George Carlson worked on a completely different plane than his cartooning contemporaries. The fanciful cartoon worlds that he created for Jingle Jangle Comics look fresh and new even after 65 years!
This opening panel really gets you ready to dive in to his nonsensical fairy-tale comedy adventures!
The Pie-Face Prince of Old Pretzleburg was a series that ran in George Carlson's Jingle Jangle Comics from 1942 to 1949. This untitled episode is from issue #6, December 1943.
A few selected panels to whet your appetite for the full tale below:
"Taxi Cabbage"...I love that!
That's one smokin' moon!
Look at the cartoony faces on the trees
and that cute little hat on the sun.
Pie-Face gets kicked out of the taxi cabbage and finds himself
in a cave full of witches, bats and spiders...
George Carlson uses the panel borders to enhance
the creepy mood of this spooky panel of fly-by-night witches...
The page below is a great example of
George Carlson's beautiful panel and page layouts.
The cropped panels lose the visual magic and impact of the full-page,
so make sure you check out the big hi-res scans below
if you wanna see what happens next...
Click on any thumbnail to open a BIG high-resolution comic page scan
Click on the thumbnails for BIG hi-res comic book scans
Truly a feast for the imagination!
This entire issue #6 is available for download
...but make sure you follow the instructions at
the bottom of this>> Cookie Comics << post
to avoid frustration.
At The Golden Age Comics Downloads website, you'll find tons of scans of obscure old public domain comic books to download in .cbr and .cbz formats. If you don't know how to view a .cbr or.cbz file, don't worry - it's easy. Read this informative article on digital comic book formats:
For more about George Carlson and his trippy tales, see:
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2 comments:
Nice. George Carlson's Jingle Jangle Comics are some of my favorites. I found out about him a few years ago after reading the Smithsonian Book of Comic Book Comics. Since then, I've been a Jingle Jangle Comics collector. I read somewhere awhile ago that someone was planning on publishing a George Carlson collection, but I haven't heard anything more about it.
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