Re: Fizzboomski the Anarchist and Great Caesar's Ghost!
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Originally Posted by Ymir's blood
Carrie, the story of a young lady and her friends who usually obsessed with jewelry, fast cars, football tickets and the men who can acquire them.
You know, I can't approve of how she's using poor Roscoe for his stunning gas gobbler, but when she popped her new Boria Goneson bob on the curly haired sheik presiding over the soda fountain, I was glad he took her side against those means friends of hers. I can't help but wonder if her poor treatment of Roscoe is a cycle of abuse thing.
Re: Fizzboomski the Anarchist and Great Caesar's Ghost!
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Originally Posted by livius drusus
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Originally Posted by Ymir's blood
Carrie, the story of a young lady and her friends who usually obsessed with jewelry, fast cars, football tickets and the men who can acquire them.
You know, I can't approve of how she's using poor Roscoe for his stunning gas gobbler, but when she popped her new Boria Goneson bob on the curly haired sheik presiding over the soda fountain, I was glad he took her side against those means friends of hers. I can't help but wonder if her poor treatment of Roscoe is a cycle of abuse thing.
I found that series strangely compelling, actually. Without knowing anything about the author, it's hard to judge whether it is an attack on the morality of 'flappers' by an outsider or a sly self depreciation by someone in the know? While sometimes the girls get their comeuppance at the end of the strip, it isn't always the case and usually is just a shot of irony rather than the overt moralism of a Greek Chorus cataloging their transgressions.
The characters' actions also seemed more natural than the stereotypically stilted plots and speech generally associated with older comics. Contrast the Magician's Daughter series where every strip has the same plot or the Goops where each strip is just a setup leading to a moral. I suppose what I'm getting at, is that whatever else its merits may or may not be, it demonstrates that people in the past were mostly the same as us, whereas much of older literature etc... tends to fool us with bowdlerized morality and stilted dialog.
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Well, you could either repurpose Get Your War On style, or you could do rough storyboards, and like you say, get a boy to do the tedious part for you later.
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Not really the same, but have you ever read anything by Thorne Smith? His most famous work is the Topper series - there was a series of movies and maybe a TV show. The first movie starred Cary Grant. Smith also wrote the original stories for I Married a Witch and IIRC One Touch of Venus.
His books are likely in the public domain now, though usually out of print. He was rather well read in his day (1930s) though. The reason I recommend his work is that they are set in the Pre-Depression era and usually feature one or more liberated women (based on flappers, usually) that disrupt/improve the life of a man.
You might be able to find some of his stuff online.
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The Library of Congress' website is a navigation monster, but you might check to see if they have anything online there. They do have a lot of good stuff, but it can be hard to find and I am TOO OLD for that right now. (Not as old as those creaky bears or anything, but p. old nonetheless.)
Alternately, once me and my bort were looking for some crazy ancient out of print book, and he eventually managed to get one of the sole remaining copies through interlibrary loan, so that's another option too.
Re: Fizzboomski the Anarchist and Great Caesar's Ghost!
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Originally Posted by Ymir's blood
Not really the same, but have you ever read anything by Thorne Smith? His most famous work is the Topper series - there was a series of movies and maybe a TV show. The first movie starred Cary Grant. Smith also wrote the original stories for I Married a Witch and IIRC One Touch of Venus.
His books are likely in the public domain now, though usually out of print. He was rather well read in his day (1930s) though. The reason I recommend his work is that they are set in the Pre-Depression era and usually feature one or more liberated women (based on flappers, usually) that disrupt/improve the life of a man.
You might be able to find some of his stuff online.
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I've read some of Mom and Pop over time such publications such as Drawn and Quarterly have reproduced some early comics, in affordable, lushly produced volumes.
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Fair warning: history nerdery to ensue, like unto my "Baby, It's Cold Outside" nerdxposition that gave lisarea shpilkes the other day.
In a 1908 comic called Ba-Ba which relays the comically sweet adventures of Mary and her little lamb, I encountered the following historically significant panel (clicky for a larger version):
You'll notice that Mary makes a point of telling BaBa, who was recently shorn but is now wearing a wig so he doesn't feel bad about himself, that they are in front of the Flatiron Building in New York City. The peruked gentleman involved in the tragic wind-swept wig mixup also refers to the Flatiron Building, declaring it a public nuisance.
The reason for this is that the height of the building combined with its location between two major thoroughfares (Broadway and Fifth) and in front of Madison Square created unpredictable eddies and whirls of wind. The area became famous for its gusts, and groups of disreputable young men would congregate across from the Flatiron where Broadway and Fifth meet East 23rd hoping to catch glimpses of ladies' skirts flying up to reveal a salacious glimpse of stockinged ankle.
Every once in a while the cops would come around and disperse the hooligans. This became known as giving them the "23 skidoo" on account of they were on 23rd and being told to gtfo (ie, skedaddle, ie, skidoo).
TRUE STORY.
Well, maybe. There are several other possibilities for the genesis of the term, but this one is the most popular and it's the only one that is intertwined with the touching story of Baba so I'm posting it as if it were absolute truth and none of you can stop me.
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Is that what 23 Skidoo is about...
I don't know if it what the band had in mind, but that's what it was about when the term took the country by storm. The Flatiron was finished in 1902. Before 1906, "23 skidoo" had never appeared in print. By the end 1906 it was all over the place. It's one of the earliest instances of slang really taking off. It even made the British Wreck Commission's inquiry into the sinking of Titanic. Spoiler: they didn't get it.
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I never figured out what the band was named after. I had heard the expression before, mainly in old Loony Tunes cartoons, but it wasn't clear what they meant by it.
The band is British btw, so maybe they didn't know either...
Oh yeah, this is what it says in wikipedia:
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The group was named after a mysterious Illuminati phrase that appeared in the work of Aleister Crowley, William S. Burroughs, and filmmaker Julian Biggs.
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