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It's been a while since I've posted any comic book stuff, so let's post some Howie Post!

Howie, who passed away not so long ago, had a long and respectable career in cartooning. One of his early gems was Jimminy and the Magic Book series, back in the '40s. As has been noted by BookSteve, Howie was influenced early on by Walt Kelly's work—but certainly not imitating him.

We have OtherEric, of the Digital Comic Museum, to thank for these scans. He sent them over a long time ago, but I just now got around to cleaning them up a bit. OtherEric has shared a bunch of The Adventures of Peter Wheat over on Whirled of Kelly, and I certainly appreciate his continued friendship!

The Fairer Human Bean

Good girl art in the world of big foot cartooning, that was a facet of Howie Post's the DropOuts. As evidenced by the previous post and this one, Howie definitely had a fondness for the fairer human bean.

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This post of a comic by Howie Post is purely nostalgic for me. I bought this comic off the spinner in the winter of '68, weighing in just at the tail end of the Silver Age, according to the reckoning of some, just before the demise of the 12 centers.

Anthro was edited by Joe Orlando, who also edited some of the other non-mainstream titles (I'm only guessing here, so don't yell at me if I'm wrong—maybe BatLash, Angel and the Ape, the DC mystery titles?). Anyway Carmine Infantino was the DC editorial director at the time, and all the titles at that time seemed fun and enticing to read. I've gotten rid of most of those comix over time, but for some reason I kept this one.

Howie Post had a style that some would not enjoy, being anything but Kirby, but to me seemed refreshing. Around that time he was also a newspaper cartoonist, drawing The Dropouts, of which I will show some samples soon.

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The above ad was of course drawn by Kurt Schaffenberger, the redoubtable Superman/Lois Lane/Supergirl artist.