Saturday, December 03, 2022

Today in Comics History, December 3: Happy birthday, Joseph Conrad!

Born on this day in 1857: writer Joseph Conrad, author of Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Heart of Darkness, and The N-Word of the 'Narcissus.'



from Classics Illustrated (1947 series) #136 (Gilberton, January 1957), cover artist unknown; interior story, pencils, and inks by George Evans






from Classics Illustrated (1990 series) #19 (First, February 1991); script, pencils, inks, and colors by John Snyder III; letters by Paul Fricke

Joseph Conrad: Who He Is and How He Came to Be (A Writer That You're Assigned to Read in High School):


from Classics Illustrated #136

For those of you, like me, who were too bored to read all that text: here's the exciting Picto-Graphic version in four glorious colors! Including lotsa black!



from "Joseph Conrad" in Real Life Comics #42 (Pines, November 1947), scripter and artists uncredited and unknown, letters by Ed Hamilton

Happy Birthday, Joe, winner of the 1896-1899 Movember Mustache Competition! Don't forget to ask for your royalties from all those lucrative Apocalypse Now bucks!


from cover of Real Life Comics #42, pencils and inks by Alex Schomburg, letters by Ed Hamilton

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