DCM Download Site > New Uploads
OtherEric's Uploads
OtherEric:
Sorry for the delays in anything getting up here, just a slight time crunch mixed with another project. I'll have more of JVJ's novelty books up very soon.
Meanwhile, here's a trio of Adventures of Peter Wheat 34-36. I would really like to hear from any other Kelly fans on these, 34 and 35 are stated in multiple sources to be by Walt Kelly. But they don't look like he had much if anything to do with them, and they don't look that much like Hubbard either. If it was just Overstreet saying they were Kelly, I would disregard it. But I'm pretty sure Maggie Thompson has also said they're Kelly and I respect her knowledge on the subject. So, any thoughts?
Yoc:
Geez, I'm not sure Eric.
#34 doesn't feel like him much but #35 does at time and then that really odd magnet monster shows and looks nothing like him!
JonTheScanner:
I agree with Yoc. I don't know if someone tried to imitate Kelly or if Kelly handed off unfinished stuff to assistants. Maybe they had someone do a couple while searching for a new permanent person and the "these are by Kelly" comments are more "we know precisely when Hubbard started so these must be by Kelly."
JVJ (RIP):
--- Quote from: OtherEric on August 26, 2011, 01:19:41 PM ---I would really like to hear from any other Kelly fans on these, 34 and 35 are stated in multiple sources to be by Walt Kelly. But they don't look like he had much if anything to do with them, and they don't look that much like Hubbard either. If it was just Overstreet saying they were Kelly, I would disregard it. But I'm pretty sure Maggie Thompson has also said they're Kelly and I respect her knowledge on the subject. So, any thoughts?
--- End quote ---
Well, it's known that Kelly had an assistant(s) and that his(their) job was to present finished work that looked like Kelly. This looks like Kelly in many ways, but, as you note, Eric, in other ways it doesn't. Kelly is most in evidence in the most prominent characters and fades off into not even being there as the importance lessens.
My GUESS is that these are roughly penciled by Kelly with more detail/attention being given to Peter Wheat and a few other characters, with finished pencils and inks on everything by George Ward (and perhaps others).
FWIW.
(|:{>
OtherEric:
That sounds about right, Jim. Or at least as good a guess as we're likely to get at this point. I'm also thinking that, if Kelly worked on the 34 and 35, he also did some work on the 37.
More generally, issues 34-37 of Adventures are a creative mess. One thing I will mention about Kelly's involvement: There's no way on Earth he wrote any of those issues. The storytelling in these are a complete mess, and I even think it's possible parts of the story in 35-37 were originally meant for something else. Going from an underwater story back to the surface to fight the Wizard, then dispatching him so quickly they have time to build a house before they go back underwater? The only way I can make any sense out of this is there was a sudden need for pages and they took pages from elsewhere- possibly a 3-part, 12-page serial for Peter Wheat News- and shoved it in to get the 35 and 36 done in time. This might also explain why Kelly looks completely absent from the 36 but, at least to me, looks to have some slight involvement in the 37. (Or at least as much in the 37 as the 35; his involvement in both is minimal if it's there at all.)
I find these issues fascinating, hinting as confusion behind the scenes as Kelly left the title and headed off with Pogo to the newspapers. I just don't find them good.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version