tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2928533391830370422.post3558006247548842611..comments2023-11-05T01:52:21.835-08:00Comments on Comic Book Attic: The Forgotten Art of Dick Briefer: Romance, Crime and Jughead... A Wildly Varied Slate (1950-52)Funnybook Attichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16945602110000563133noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2928533391830370422.post-365335575296294312015-04-13T13:27:09.309-07:002015-04-13T13:27:09.309-07:00Hi Ben! I think I found an original drawing from y...Hi Ben! I think I found an original drawing from your uncle but I haven't found any pictures online that look like similar. I'd love to send you a pic of it to see if you recognize it. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07768396033136074896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2928533391830370422.post-275750887074523452014-03-30T07:59:17.581-07:002014-03-30T07:59:17.581-07:00And it's a travesty, with all due respect to t...And it's a travesty, with all due respect to the parties involved. The horribly butchered scans are a dis-service to the material. Frank M. Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04673579882180372546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2928533391830370422.post-13611522256324454452014-03-30T07:57:48.586-07:002014-03-30T07:57:48.586-07:00Hi Ben! I'd love to interview you about your u...Hi Ben! I'd love to interview you about your uncle Dick. There's almost nothing known about him, and you've told me many things about him I never knew! Please get in touch me with at eubiecat@gmail.com. Thanks so much for your comments!Frank M. Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04673579882180372546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2928533391830370422.post-24206014988331236442014-03-26T10:17:10.522-07:002014-03-26T10:17:10.522-07:00This is my dearly beloved Uncle Dick you are so ri...This is my dearly beloved Uncle Dick you are so rightfully appreciating, and I enjoy your appreciation immensely. I'm sure I'm his oldest living relative, and in fact was very close to him as his oldest nephew when he was working in NY and later in Florida. He was an enormous influence on me as I was growing up. He was a wonderfully accomplished musician (played piano and his treasured Hammond Electric Organ), and amazing magician, entertaining family gatherings, an actor (one of the founders of the Hollywood, FL Little Theatre) and just a surpassingly talented performer and artist in everything he did (and I could cite several other accomplishments). When he said "hello" it was a piece of work, no kidding. I was very lucky, indeed, to have him as a "model" growing up. I've tried to celebrate some other dimensions of his work by posting some YouTube videos of his collaborative work with my father creating Playette Theatre story books. Please see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bosc8F_UgO4 for starters! Many thanks for your work in this blog. - Ben WiseMicromanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06341464099294282866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2928533391830370422.post-73078241719316025492014-03-14T12:03:33.692-07:002014-03-14T12:03:33.692-07:00Fantagraphics was preparing a comprehensive reprin...Fantagraphics was preparing a comprehensive reprint series that was sabotaged when Craig Yoe rushed a so-so anthology to market first, causing them to postpone their edition indefinitely. Eventually, PS Artbooks started their own set, starting initially with the first issue of the solo series (they're apparently having trouble sourcing some of the <i>Prize Comics</i> issues), and the first volume came out last Fall. http://www.pspublishing.co.uk/roy-thomas-presents-frankenstein--the-classic-series-written--drawn-by-dick-briefer-1873-p.aspDevlin Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11358271733393938491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2928533391830370422.post-49785754034554913532014-03-11T14:49:18.688-07:002014-03-11T14:49:18.688-07:00Dick Briefer is one of my favorite cartoonists, bu...Dick Briefer is one of my favorite cartoonists, but is also very difficult to find reprints of. Why has no publisher done a comprehensive reprint of his humorous Frankenstien comics -- surely some of the best comics ever made? Or have they, and I have just not seen it yet (in this golden age of comics reprints)?Laskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09032964387014204241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2928533391830370422.post-64053745064002723982014-03-07T15:41:44.187-08:002014-03-07T15:41:44.187-08:00Thanks, Art! I'm glad I can excavate some inte...Thanks, Art! I'm glad I can excavate some interesting tidbits.<br />I, too, would love to see a run of "Pinky Rankin." Please let the wartime "Daily Worker"s get digitized soon!Frank M. Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04673579882180372546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2928533391830370422.post-38733835691773057682014-03-07T10:23:41.730-08:002014-03-07T10:23:41.730-08:00Nice finds, Frank! I enjoyed your writing on this,...Nice finds, Frank! I enjoyed your writing on this, too -- love the way you manage to capture the feel of Briefer's art in words. Even when he's drawing 'straight" stories, his cartoonist bent shows. I was struck by the funny expression on the woman's face in the panel you singled out for the visual lead-in to this essay. Just as Jack Cole hadda magical mixture of big-foot and heroic comics, Briefer in these examples presents a bubbly chemistry between loose-scrawl and representational comics. Briefer's work deserves more attention -- thanks for leading the charge.Paul C.Tumeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05398929835829679477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2928533391830370422.post-46477455304023349332014-03-07T09:16:53.618-08:002014-03-07T09:16:53.618-08:00hey, Frank— Thanks for this post and for this head...hey, Frank— Thanks for this post and for this heads-up to this virtually unseen corner of Briefer's career, Seeing that his Funny Frankenstein scrawls (drawn sometimes, it seems, without penciling) are informed by such solid drawing chops (Sense of design, gesture and expressiveness still intact) is a happy revelation. Thanx for the, as always, well-informed archeological digging. <br /><br />I hope somebody eventually digs up a run of the Pinky Rankin strips Briefer did under an assumed name for the Daily Worker.... arthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17991972177544012867noreply@blogger.com