Tuesday, June 6, 2023

COVER UPDATES: UFO - HO HO!



Risque reprint of Joseph Farris' cartoon compilation, courtesy Belmont-Tower Books, 1970. This reprint clumsily adapts one of his toons for the new cover art. In Farris' original version it seemed that the lovely space giantess was the one commenting, however the new cover version makes it explicit with a word bubble that it's one of the lil' astronauts lamenting their lot. A closer inspection of Farris' version confirms that it is definitely one of the men speaking, resetting the scene to the default male POV instead of the whimsical, winsome perspective that I'd originally assumed.

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  1. Anonymous6/06/2023

    Tsk tsk smh

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  2. Anonymous6/07/2023

    The artstyle makes me think of some things I saw in a collection of space/sci-fi themed cartoons that had appeared in Punch magazine, the best of which had two little green men asking Harold MacMillan to "take us to your leader". Do you know if Farris drew for Punch?

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    1. Anonymous6/07/2023

      According to this obituary he did: https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.comics.strips/c/LTPZqON2zHI?pli=1

      I don't know if he drew the Macmillan cartoon, it's not in this collection.

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