The kelly connection
Today’s column orbits Bell Features artist Fred Kelly whose best-known creation was probably Mr....
Read Moreby Ivan Kocmarek | Oct 21, 2020 | Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 19
Today’s column orbits Bell Features artist Fred Kelly whose best-known creation was probably Mr....
Read Moreby Ivan Kocmarek | Jul 8, 2020 | Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 12
If you want to research, first hand, the Bell Features holdings of the Library and Archives of...
Read Moreby Ivan Kocmarek | Jul 12, 2017 | Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 6
It was great to meet up with Jack Tremblay and his son Rick Trembles at the Montreal Comic Con...
Read Moreby Ivan Kocmarek | Oct 21, 2015 | Columns, Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 2
The second edition of the Forest City Comic Con was held this past Sunday at the London Convention...
Read Moreby Ivan Kocmarek | Jul 30, 2014 | Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 5
In late 1944, Steele seemed to have come up with the idea of doing cut-out masks of a few of the lead Bell characters on the inside covers of some of the Bell Features books. We modern collectors look back somewhat aghast on this because, just like Bell’s placement of cut-out coupons in similar locations, it must have led to wanton disfigurement of many of these books, but such were the ways of the world back then towards something that was seen as ultimately disposable and easily remaindered. Steele signed these “fathead” portraits with his shortened monogram “TAS.”
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