Luisa Felix Presents *CANDY BLONDELL*

A Star is Blonde.

In Hollywood:Candy Blondell

makes her stunning debut.

*CANDY BLONDELL*

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"CANDY BLONDELL" is a Nostalgia comic-strip about

the Retro old Golden Hollywood of the Past.

Candy Blondell is a waitress who became the

biggest star this imaginary Hollywood ever saw.

She is the Prototype who represents all Hollywood blondes.

 Created on August 15, 1986,

 she was inspired by photographs

I'd seen of actress JEAN HARLOW's face.

Painted white hair and very luminous.

Totally fake, yet attracting attention.

She started out in Silent-Films as an innocent heroine,

but became a favorite 1920's Flapper!

I figured that if I made my CANDY a flashy blonde,

 that she would attract attention too. I also felt

something was needed to compete against BETTY BOOP.

 Betty is thought of as the only female in cartoons of

importance. No one has ever competed against her

except CANDY BLONDELL. I asked myself,

"Why should Betty Boop be the only one in the game?

Candy was created specifically to be Boop's competition.

All movie stars change and develop/improve.

When Candy started out as a Silent-Film star, she used her

own natural curly hair and round eyebrows. This was the 1920's.

When Candy started out as a 1930's Talkies star,

she had a forced hair-do and pointed drawn eyebrows.

These are the two faces by which she is known by.

Below DOCILE POMPUS can be seen.

He is Candy's desperate and sneaky Hollywood Agent.

 She is always in a conflict with him.

See...Candy Blondell's role in "OBSESSION"

Buddy Dice and Candy Blondell's Publicity Photo.

See...Candy Blondell in "Bury Me Not".

 Some of her other roles include:

 The Ax Murderess "LIZZIE BORDEN",

 the Gun Moll in "Bonnie and Clyde" and as,

murder victim Dot King in "Broken Butterfly".

Other Co-stars Include:

Silent-Film queen,TIARA VAMP.

This is Candy Blondell's rival.
They are always fighting over everything.

REEF VALENTINE,
The man CANDY loves but cannot get.


Jut Nozzle drinks coffee. A tough guy with orange hair.

And so many more...

I tried to get my "CANDY BLONDELL" animated

 cartoon on television.

Someday I will find the opportunity to have her film seen.

 It is only a matter of time before 

an audience does see her moving on the screen.

Also, we're working on my hand-drawn lettering

 to put together as a FONT for "CANDY BLONDELL's"
talk-Balloon dialogue in comic-strips. This new FONT
will speed things up so I can do more stories faster.

Cartoonist Luisa Felix does CHARLIE CHAPLIN.

Retro-Cartoonist Luisa Felix at MOCCA, year 2009.

What am I doing now?
Preparing for New York's MOCCA.
I am stapling booklets together to present to the audience.
"BURY ME NOT" is one of them. "OBSESSION" the other.

WHAT REALLY GETS ME ANGRY?
Cartoonists who quit their comic-strip without
thinking about their audiences feelings and needs!
I am not a quitter. Ever!



Is it hot in here..or is it Candy?
I think I've fallen for her. No doubt there's plenty
of other star-struck lugs below to break my fall.
Oh, Please say you'll plan a return engagement.
We here at CCU miss you already.
You can't see me but I'm blushing.

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Benson Comics

You've seen the whole

One Artist, One Comic thing. Right?

Pfff! Child's play.

Dig this...Two Guys, One Comic.

Benson Comics

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Bio: Peter Durston and Tristram Baumber

have been doing Benson Comics for as long as they remember,

 but that's only because they have done terrible, terrible things

to their minds that mean they can't remember their childhoods.

The strips come from a love of classic comic strips 

and a passion for car maintenance,

 although the car maintenance side of it

 has never made it into the strips. Still waiting for the right time!

Each strip is constructed by one artist drawing and writing a frame

before handing it over to the other
 and then repeating until finished,

 resulting in complete insanity and randomness.

We think you'll love the character of Benson

and his crazy cast of friends just as much as we do

(and we love him a lot because he looks us in the eye,

 and we're suckers for that)!

Benson History Month:

 All through March, Benson turns his skewed eye to

 the events that made today the day we're experiencing today

- for Benson History Month!

 From Ancient Rome to the Industrial Revolution and beyond,

 no one is safe from the razor blade wit and wooden club rhetoric

of Benson P. Bensonheimer III, famed historian.

So come and enjoy the fun and forensic archeology at

 bensoncomics.com!

Double crazy. Twice as fun.

Thank You, Thank You for sharing this twofold toon.

Please guys please, come back a second time

and bring more phrases like "wooden club rhetoric".

I get it...it just sounds so cool.

Tweet with Benson too: http://twitter.com/bensoncomics

Contact them at:  peter.durston@gmail.com

tristram.baumber@gmail.com

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United Planet...Broken Legion

Steverino here to escort you into the future.

It's a frightening look at Earth

in the year 2994.

  

The Legion of Super-Heroes

DC Comics: NO 1, Nov, 1989

plot & pencils:Keith Giffen  diaologue:Tom & Mary Bierbaum

co-plot/inker:Al Gordon  letterer:Todd Klein  colorist:Tom McCraw

"Five Years Later"

It's dark. It's bleek. It's not much fun...and not a bad first story.
An attempt to revamp a "Team" title that was doing fine until
 the "Crisis on Infinite Earths" made it necessary 
to alter the status quo.
 Five years older and with the United Planets
about to collapse the LSH has been forced to disband.
Reep Daggle, aka Chameleon 'Boy'
wants to put the team back together.

That's the meat of it. It is confusing. There are no real costumes,
logos or super names. Just a brooding Rokk (Cosmic 'Boy') Krinn
without his powers (Due to a battle.The reader of this first
issue should fill in the blanks) and his pregnant wife Lydda.
He wants her "off planet". She won't go without him. Yawn.
Chem makes his pitch.


There is this cool retro look back.


And three pages of this stuff.

UGHH!

The story was more difficult than it had to be but 

Giffen and Gordon were setting the drama and feel for this

go 'round of the LSH. Cool blue bots, Polar Boy, A field

commander "Digby" (with a sweet scar) and one armed

"Loomis" round out the middle of this book.

With that in mind, it really wasn't a 

bad way to start. We, the reader are left to fill holes,

 but I still wondered what happens next.

Just good art and a rigid nine panel per page grid don't help.

 I'll look past that and see how the series progresses.

  This may be the best looking page in the comic.


I am glad I pulled this out.
 Now I've just gotta find "Emerald Dawn".

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Bristow Art

Stand Back Folks. 

It's "Mad" Bristow Art.

Bristow

Hello everybody… welcome to my first blog!

My name is Bristow, and I am the creator, artist and writer

of my own comic strip – “Mad Mouse”.

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I’m a little uneasy with self-promotion,

but I doubt anyone else would have nice things

to say about me, so here I go.

“Mad Mouse” is a life-long (so far) culmination of what I’ve
 ingested from the comics world. As a boy, I loved
magazines like MAD and Zapped. I was an avid reader of
the newspaper funnies, paperback compilations of B.C. and
 the Wizard Of Id, Archie and Richie Rich comic books.
To me, Lil’ Abner was serious literature and there was
 much more to learn about life from
Zippy The Pinhead than from the Brady Bunch.

 I was never certain that a career drawing comics was for me.
I was a good enough artist, just had no vision for it as a young man.
 I hid behind the pen and paper, really.
The role of class-clown was appropriate - I just preferred
 to remain anonymous and let funny drawings tell all my jokes.
 I was the kid who would draw a cartoon of you doing something silly,
 add a little social commentary, then pin it on the bulletin board
 before class. It was generally accepted as good natured humor…
 okay, most of the time. Boobies on my sister’s paper dolls and
 cartoons of hot dog like people shouting obscenities on
the pages of our Church Hymnals,
 would soon put me on the blacklist. I loved it.

Growing up in Southern Indiana was not conducive
for an aspiring satirical cartoonist. Nobody there,
who was actually looking to hire an artist, shared my love for
 R. Crumb, Bill Griffith or Harvey Kurtzman.
 Commercial Art school was only good for a year and
 creative writing courses at the local college were good for even less.
 So I did what any other intelligent person would do…
I moved to Chicago to make it big as a comedic actor.

Even though drawing took up very little of my time during the

next several years, I believe it was the experiences of

everyday life as a young man, on my own, in the big city

that were forming the foundations for “Mad Mouse”.

I wasn’t aware of that part yet, but when I did begin to sketch again,

 I found that I had not lost my ability to satirize

using two little farm creatures as my spokespigs.

Unfortunately, these two little swine

never made it out of my drawing books.

By the time I had landed-in, burned-out-on, and escaped-from

 Los Angeles, I had found a new desire to create comics

and was working on a character based on a drummer

friend of mine who played under the moniker, “Robnoxious”.

 A couple of these were used in Modern Drummer Magazine

 as advertisements… but nothing else came of it.

Working on these strips, however, was when I really began

 to sink my teeth into the storytelling aspect of cartooning.

 Although I had a lot to learn, I was letting my guard down and

allowing the cartoons to do my talking... albeit, a little bizarre.

Now was the point in the blog where I was going to introduce

how “Mad Mouse” came about, but I thought I would share

 with you a few other –unrelated- works first.

 During my last year living in California, so unsure of which direction

 to take my art in, I took on a tattoo shop apprenticeship.

It was a very interesting life experience. I had the opportunity

 to create some cool flash art and study an entirely different genre,

 but the bloody skin thing…

I also have been known to pencil sketch from time to time,

 but mostly, I find it unsatisfying.

Okay kids… you’ve waited long enough!

Let’s talk about the mouse. Earlier in the blog,

 there were a couple of the strips showing the type of

 situations Mad Mouse regularly finds himself in.

 As the comic has developed, so have the characters

 and storylines, and some episodes are now running for

three to four weeks at a time… and that’s daily!

As you can see, there isn’t space to run the entire story,

 but the first and last strips from that Vegas adventure should

give you an idea of how the trip went for Mad

 and his best pal Trouble Mouse.

I mean, check out how Valentine’s Day ended-up for this poor guy!

“Mad Mouse” really does have it all – if you have a distorted
view of the ways of real life like I do.

Where else would you find the life and times adventures of
a divorced, middle-aged, underachieving,
alcohol and nicotine addicted, human-like rodent
who just can’t seem to get things right despite
 his desperate search for the meaning of it all?
I mentioned his troublesome best friend,
but wait until you meet his teenage, lesbian, daughter
who just moved into his tiny apartment
“just until her band makes it”.
 Or his beautiful, successful girlfriend who is determined
to help him change his ways. And what creature of such
 questionable values would be complete without a conscious…
 in this case that would be Jesus Mouse,
 the omni-present meddling voice of reason.
It’s bound to get interesting.

Well folks, there you have it… for now anyway.
 You can read (and even subscribe) daily to “Mad Mouse”
on Go Comics. There is a site there called Sherpa,
 especially for up and coming cartoon strips and their creators
 looking for syndication, and/or exposure. I am seeking both!
Go to: http://www.comicssherpa.com/ and click on “Mad Mouse”
– either the thumbnail, if a new strip has been uploaded that day,
 or find the title under “See All Comics”.
 Feel free to comment on the strip as well. It’s free to subscribe
 and the numbers could only help in the development of my strip.
Comic books are in the future plans for “Mad Mouse”
 with edition #1 currently being drawn.

I’d like to thank Comic Creators United for
 posting my work on their blog this week.
 They’ve been great and always have something fresh
and very cool to look at. Thanks guys!

If you would like to contact me regarding
“Mad Mouse” you can do so through my artist email:
madbristowart@yahoo.com

A big thanks goes out to you Bristow.
As "Mad Mouse" continues to break new ground,
 CCU can say "we got you at the start".
We're gonna miss that crazy mouse.
 Come back and shake things up again soon.
 We'll follow you to the cheese
 as long as you tell us how to steal it.
 
Mad Mouse can also be found HERE.

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