For those of you who may have wondered what Sailor Moxie of the LAPD Cosplay division has been up to these past several months… Seems she’s been working in the Giant Robot repair depot…
Which brings us around to possibly one of the most pointless strips I’ve yet done – a sort of, “Spoof” er “Homage” of something that most of you have never heard of… Y’See, way back when — there was this li’l ol’ Cartoonist, who drew one of the great strips of all time – his name was Will Eisner, his strip was “The Spirit”, which was ground breaking in so many ways – too many to list here… (Though the one that apparently impressed myself the most, was his use of gloves with rolled cuffs and lines on the back) But that aside, after Will Eisner ceased working on the Spirit in 1952, he didn’t get out of comics, he just focused on doing them for the Army!
“PS Preventive Maintenance Monthly” was the Military only publication that he founded, a mix of Comics and sage advice on equipment maintenance – mostly targeted towards the Motor Pool types… PS was later carried on by Murphy Anderson and others and continues to this day I understand…
I first came across PS Mag, as a couple of copies were circulating through the squadron maintenance shops – these things were hard to find and harder to hold on to! Though they didn’t specifically apply to aircraft maintenance, they were a fun read! I recall one particular story, where Eisner’s blonde cheesecake maintenance tech “Connie Rod” (Yeah, he knew what would focus soldier’s attention) related some sort of engine maintenance spiel while the buttons popped off her blouse…
A schtick which I’ve *Ahem* Borrowed here – for Sailor Moxie… (I’d thought of doing this page with Bunz, but she um… lacks the proper “Equipment” to pull it off)… While Joe Stooge here is a sort of 2nd string stand-in, for Eisner’s “Joe Dope”, a sort of Private Snafu wannabe, who generally cut corners and did everything wrong… If you were checking out a Jeep from the Motor Pool, you wouldn’t want one that Joe had worked on!!
Now, I’m gonna go cook some Chow Mein… Have a Moxie Xmas everyone! JQ
No… button bit… isn’t… funny. (Oggle) Nothing even vaguely humorous about it. Lewd, lascivious, sexist, prurient, erotic, magnificent, eye-popping (aheh), and all round eye candy… but not funny. 42(D)-24-36 eh? Looks about right.
Hey wait a minute. Where’s poor little Bunz while all this big busted boobery is going on? She off crying in a corner because all the guys wanna do is oggle the cosplay cop-tart? It’s NOT FAIR! Give up some love for the little girls. I mean really, what are ya gonna do with all that mammary anyway?…
I remember being in High School JROTC, oh, way back when (mid ’70s) and every now and then we’d get this mailer of little pamphlets with some busty girl lecturing on how to maintain this or that. Usually with some cute little moral tale at the end. Like, “He didn’t maintain his weapon and now he’s gonna kroak” sort of thing. Might those have been Eisner? (or were they too late?)
Seems they could have been PS Mags… As I recall them, they were about Paperback Book size (a li’l wider) with a saddle-stitched spine (Staples) and the cover was a heavier paper stock than the interior pages – most pages were two color printing (black and one other color)…
Or could be that the art work was reused for fliers and posters and such… Will Eisner’s art style is fairly distinctive… I think he stopped working on PS around 72, While Murphy Anderson carried it on using the same characters…
Aw gee… at that, Moxie sure beats Pvt. Snafu…
At that, though can’t you just imagine some Bad Guy trying to hold Moxie at gunpoint?
BG: “Hands up, Bimbo!”
(PTWANG!!)
“AAAARGH! My EYE! My EYE!”
Moxie: “Oh, really… (sniff) Can’t you pathetic criminal types think up some new gag?”
BG: “(Moan) I regret nothing…”
It’s just not the same without Bunz and Katz. Besides, it strays pretty far from the continuity of the strip. Assuming there *is* any continuity in the strip, that is…
Josh thanks for a walk on return of Officer Moxie (though a little out of her normal properly fitted uniform in honor of great motor pool maintenance publications). Let us not forget, that she is not only eye-candy (ouch!), but also a totally kick ass defender of justice. So much so, that for several panels that all our hero/villain Bunz could manage to stammer out was “… run, run, run”. Those that want to harm the blue-green orb deserve a run in with the likes of her. Thanks. And yes, she deserves to have the occasional pin-up drawing. Keep her in your roster of art characters.
For those of you who may have wondered what Sailor Moxie of the LAPD Cosplay division has been up to these past several months… Seems she’s been working in the Giant Robot repair depot…
Which brings us around to possibly one of the most pointless strips I’ve yet done – a sort of, “Spoof” er “Homage” of something that most of you have never heard of… Y’See, way back when — there was this li’l ol’ Cartoonist, who drew one of the great strips of all time – his name was Will Eisner, his strip was “The Spirit”, which was ground breaking in so many ways – too many to list here… (Though the one that apparently impressed myself the most, was his use of gloves with rolled cuffs and lines on the back) But that aside, after Will Eisner ceased working on the Spirit in 1952, he didn’t get out of comics, he just focused on doing them for the Army!
“PS Preventive Maintenance Monthly” was the Military only publication that he founded, a mix of Comics and sage advice on equipment maintenance – mostly targeted towards the Motor Pool types… PS was later carried on by Murphy Anderson and others and continues to this day I understand…
I first came across PS Mag, as a couple of copies were circulating through the squadron maintenance shops – these things were hard to find and harder to hold on to! Though they didn’t specifically apply to aircraft maintenance, they were a fun read! I recall one particular story, where Eisner’s blonde cheesecake maintenance tech “Connie Rod” (Yeah, he knew what would focus soldier’s attention) related some sort of engine maintenance spiel while the buttons popped off her blouse…
A schtick which I’ve *Ahem* Borrowed here – for Sailor Moxie… (I’d thought of doing this page with Bunz, but she um… lacks the proper “Equipment” to pull it off)… While Joe Stooge here is a sort of 2nd string stand-in, for Eisner’s “Joe Dope”, a sort of Private Snafu wannabe, who generally cut corners and did everything wrong… If you were checking out a Jeep from the Motor Pool, you wouldn’t want one that Joe had worked on!!
Now, I’m gonna go cook some Chow Mein… Have a Moxie Xmas everyone! JQ
The Third Reich did that too – http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/02/wwii-nazis-tank-manuals-unexpectedly.html
Now that is Odd… Kind’a recalls to mind: “Flieger Bunnies at Attaken”
http://www.cuteybunny.com/XtraPix/BAW-Imgs/Flieger.html
Which reminds me, for anyone who’s interested, there’s a number of PS Mag web sites – this one has scans of some of the old complete issues:
http://dig.library.vcu.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/psm
There also seems to be a compilation of PS Mag issues for sale on Amazon…
No… button bit… isn’t… funny. (Oggle) Nothing even vaguely humorous about it. Lewd, lascivious, sexist, prurient, erotic, magnificent, eye-popping (aheh), and all round eye candy… but not funny. 42(D)-24-36 eh? Looks about right.
Hey wait a minute. Where’s poor little Bunz while all this big busted boobery is going on? She off crying in a corner because all the guys wanna do is oggle the cosplay cop-tart? It’s NOT FAIR! Give up some love for the little girls. I mean really, what are ya gonna do with all that mammary anyway?…
I remember being in High School JROTC, oh, way back when (mid ’70s) and every now and then we’d get this mailer of little pamphlets with some busty girl lecturing on how to maintain this or that. Usually with some cute little moral tale at the end. Like, “He didn’t maintain his weapon and now he’s gonna kroak” sort of thing. Might those have been Eisner? (or were they too late?)
Seems they could have been PS Mags… As I recall them, they were about Paperback Book size (a li’l wider) with a saddle-stitched spine (Staples) and the cover was a heavier paper stock than the interior pages – most pages were two color printing (black and one other color)…
Or could be that the art work was reused for fliers and posters and such… Will Eisner’s art style is fairly distinctive… I think he stopped working on PS around 72, While Murphy Anderson carried it on using the same characters…
Aw gee… at that, Moxie sure beats Pvt. Snafu…
At that, though can’t you just imagine some Bad Guy trying to hold Moxie at gunpoint?
BG: “Hands up, Bimbo!”
(PTWANG!!)
“AAAARGH! My EYE! My EYE!”
Moxie: “Oh, really… (sniff) Can’t you pathetic criminal types think up some new gag?”
BG: “(Moan) I regret nothing…”
It’s just not the same without Bunz and Katz. Besides, it strays pretty far from the continuity of the strip. Assuming there *is* any continuity in the strip, that is…
I’m pretty sure Moxie’s eyes got bigger.
On the off chance that I won’t have the Bunz & Katz’ Yuletide Tribulations page ready by Xmas Day…
Josh thanks for a walk on return of Officer Moxie (though a little out of her normal properly fitted uniform in honor of great motor pool maintenance publications). Let us not forget, that she is not only eye-candy (ouch!), but also a totally kick ass defender of justice. So much so, that for several panels that all our hero/villain Bunz could manage to stammer out was “… run, run, run”. Those that want to harm the blue-green orb deserve a run in with the likes of her. Thanks. And yes, she deserves to have the occasional pin-up drawing. Keep her in your roster of art characters.
A Merry Christmas to Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea!
Merry Christmas, guys.