[Andrew999]

Who knew there was a Barbara Cartland comic strip? Has anyone here actually read it and survived?

http://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2021/02/14/dear-heart-romance-comic-strips/

The art on Desert Love looks breath-taking

The Heart of Juliet Jones looks intriguing - nice lines. I'd like to see more of that sometime (after I've finished reading all those Nightmares, it might be just what I'll need)

[paw broon]

No, I haven't read the Cartland strip. Didn't know it existed and I'm not sure I could read it even if I could find it. I sometimes indulge in a romance strip but it tends to be one of the old British pocket libraries, e.g. Confessions library, Love Story pl or True Life Library, some of which we have on CB+.
I've always liked the look of Stan Drake's work, and Leonard Starr for that matter and if you can find some of the stories done by either, they are very nice to look at. The Kelly Green graphic novels are well worth a read.
India's Spectrum comics had a reprint of The Heart of Juliet Jones.

[profh0011]

Stan Drake was the only artist in the newspaper my Dad ever used to compliment.

Stan Drake was the guy Neal Adams always wanted to be, but was NEVER GOOD ENOUGH.  No S***.

When dozens of comics artists are trying to be Neal Adams, they're really trying to be Stan Drake, they just don't know it.





I have the first couple JULIET JONES reprint collections.  It was a bit of a shock to find out that when the series started, Eve was NOT very nice.  But she got better as she went.

Drake once quipped... "I married Eve Jones."  Apparently, that's what his wife looked like.


I hadn't thought about this in the longest while... but, I suppose, one could almost look at "THE BIG SLEEP" as the "JULIET JONES" series, gone TERRIBLY, TERRIBLY wrong.   



I have the KELLY GREEN books.  I understand there would have been more, but there was some kind of insurmountable distribution problem that cropped up.  I remember at the time, having great difficulty getting my hands on the 4th one.

[paw broon]

See, I thought that we couldn't get the last 2 Kelly green issues here in the UK because we were in the UK but it seems as you say, there was an insurmountable distribution problem.  I have them now.

[profh0011]

I admit, it's been an awful long time, and even when it happened, i didn't know the details.  But what I recall was, the first 2 or 3 books either turned up in my comics shop, or, I ordered them thru the Diamond catalog (although I suspect I didn't start using "Previews" until years later), BUT, I'm pretty sure, I had to order the last 1 or 2 thru BUD PLANT's mail-order catalog.



Turned out, many years later, when it came to BOOKS (as opposed to regular comics), it's usually MUCH cheaper to order from anywhere other than Diamond's Previews catalog.  They love ripping people off for the "special" items!

[The Australian Panther]

Juliet Jones was in papers when I was reading them for the comics. I was too young to be interested in Romance but I read the strip for the art. Don't remember any of the stories, but I sure remember Stan Drake.
Comic Vine has Kelly Green as from Classic Comics Press. But it was also printed in
English by Darguad in both English and French.
Can you guys help me here? There was also a strip by either Drake or Leonard Starr, or someone as good - I know, I know! - about a female who was something like Al Capp's Moonbeam McSwine Character. It was very cheesecake. Don't think it lasted long.

Also nobody has mentioned Brenda Starr. There was also a Brenda Starr movie featuring James Bond himself, Timothy Dalton as the love interest.
Here is the movie
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Brenda+starr+movie++
Should have been a bigger hit.
and as a bonus here is the 1945 serial. Bit messy upload. in 3 parts. I think the end is the radio show.
Brenda Starr Reporter (1945) part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llIJFssray4
Cheers!         

[crashryan]

I believe you're thinking of Long Sam. Splendid art by Bob Lubbers. Written at first by Elliot Caplin (Al Capp's brother) and eventually by Lubbers himself. There's a brief description in Lubbers' Lambiek entry but images are floating around on the Web.

https://www.lambiek.net/artists/l/lubbers_bob.htm

[crashryan]

When I was in high school I became interested in On Stage because of Leonard Starr's artwork. I couldn't follow the story because we only bought a Seattle newspaper on Sunday. That's also why I didn't see Juliet Jones...she was in the other paper. Later when I was in college my brother sent me clips of Apartment 3G, another good-art strip (Alex Kotzky). The stories were okay but I didn't become very involved. Just looked at the pictures. It wasn't until much later that I met Juliet. I had no idea how good (and influential) Stan Drake had been until fan pubs began reprinting the strip. I bought the On Stage reprint books and genuinely enjoyed Starr's writing. The Juliet Jones books less so. I preferred the adventure element Starr mixed into his romances. Brenda Starr I could never get into because I hated the artwork.

By the way, our main paper was a medium-sized-city daily (no Sundays) with dull second-tier strips. The only one I remember was The Jackson Twins, because I thought the heroines, twin high school girls, were really cute. None of the stories stuck with me.

[The Australian Panther]

I believe you're thinking of Long Sam. Splendid art by Bob Lubbers.

Long Sam it is. I would love to get hold of that.
I have been having a quick look and I see that Bob Lubbers did Tarzan briefly after Hogarth.
The French publisher SOLEIL have a hardbound 10 volume set, TARZAN lntegrale which features Hogarth, Lubbers, Hal Foster and also Manning.  

Cheers!

[Andrew999]

Yep - they do look cute:

https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/comic-strip-art/dick-brooks-the-jackson-twins-sunday-comic-strip-original-art-dated-12-3-67-mcnaught-syndicate-inc-/a/121147-12721.s

We should start a thread on twins. If 1-in-88 people are a twin, there should be a sizeable population of superhero/costumed hero twins - can anyone name one? (Sorry, Panther - I know this kind of question sends your brain into overdrive :>)

[Andrew999]

I never knew there was a Brenda Starr movie - with a young Brooke Shields too - OMG!

There goes my free time tonight!