In general, you just can't trust a guy with horns

From Prize Comics number 49

Sometimes you just want to unwind with the funnies

Here are a couple from Tim Rickard's Brewster Rockit.

Bored?

Why not brew yourself a nice cup of tea and watch some MippyvilleTV? That's what I've been doing.

When it was just a succubus, a tree fairy and a reconstituted cyborg vampire with an enormous

...all fighting off an alien invasion, that was one thing...



but jumping into an entirely different strip, that's just weird.

Wolverton's Moosler

The earthbound Spacehawk stories were never Wolverton's best work but this one does offer an enjoyable take on WWII propaganda.









Target vol. 2 #4

Bill Benulis -- another famous artist you've never heard of

Bill Benulis had a brief but outstanding career before trading in his pens for the steady pay check of a postman. Enjoy.*










* The cover is by Maurice Whitman, not Benulis, but how could I possibly leave it out?

More Kubert -- "Love Came Second"

When Simon and Kirby launched Young Romance in 1947, they started a genre that rivalled the Golden Age of superheroes in popularity. It doesn't get much attention now but its impact was huge and it remained a major genre for almost thirty years.

If you've never read a romance comic, you could do worse than this example from St. John's Hollywood Confessions. The story is typical of the genre and the art is typical Kubert, which is to say, very good indeed.