More Comic Strips You Have Never Read
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Well, naturally you’ve read Barney Google and Snuffy Smith by John Rose, but odds are against you having read Billy DeBeck’s Bunky topper strip to Barney Google unless, like me, you were enjoying it in the 1930s.
John and Sarah bring Bunky back after a long funny papers absence to be Li’l Sparky‘s jockey in this week’s comics. What you may not know is that Bunky is an experienced jockey as shown in a 1935 sequence.
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Know what I miss on the comics pages? A western themed comic strip.
I recently came across Buffalo Gals by Bob Rohan, which reminded me that I miss Latigo and Tumbleweeds.
In this interview Bob describes his comic strip:
Buffalo Gals is a change from today’s “political correct” cartoons. It takes place in the old west before any of that nonsense was brought to light and allowed. It is not editorial in its humour. It is meant to give someone a laugh in their stress-filled day. No hidden messages in the gags
Not mentioned is the occasional risqué gags.
Buffalo Gals appears regularly in The Tombstone Epitaph and in Waves Magazine of Galveston, and also in the monthly chili recipe “newspaper” The Goat Gap Gazette.
A gallery of Buffalo Gals can be read by scrolling through Bob’s Facebook page.
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Speaking of Westerns, back in The Silver Age of Comic Books there was a cult favorite Western called Bat Lash. It was drawn by Nick Cardy who spent the 1960s on DC Comics covers and insides on a wide variety of genres. But it is not Old West Action rather Jungle Adventures where we find Cardy today, or yesterday since it is the Tarzan reruns that have reached the Nick Cardy months.
Monday’s Tarzan at GoComics starts a new adventure that originally appeared on May 22, 1950. Carddy had been drawing the strip since February 13, 1950 as a ghost artist, finishing up the old story. With this new story Cardy finally started signing the strip. Unfortunately that would only last for two months, until July 22, 1950, when Bob Lubbers took on the art chores for Tarzan. So the Cardy signed strips ought to go until January 11, 2025 in this current GoComics run.
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