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Al Capp "Joe Palooka" panels

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Title:	Al Capp "Joe Palooka" panels
Artist:	Al Capp (All)
Media Type:	Ink Wash
Art Type:	Commission
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	1,454
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Added to Site:	5/27/2005
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This is a cutting with only two panels, probably from a Sunday page (the original strips were cut up and pasted when they were converted into comic-books). It was clearly drawn by Al Capp, who ghosted the strip for Ham Fisher in the early '30's. The kid is a dead-ringer for Li'l Abner, down to the inking work on his features.

More from my CAA talk (largely meant as an introduction to the aesthetics of original comic art): "Here are two panels from Ham Fisher’s newspaper strip“Joe Palooka.” I have not been able to find their original publication date, but they clearly date from 1931-1932, during which time Al Capp (who was soon to start his own very successful strip, “Li’l Abner”) worked as a ghost artist for Fisher. The hand throughout is Capp’s, and the young boy is a dead ringer for the later-created Abner. What can we tell from this piece about its creation process? First of all, it was made for color, as the blue-penciled color codes (6A, 6B), indicate. However, we cannot be sure it was intended for a Sunday strip, because the newspaper strips were later re-used to make comic books, which were also in color. This later re-use also explains a couple more facts about the image: it is usually strange to find only a couple of panels, rather than an entire original board. However, when re-formatted for comics, the original pages were simply cut-up and then re-pasted in the shape of a comic-book page—which accounts for the acid yellowing, coming through from the glue on the back. One more thing: as you can see (but as the newspaper and comic-book readers could not), the boxer’s suit was originally intended to be checkered, only later to be covered up with ink and made entirely black."

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