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Showing posts with label Orlando Busino. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Orlando Busino. Show all posts

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Mad Lab ; Bats 4

Here is the opening story from the May, 1962 Tales Calculated to Drive You Bats # 4. The blue caped skin head is Igor, the host of the comic during it's short run.

The art by Orlando Busino has it's high points and it's less than stellar aspects. The opening splash panel is interesting for the way the lab equipment fills up the panel and makes the lab look cluttered. The coloring of that panel definitely helps organize and separate the background, middle ground and foreground within the art. A black and white version of the panel looks even more cluttered than the colored art. The remaining panels in the story are very simple and do not have as much detail in their backgrounds as the opening splash panel

I'm not impressed with the way the girl in the story is drawn. Her face is too different from the style of Busion's usual bulbous nosed characters. The same goes for the design for Igor; but he doesn't seem as out of place as the girl.



Sunday, December 14, 2008

Tales Calculated to Drive You Bats: 4

Whenever I travel to other cities within the US, I often have this same reaction. Sometimes it is difficult to tell that you are in a different place. The billboards, fast-food joints and strip malls all look the same as they do at home.




© Close-Up, Inc. 1962

Monday, November 17, 2008

Julius the Robot





That's Igor and his bat Freddie playing host to this 1962 story from another story in Archie Comic's Tales Calculated to Drive You BATS, #4.

I can only hope that us out of work artists can find friends like Julius the Robot.

© Close-Up, Inc. 1962

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Tales Calculated to Drive You Bats: 4

As I have mentioned before, Tales Calculated to Drive You Bats is one of my all time favorite comic series. This Archie title didn't last long, only seven issues from Nov. 1961 - Nov. 1962. The comic book hit me at the right time to set my love for funny monsters on track. The artwork by Orlando Busino from the first few books in this series has always been a special inspiration for me. Over at OddBall Comics, Scott Shaw has written about Busino several times. Here, from issue #4,is an early version of the story of a mad scientist's assistant.





© 1962 Close-Up, Inc.