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yesterday s papers archive skip to main skip to sidebar yesterday s papers archive monday december 5 2011 dream of a lobster fiend posted by john adcock at 12 35 pm no comments monday august 24 2009 rio bravo in 1959 right around my birthday a movie was released called rio bravo john wayne was at that time one of those generational hangovers between the thirties generation and the boomers baby faced ricky nelson ozzie and harriet who played a stone cold killer sang a few songs as a sop to the kiddies and the bubble gummers who might be bored by all the craggy faces of the greatest generation i attended with an older brother and his cynical thirteen year old friends one of whom threw a wad of gum at ricky nelson onscreen to a chorus of appreciative teenage boos as sweet and treacley as ricky martin s personality was he did master the double gun twirl which he pulled off with much aplomb elvis had sacrificed his sideburns and ducktail for a respectable army crew cut the previous year in 1958 and radio except for a few talented bands like dion and the belmonts was a bland wasteland of pimply teenage idols who sold millions to adoring tweeny fans walter brennan star of tv s real mccoys and a best selling recording artist on old rivers played stumpy john wayne s cantankerous sidekick bringing some much needed comic relief to an otherwise bleak film of alcoholism and violence like john wayne republican walter brennan would become persona non grata to the hippie left of the oncoming sixties dean martin as well the drunken bugger insulted rock royalty when he ridiculed the rolling stones on his show in 1964 as sidekicks go though brennan was one of the best of a group of comic men that included gabby hayes chill wills andy devine and slim pickens when slim pickens was gutshot in pat garrett and billy the kid and staggered off to a bob dylan dirge knockin on heaven s door was that peckinpah s tribute to the passing of the american sidekick at any rate brennan s voice was unforgettable he was one of the funniest sidekicks in the movie business john wayne teased stumpy unmercifully and he limped through the movie in a permanent state of grumpy bruised hurt feelings dell comics are good comics released a comic book adaptation of the movie illustrated by the prolific alex toth as they did every hollywood film and television show in that period from santiago to quentin durward the artists worked from movie stills provided by the studios and yet i noticed they never seemed to capture likenesses that well dell in keeping to their pledge to parents that their comic magazines contained only clean and wholesome entertainment left the blood out of the following scene in the film it was the dripping blood that alerts the town drunk played by martin that a cowpoke in the rafters has a bead on him the blood was crucial to the film but left out of the adaptation the adaptation was actually quite well scripted in 32 pages little of the plot of the film was left out none of the actors however was portrayed in a very recognizable way the worst were walter brennan who bears no resemblance to the grizzled sidekick and angie dickinson likewise could be they had to make do without a movie still of that actress toth may have been a dud as a caricaturist of celebrities but his impressionistic artwork was up to his usual standards posted by john adcock at 10 19 am 2 comments labels alex toth walter brennan friday march 27 2009 cultural aspects of serial cartoons it may almost be set down as a law of cultural history that the vulgar amusements of today are the highbrow art of tomorrow some cultural aspects of serial cartoons or get a load of those funnies by ignatius g mattingly harper s magazine 1954 posted by john adcock at 12 08 pm no comments labels cultural aspects of serial cartoons older posts home subscribe to posts atom labels alex toth american caricature american comic periodicals american illustrators boys story papers british caricature c e toles cruikshank cultural aspects of serial cartoons dudley watkins french illustrators golden amazon james lindridge john gruelle morland the painter penny dreadfuls punch smokey stover star weekly tyburn tree walter brennan wild boys of london links yesterday s papers blog archive 2011 1 december 1 dec 05 1 dream of a lobster fiend 2009 4 august 1 aug 24 1 march 2 mar 27 1 mar 07 1 february 1 feb 17 1 2008 21 september 5 sep 08 1 sep 04 4 august 3 aug 24 1 aug 23 1 aug 22 1 june 1 jun 15 1 may 1 may 08 1 april 8 apr 28 1 apr 17 1 apr 15 3 apr 03 1 apr 02 1 apr 01 1 march 3 mar 26 1 mar 25 2 about me john adcock cartoonist illustrator storyteller born in nelson b c in may 1950 has contributed to chronicle weirdom and visions fanzines john illustrated ronald and the dragon by lawrie peters in 1975 view my complete profile