It's Opening Day of the Baseball Season and as far as I know "Il Dope" and his thugs have not suspended the season for some reason, so it's time to welcome warmer weather (but not too warm), and some lazy afternoons of the last civilized sport in America. So, I present to you the aptly named Baseball Comics from 1949 by Will Eisner and company. It was only one of two comics produced by Eisner's company, the other was Kewpies which this blog took a gander at yesterday.
To read this issue in its entirety head on over to Davy Crockett's Almanack of Myster, Adventure and the Wild West. You can get there with his handy linkage.
I picked up this reprint gem from the folks at Kitchen Sink some years ago. Rube Rooky is just what you'd expect, but so very well done, that it's okay.
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I picked this up at the time for the art as I have little knowledge or interest in baseball But I enjoyed it, it was a nice change of pace from barbarian and superhero comics and it gave me a wee peek into the average US persons interest in sports. Change this to football ( soccer) and this was more akin to the type of comic strip that appeared in UK comics in the 1960s onwards.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a youth, I barely knew what Soccer was. I never saw a Soccer ball until I was in college. There I met some Soccer players who tried to teach me the game, but I was gassed very quickly. I've respected the athleticism ever since, but I've never gotten used to watching it.
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