typing an N.
Was at a book sale and picked up the Ripley's Believe Or Not! 16th Series book and was surprised to note that on the spine it is not listed as a Comic or something like that, but is instead listed as Games.
Bwha? How exactly does it qualify as a game? It's not like there are answers to which legends are true and which false.
Believe it... or not!
Based on the Gold Key had a run of Ripley's Believe It Or Not, from back in the 1970's.
I remember reading some issues.
Before that Harvey Comics had a Ripley's Believe It Or Not comic book.
There were RBION radio & TV shows.
When sports cartoonist Robert Ripley decided to draw up some oddball non-sports tidbits on a day with no sports news he really hit the jackpot.
There was an interview of him in the April 1931 issue of Modern Mechanics and Inventions where it was mentioned he made a million dollars a year from the strip.
Believe it or... well, you know. ;-)
I remember the Prime Time series that Jack Palance hosted.
Yeah, although I didn't care for how quiet his voice would get when he said the catchphrase so it was almost hard to hear.
Years ago a comics blogger was complaining about how many people were only familiar with the TV versions and didn't know it started off as a newspaper comic strip.
...and didn't know it started off as a newspaper comic strip.
Believe it or not.
:-)
Years ago a comics blogger was complaining about how many people were only familiar with the TV versions and didn't know it started off as a newspaper comic strip.
Bet you most those people the blogger mentioned were born in the 1980's or after. How many that generation even read newspapers anymore?
Yep.
According to Wikipedia the strip is still running... Believe It Or Not! ;-)
I also see that in 2002 Dark Horse ran a three-issue miniseries, and in 2015 Zenescope published a two issue series. [Insert catchphrase here]
Guess newspapers will hang on until the last of the pre-Internet generations dies off. About another 50 years or so.
Or until another Carrington Event hits and wipes out the internet and we're forced to go back to printing news, comics, and advertisements on dead trees again.
;-)
*one trip to Wikipedia later*
Were something like tat to happen, civilization would collapse.
Well, yes and no. There are ways to protect our infrastructure from such an event, and we can see them coming from hours to days in advance, so we would have enough warning to prepare. Problem is, it would involve turning off everything and hunkering down while the event lasts. That would have to be done by everyone world wide, and we have no protocol in place to implement such an action. So yeah, as things stand, we would probably be screwed.
Tim - Were something like tat to happen, civilization would collapse.
Maybe knocked back to the 19th century, but not collapse entirely. Heck even the early part of the 20th century was not that dependent on electrical systems.
Yes, but anyone born after 1995 have never known a world with no Internet. They'll be utterly lost when their IPhones quit working.
Ever see the deer in headlights look store cashiers (most in their late teens or early 20's) get when the cash registers go down? They are simply not trained to handle such a situation. Imagine that worldwide.