Saturday, June 10, 2023

Today in Comics History, June 10: Happy birthday, Howlin' Wolf!

No, not this guy:


from "Watchdogged Wolf" in [Tex Avery's] Wolf & Red #2 (Dark Horse, May 1995), script by Henry Gilroy, pencils by Stephanie Gladden, inks and letters by Jim Massara, colors by Pamela Rambo

...but this man, born on this day in 1910: one of the greatest blues musicians of all time across his four-decade 20th century career, with blues classics like "How Many More Years," "Moanin' at Midnight," "Smokestack Lightning," "The Red Rooster," "Smokestack Lightnin'", "Killing Floor," "Spoonful" and many more.


from "Patton" in Zap Comix #11 (Last Gasp, February 1985), by Robert Crumb

Happy birthday. Mr. Wolf!

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