Kleefeld on Comics

Speed Jaxon was a WWII-era comic strip by Jay Jackson (sometimes under the pseudonym Pol Curi) that ran in some African-American newspapers like the Chicago Defender. Conceptually, they were kind of similar to Buz Sawyer with a focus on wartime adventures...

I've talked before about Dell's Lobo from 1966, and how it featured the first Black character who had the comic named after him. In that previous post, I included scans of the first issue and linked to where you could find scans of the second. So it...

Ron Wilson first came to my attention in Thing #7. It wasn't a title I was reading regularly so I hadn't seen him name on the first half-dozen issues, but not only had he drawn this issue but he also appeared in it. It stood out to me because it was...

I recently stumbled across this interesting piece by Wee Pals cartoonist Morrie Turner. Back in 1983, Turner collaborated with music conductor Michael Paul Gibson to adapt Igor Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale into a comic/cartoon/children's story. (It...