Askance
05-03-2010, 12:13 AM
I'm clearly regressing to my teenage comic-reading days of the mid- to late-60s. For some reason my brain has thrown up single-frame memories of two unlikely-sounding comics that it thinks I read back in those days:
- a comic book treatment of Woody Allen's stand-up material of that era. I distinctly recall a frame of his bit about his family being too poor to buy him a dog, so they get him an ant and just tell him it's a dog ("I was a dumb kid ..."). Of course, the neighbourhood bully steps on his dog.
- a comic-book equivalent of the Monkees, that is a manufactured band. I remember almost nothing about them except there were two girls and 2 or 3 boys in the band. The two fragments from this book/these books I recall are:
1/ one of the guys gets suddenly rich (inheritance or lottery I guess), and one of the girls decides to inveigle him into marrying her to get her hands on the money ("Charactername becomes a marriage-minded mantrap!"). Despite warnings from all and sundry he goes ahead, but is saved when the she baulks at the part of the marital oath that says "for richer or for poorer" - she realises she only loves him for richer, and her hippy honesty kicks in.
2/ a musical, none of which I remember except that the final number was called "I'm Sure the South Will Rise Again". I guess my memory of this has been triggered by some of the recent ACW revisionist threads here lately.
- a comic book treatment of Woody Allen's stand-up material of that era. I distinctly recall a frame of his bit about his family being too poor to buy him a dog, so they get him an ant and just tell him it's a dog ("I was a dumb kid ..."). Of course, the neighbourhood bully steps on his dog.
- a comic-book equivalent of the Monkees, that is a manufactured band. I remember almost nothing about them except there were two girls and 2 or 3 boys in the band. The two fragments from this book/these books I recall are:
1/ one of the guys gets suddenly rich (inheritance or lottery I guess), and one of the girls decides to inveigle him into marrying her to get her hands on the money ("Charactername becomes a marriage-minded mantrap!"). Despite warnings from all and sundry he goes ahead, but is saved when the she baulks at the part of the marital oath that says "for richer or for poorer" - she realises she only loves him for richer, and her hippy honesty kicks in.
2/ a musical, none of which I remember except that the final number was called "I'm Sure the South Will Rise Again". I guess my memory of this has been triggered by some of the recent ACW revisionist threads here lately.