Sunday, March 24, 2024

A Sunday Funny by Gilbert Shelton

 Here's a little down-home verse with the great underground cartoonist Gilbert Shelton. (Click on any panel for a larger, more easily read version.)

Verse and Art by Gilbert Sheldon

The preceding appeared in a few different forms in underground comics anthologies during the 1970s. This particular version was published in "Feds 'n' Heads" (1978).


Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Ramadan Kareem!

 How can you make the Holy Month of Ramadan even better? Shades of Gray's main sponsor has the answer!

Ramadan ad


Sunday, March 17, 2024

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

 Lucille Ball is here to show you how a proper lady celebrates this glorious day!

Lucille Ball dressed up for St. Patrick's Day

Not everyone necessarily thinks this holiday should be celebrated, nor that St. Patrick should be honored. In the interest of fairness, we're giving those people equal time and space this year.

St Patrick's Day protesters by Hannes Bok


In observation of World Sleep Day...

 

Flapper Fanny by Ethel Hays

Sunday, March 3, 2024

Sunday Funnies!

 From the Golden Age of the Underground Comix, we present this little gem by R. White!

By R. White, originally presented in "Nobody's Bizness Funnies"







(Originally printed in the pages of Nobody's Bizness Funnies #1)

Saturday, March 2, 2024

March is underway

... and here's a look at how they used to advertise booze in 1908. This drawing by Georg Hanel was featured in "Jugend" Magazine.

March Kupperberg Gold ad

(And if we were put in charge of marketing adult beverages today, we'd follow the lead of ad executives of yore and rely on fantasy elements, too!)