Actually, I grafted the Fitzgerald story onto the strip. The originals can be seen at the URL on the bottom. It was originally entitled "It Happened To Alice" and practically swims in melodrama. In one of the panels, Alice hides her booze in a hatbox marked "HATS." Later, she goes out drinking and her house burns down with her kid inside. I wasn't going to make a burning down joke around Zelda, so I chose this set of panels instead.
http://www.ep.tc has an amazing amount of "Comics With Problems" -- Fat Albert deals with teenage alcoholism, Dennis The Menace tells a story of the time he nearly overdosed on iron pills (!!) and there's this terrible psychedelic 70s comic attempting to educate us on STDs.
The best part of the Dennis The Menace one is that two comics about poison prevention came out with Dennis The Menace in them -- the one from the 1960s gives a lot of facts about poison and explains how to keep them away from kids, how to keep the labels on prescription drug bottles, that sort of thing. Rather helpful once you get past the amazing sequence where Dennis sprays Mr. Wilson with pesticides.
By contrast, the one from the 1980s is all over the place, teaching kids this vague song about how "We ask first before we taste!" ("We ask who?" one of the comments on the site asks. "Before we taste what?!") and gives Dennis the opportunity to relate how he ODed on iron pills once.
The scary part is that, after working the dialogue out and all for this one shot, I feel I could probably totally do an entire retrofit brief biography of the two in this abbreviated "Classics Illustrated" fashion.
Then again, I think I have the full collection of those "Big Book Of..." (Vice, Death, Weirdos, 1970s) volumes put out in the late 90s, so the Rhythm of the Condensed comes quite easily.
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Date: 2006-04-28 01:04 pm (UTC)http://www.ep.tc has an amazing amount of "Comics With Problems" -- Fat Albert deals with teenage alcoholism, Dennis The Menace tells a story of the time he nearly overdosed on iron pills (!!) and there's this terrible psychedelic 70s comic attempting to educate us on STDs.
The best part of the Dennis The Menace one is that two comics about poison prevention came out with Dennis The Menace in them -- the one from the 1960s gives a lot of facts about poison and explains how to keep them away from kids, how to keep the labels on prescription drug bottles, that sort of thing. Rather helpful once you get past the amazing sequence where Dennis sprays Mr. Wilson with pesticides.
By contrast, the one from the 1980s is all over the place, teaching kids this vague song about how "We ask first before we taste!" ("We ask who?" one of the comments on the site asks. "Before we taste what?!") and gives Dennis the opportunity to relate how he ODed on iron pills once.
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Date: 2006-04-28 03:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-28 04:26 pm (UTC)Then again, I think I have the full collection of those "Big Book Of..." (Vice, Death, Weirdos, 1970s) volumes put out in the late 90s, so the Rhythm of the Condensed comes quite easily.