Bill Peckmann &Comic Art &Illustration 07 Sep 2012 05:52 am
Toth Oaters
The Republican and Democratic conventions have me worked up into a political frenzy. Given the patriotic fervor running through my blood, these days, it’s appropriate to post this Alex Toth sampler. There’s nothing more American than good cowboy stories, and Bill Peckmann has sent me just that. Over to Bill:
- Alex Toth spent a large portion of his life in Hollywood and not only did he live there, he breathed it! Alex loved movies and like any good film director he was able to do comic book genre stories with the same great flair that a John Ford would bring to his different films.
Here are three ‘Western’ stories by Alex with each one going down somewhat of a different ‘Trail’.
The first one, ‘Anachronism’, was published in DC’s ‘Weird Western Tales’, # 14, Nov. 1972.
1Alex laid out this story horizontally, which makes for
some beautifully composed pages and panels, like a
well done Sunday funnies page of years ago. The readers
would have had to read the book sideways, I wonder how
Alex got away with that with the editors/publishers.
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I’ll separate the stories again with some of Alex’s ‘Doodles’.
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The story that follows is:
‘The Wings Of Jealous Gods’ from DC’s ‘Adventure Comics’, # 425, Jan. 1973.
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Here are more of the doodles Alex Toth did, these in pen.
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Here is the third Toth Western tale. It was a small booklet done for the Ralston-Purina Cereal Company in 1982.
It’s a story starring movie cowboy Tom Mix. (It must have taken Alex back to his childhood days of Saturday afternoon movie house matinees.)
There was hope of doing more, but as far as I know, this was the only one produced.
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And, finally . . . A couple of more doodles.
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on 07 Sep 2012 at 11:32 am 1.Joakim Gunnarsson said …
A post loaded with Toth art I’ve never seen before.
What a great way to begin the weekend!