Comments on: Will Elder does Virgil Finlay

By: kiptw

kiptw — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:00:00 +0000

And it’s for a story by Doodles Weaver, no less!

By: YA

YA — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:06:00 +0000

What kind of pervert this alien is

By: Halloween_Jack

Halloween_Jack — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 04:53:00 +0000

I just love how he tosses in a gyroscope for the hell of it, or all the stuff tumbling out of a locket that couldn’t possibly hold most of it. Oh, and “GUM”. Heh.

By: mikei

mikei — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 02:08:00 +0000

Ah, two great illustrators. I love all the great old EC artists, Elder’s definitely one of the best, and used to buy up every old Sci-Fi pulp I could find at the local used book store that had Finlay’s illustrations in them. I liked them better than most of the (non-P.K. Dick) stories.

By: gvtv

gvtv — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:22:00 +0000

and now you can get some great Chicken Fat products here!
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Or become a fan of Will’s opn FB here
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By: sean

sean — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:08:00 +0000

Will Elder is the only cartoonist (well, maybe Crumb on occasion) that could make me laugh out loud at a particular drawring. Not the joke, or the story it was for- they were usually “chicken fat” toss-ins of his own devising. The sheer ridiculousness of what was going on in the illustration is what did it. I remember a hayseed with a big grin cheerily hammering away at something with abandon, all his fingers covered in band-aids. Or the little gangster in old lady drag pushing the enormous gangster in a baby carriage. Or the border illustration he did for MAD magazine #29- a dozen good laughs there. Plus no one could duplicate a cartoonist’s style like Villy Elder. It’s a shame he (and Harvey Kurtzman) spent so many years on “Little Annie Fannie”.

By: dioptase

dioptase — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:06:00 +0000

Look out! He’s got a glass cutter!