You mean, like, her spectacular cleavage? 
“Little Annie Fanny” is an astonishing bit of comic strip history because of Harvey Kurtzmann’s involvement, the quality of the writing, and the fact that every panel was hand-painted. Nobody else devoted that much care and love to a comic strip. The compilations are well worth buying. Kudos to Hefner for funding it for so long.
Annie herself, while charming, is not my dream girl. A walking Kurtzmann satiric joke: eye-popping chest, but skimpy elsewhere. As Louis Armstrong would have said, “All that meat and no potatoes.” In reverse.
- Lois Griffen
- Luanne’s brother’s girlfriend. Drawn to look like a bimbo sexpot but as I recall, she was a pretty competent individual. Haven’t read the strip for years.
I always thought Luanne on King of the Hill was pretty hot!
Another vote for Brandy of Liberty Meadows. I would walk a mile in the snow just to be able to stand barefoot in her shit.
Do you mean the way the “W-B” shield crashed forward in the intro to the cartoon Lumber Jack Rabbit? :eek:
I have to wonder also just what Betty’s mother looked like when she was a teenager. She’s quite a beauty for the mother of a teenage girl… 
No love for Modesty Blaise?
Definitely love the Modesty Blaise strips and novels, and, yes, she’s very attractive, in a kind of “classical statuary” way. Several of the stories, in fact, involve people making statues or paintings with her as the model.
I think the problem, perhaps, here, for this thread, is that she’s a “realistic” paragon, and can’t compete with the “supernormal releasers” such as Daisy Mae Yokum or Holli Would. Modesty Blaise is portrayed a “real.” She’s got scars.
(As for personality, she’s very high on the list. She is really easy to get along with. Just don’t threaten anyone she loves.)
In the “newspaper comic strip mother” category, I think it’s tough to top Jill, from The Pajama Diaries. It’s a running gag in the strip that her husband is always in the mood… which I find completely unsurprising.
What was that comic that ran in Penthouse magazine? The busty, raven-haired lesbian and her busty, blond lesbian assistant?
I thought about her, but I encountered her through the books first.
Except maybe Winsor McCay.
That was “Oh, Wicked Wanda!” She was apparently intended as a direct opposite of Little Annie Fanny. Nothing attractive or appealing about her, as far as I am concerned. :mad:
This is the first I’ve heard about any novels. I know her through the Bangkok Post newspaper, which used to run the strip. There was a huge outcry when they dropped it.
Oh yeah. Thanks!
I just got why the artist’s name is Wally Wood
Kids bought these???
Oh, Wally Wood did stuff that was definitely not for kids. His comic Sally Forth, for instance, was very different from the present-day newspaper strip of the same name!
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Well, physically, she’s beautiful. Her personality is depraved to the nth degree, but her body would cause a Bishop to kick a hole in a stained-glass window. Same for Candyfloss: few of us could survive ten minutes in her company, but, dayum, she’s pretty!
Peter O’Donnell wrote a series of novels about Modesty, and they’re pretty good. A bit formulaic, and a bit purple, but within acceptable limits. They’re generally clever and witty, and quite fairly comparable to the James Bond novels. (Two of the books are actually collections of stories, and these are actually my favorites.)
Well that page was from the original version of MAD. Wallace Wood was a main artist at EC.
He was also later popularly credited with “developing” Power Girl’s trademark, um, visual feature.
To paraphrase Forrest Gump, pretty is as pretty does. :mad: