We stand on the shoulders of giants. Frank Jacobs, Wallace Wood, "If famous authors wrote the comics." (MAD 46) The Tennessee Williams version of Little Orphan Annie. Just the first panel.
I'm probably wrong, but don't those parallel lines going up to her wrist and hand suggest that Wood felt pity for her strenuous pose and drew in a support bracket so she could do that all day long?
Deer Dairy today I seen a joke in a comic I been looking at for over half a century.
Oh my God! Does that also have the Tennessee Williams Cinderella "Sin Doll-Ella?" I loved Mad as a kid, and my brother had a little pulp paperback "Like, Mad" with Alfred E. as a beatnik with goatee and beret. I didn't understand 90% of the jokes, but that didn't stop me from reading and rereading.
