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white river junction gory daze parade please show up at the main street museum at 9pm on saturday october 30th it s at 58 bridge street right by these wooden sculptures charming cartoonists no doubt will be covered in halloween frippery to download this article please click here jen vaughn 3 comments posted in historic super heroes tagged betsey swardlick gory daze halloween main street museum parades rutland parade rutland vermont super heroes tom fagan white river junction halloween horrors pre code reprints rule briefer s frankenstein from idw posted on 10 25 2010 by srbissette 1 comment we re in an age of amazing reprint volumes resurrecting all genres of comics history but this is the last week in october so it s time to carve out some space for two of the latest pre code horror comicbook collections and who better to begin with than frankenstein _______________________________________ comics archivist scholar historian collector editor craig yoe has been behind some of the most invigorating of the new collections of ancient work including george herriman s krazy ignatz tiger tea the golden collection of klassic krazy kool kids komics felix the cat the great comic book tails dan decarlo s jetta the art of ditko and two recently reviewed here on the schulz library blog boody the bizarre comics of boody rogers and the complete milt gross comics books and life story true to his love of vintage comics creators who embrace both the bizarre and the bawdy yoe s 2010 halloween seasonal release this month offers a definitive collection of the one pre code horror comic that schizophrenically shifted between the hilarious and the horrific dick briefer s frankenstein as yoe details in this new volume s excellent and heavily illustrated introduction briefer 1915 1980 attended classes in the late 1930s under robert brackman at new york city s famed art students league before starting his comicbook career laboring in the will eisner jerry iger sweatshop among briefer s earliest creations were an adaptation of victor hugo s the hunchback of notre dame for jumbo comics yoe offers a reproduction of the first installment s splash page space heroes rex dexter for mystery men comics and crash parker planet comics the pirate prince for silver streak and daredevil yankee longago boy comics biff bannon speed comics and superheroes like dynamo real american 1 yep that was his name target and the targeteers and the human top among others like many golden age creators briefer was incredibly prolific at the meager page rates available the only way to keep a roof overhead and food on the table was to grind out pages as quickly as possible and worked under a variety of nom de plumes as well as his own name among the pseudonymous strips some comics scholars attribute to briefer were the adventures of communist hero pinky rankin for the daily worker a stint that may or may not have been briefer s work and may or may not have landed briefer on mccarthy era blacklists briefer s claim to fame however was and remains his innovative horror comic series the new adventures of frankenstein which debuted in prize comics 7 cover dated december 1940 meaning it hit the racks in the fall of that year briefer did everything script lettering pencils inks on this new feature for the crestwood publishing company aka feature publication and prize comics which may have been the first contemporary spin on mary shelley s venerable 1818 source novel the catalyst for briefer s resurrection of shelley s immortal monster was arguably the 1939 universal pictures re release of the two feature films that launched their beloved 1930s horror cycle tod browning s dracula 1930 and james whale s frankenstein 1931 universal had abandoned the genre by the mid 1930s due in part to the loss of the entire british and british colonies market where horror films were proving less and less marketable since the british censors had instituted the dreaded h certificate by the end of the decade universal s fortunes had dwindled and the surprise success of a regional midnight movie showing of the dracula frankenstein double feature prompted universal to roll the double bill out nationally and to rekindle their horror line with the production of an all new frankenstein entry rowland v lee s son of frankenstein 1939 it was a smash hit saving universal s fortunes and kicking off a whole new horror movie cycle that lasted into the mid 1940s ending with universal s parody abbott costello meet frankenstein 1948 national periodicals aka dc comics featured an unusual photo roman aka photo fumetti adaptation of son of frankenstein in the debut issue of movie comics that same year for more and to read the complete eight page son of frankenstein comic story click this link for the first of four installments at myrant whether briefer was directly or indirectly inspired to launch his own frankenstein comic series by the revival of the universal monster movie series and or the movie comics adaptation who can say the fact is those were the most direct precursors to briefer s series which took the public s conflation of the creator frankenstein and his monster frankenstein s monster as a given the monster was frankenstein in name and ran with it briefer took the public s identification of the monster with its creator one step further signing the original installments by frank n stein i had a hard time convincing the publisher that shelley s frankenstein was in public domain briefer told interviewer howard leroy davis but it was and briefer thrust the monster into a new life with prize comics 7 s revisionist take on the monster s birth beginning as an apparent gothic briefer depicted dr victor frankenstein s construction of the monster from the dead bodies of scores of men in an efficient single page by page three the monster was on the loose and by page five one fine day at the zoo 1939 readers were begin to fathom that this resurrection had somehow taken place in then modern day america briefer had his monster escaping the zoo on an elephant terrorizing the big apple climbing the statue of liberty and sparing the life of his creator as an act of revenge i spared you to live to live in misery also to watch and see the suffering and grief that i your creation will cause the human race and so it began briefer s original series was indeed a straight horror adventure comic the first of its kind in american comics history seven to eight years before the first horror anthology comics surfaced with avon s 1947 one shot eerie 1 and american comic group s long lasting periodical adventures into the unknown which debuted in 1948 craig yoe offers the first three installments of briefer s initial series pp 21 44 of the collection which includes the monster s one on one urban battle with a crocodile man whetting one s appetite for a complete reprint collection of the entire briefer original series briefer s revamp of the monster s design emulated some aspects of universal makeup genius jack pierce s original look for actor boris karloff s movie incarnation of the monster the squared off skull the ragged sutures across the forehead the cadaverous pallor and sunken cheeks but briefer skirted any legal claims universal might have made by traumatically rearranging the monster s facial features squashing the flattened nose directly beneath the knobby brows and between the outsized eyes and dispensing with the electrode bolts protruding from the neck briefer s monster was indeed hideous and briefer cranked out a tsunami of terror tales featuring the creature through to the april 1945 issue of prize comics 52 and the launch of frankenstein in his own title that same year prize comics 53 s frankenstein and the beanstalk was the last of the fantasy horror briefer frankensteins with a new original story in frankenstein 1 frankenstein s creation reprinted complete in the yoe collection pp 45 59 and prize comics 53 s pour out your heart briefer redirected his ongoing feature transforming it into an adsurdist kid friendly horror comedy comic by this point briefer s distinctively fluid brushwork had become absolutely breezy and more expressive than ever and the complete change in tempo temper and tone suited his brushline it was a new lease on life for briefer and his beloved monster whose nose slid progressively further up into his browline within the pages of frankenstein 1 alone as demonstrated in this collection s generous reprint of no less than three stories from that historic first issue by 1947 briefer was writing and drawing frankenstein now labeled the merry monster for prize comics and for the character s solo series editor yoe offers two other briefer comedic frankenstein stories from this period blooperman from frankenstein 8 july august 1947 included herein due to its pointed satire on the most popular four color superhero of them all and in case you ve any doubt briefer s satiric byline for the story by seagull shoestring puts paid to that and the beguiling spirit parody the girl with the bewitching eyes from frankenstein 15 september october 1948 well i d tag it as an eisner parody if only for its femme fatale zona but the whole of briefer s approach to this one frankenstein tale smacks of eisner s iconic 1940s body of work briefer s frankenstein shifted gears again with the hardcore horror comics boom of the early 1950s and yoe offers a quartet of frankenstein tales from briefer s return to horror amid the pre code horror swamp tomb of the living dead frankenstein 20 august september 1952 friendly enemies from 24 april may 1953 the she monster 28 january 1954 and the tree of death 31 june july 1954 are indeed representative of the swansong years of briefer s series these aren t the stories i d have selected from this period in briefer s horror series there are better ones to my mind but they re interesting enough horror tales sparked with inventive imagery and bits of business sadly they lack the energy of briefer s earlier stories even the brushwork denotes his exhaustion with the 14 year run though ever the pro briefer doesn t short shrift the reader the storytelling is crisp clear and the narratives provide enough twists to keep even the most jaded genre reader s interest with dick briefer s frankenstein archivist editor packager craig yoe continues to provide a service to the comics community while this tome is as stylishly produced as all yoe s books if anything the cool die cutting of frankenstein s eyes lends this volume an appropriately children s storybook flavor yoe has finally addressed the one complaint i have with too many of such compilations craig cites the original publication source date and year of publication on the first page of every story kudos craig and here s hoping this practice becomes standard operating procedure for all future collections per usual the color reproduction from the original comics retains the flavor of the pre code four color showcases and the restoration work on the stories themselves is exquisite while the briefer frankenstein comic stories have periodically been reprinted in the years since briefer s death including reprints in dr frankenstein s house of 3d 1992 the cracked monster magazines cracked monster party 1988 and monsters attack 1989 90 and a recent black and white paperback reprint volume entitled the monster of frankenstein 2006 this current collection eclipses them all handily while offering the most comprehensive overview of briefer s life work and the arc of the frankenstein comics stories briefer single handedly created yoe spices the stew with a generous helping of briefer artwork from his other frankenstein efforts including his ill fated comic strip proposal s stages of work roughs pencils inks preserved from briefer s process and an eye popping array of cover reconstructions briefer painted and drew for fans later in his life dick briefer s frankenstein is the ideal halloween christmas gift for any monster lovin comics reader and establishes a welcome new threshold for the entire yoe idw line of reprint volumes this is highly recommended reading and as with all the yoe collections a grand entertainment from cover to cover stephen r bissette mountains of madness vt 1 comment posted in historic new book tagged craig yoe dick briefer dick briefer s frankenstein frankenstein pre code horror comics survey 1 comic strip essays andy warner on lyonel feininger s the kin der kids wee willie winkie s world posted on 10 24 2010 by srbissette 1 comment note this is the second in a series of essays written by the current class of 2012 for survey of the drawn story i ccs s comics history class they are posted here in approximate chronological order of when their chosen subjects comic strips were either first published or in their heyday these were class assignments and should be enjoyed in that context these are not necessarily indicative of the work the individual artists writers would do in paid professional venues this is work assigned in class with a tight deadline completed while juggling many other class assignments that said it is all of high caliber or we would not be sharing it with you here enjoy unless otherwise noted any image captions or comments in brackets like this were added by the survey i instructor stephen bissette to enhance this public post as were the author info and further reading notes after the essay and author s footnotes all illustrations in this particular post were added by the instructor ________________________________________________ lyonel feininger lost expressionist master of the sunday comics page by andy warner ccs class of 2012 the brightest stars shine briefest the light of lyonel feininger s brilliant comics may have winked out due to a contractual dispute but still now over a century after they were produced they seem too wonderful too weird to have existed even for the single year he was active in the medium although feininger made a name for himself in painting and printmaking he designed the cover for the bauhaus 1919 manifesto was associated with several expressionist groups in germany and even had the distinction of being labeled degenerate artist by the third reich the tall gangly german american artist s cartoon output was limited to two strips he created in 1906 for the chicago sunday tribune the kin der kids and wee willie winkie s world even a cursory glance at these large format sunday pages is a visceral experience feininger was making comics like no one else in his era before egon schiele met gustav klimt just as picasso and braque were developing what would become cubism feininger s comics exploded in glorious color from the pages of the tribune his figures move at odd angles all limbs hands and caricatured faces the environment while expressly the focus of wee willie s world has an incredible vitality in both strips waves crash and smash lightning tears jagged lines through the sky 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