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Sunday, March 17, 2024

Bully and His Pals on St. Patrick's Day: The Wearin' of the Grin

A very happy St. Patrick's Day to all of you from all of us!

None of us are old enough to drink Guinness, but we're gonna eat so much Irish Cheddar that John won't be able to get into the bathroom for HOURS.

None of us are old enough to drink Guinness, but we're gonna eat so much Irish Cheddar that John won't be able to get into the bathroom for HOURS.

We held a dress reheasral yesterday but Kitty Pryde 🐈‍⬛ kept facin' the wrong way.

'Kitty! It's too early to be drunk!'

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Today in Comics History, March 17, St. Patrick's Day: From the comic strip printed below this one, Popeye gazes up longingly

Hey Ernie, we pretty much all knew that was a piggy bank, you didn't need to spell it out.

Nancy (United Feature Syndicate, March 17, 1966), by Ernie Bushmiller
A special tip 'of the three rocks to Johnny Callicutt for bringing this strip to my attention. Johnny runs the absolutely essential and unofficial Nancy Comics by Ernie Bushmiller feeds on Twitter and Bluesky! Thanks, Johnny!

Friday, March 17, 2023

Today in Comics History, March 17, St. Patrick's Day: Sadly, the Mitchells never had a child. Dennis exists only in Mr. Wilson's tortured mind

No, Dennis! You're not allowed to talk to anyone from Caste 8!

He'd much rather be driven by Tracy Chapman. In a fast car.

from "Marching Along" in Dennis the Menace Bonus Magazine Series #151 [Dennis the Menace Yearbook] (Hallden/Fawcett, April 1976), creators uncredited and unknown

Today in Comics History, March 17, St. Patrick's Day: Traditional Irish cops celebrate the holiday by accepting graft from Elvis

'I see you're smokin, boys, you save the coupons?' 'Sure! How do you think I got this cool police cruiser, begorrah?'

from Realworlds: Superman one-shot (DC, August 2000), script by Steve Vance, pencils by José Luis García-López, inks by Joe Rubinstein, colors by Dave Stewart, letters by Bob Lappan

Thursday, March 17, 2022

Today in Lucky St. Patrick's Day Comics History, March 17: The budget's not in the green

Why, the budget for King Shark's nom noms alone...

from "A Very Harley Holiday" in DC Rebirth Holiday Special #1 one-shot (DC, February 2017), script by Paul Dini, pencils and inks by Elsa Charretier, colors by Hi-Fi, letters by Josh Reed

Today in Lucky St. Patrick's Day Comics History, March 17: The boys of the GCPD choir were singing Galway Bay

YES, I know these panels don't have an actual 'March 17' in them. But really, when else could this take place?

from Batman: Dark Victory #6 (DC, April 2000), script by Jeph Loeb, pencils and inks by Tim Sale, colors by Gregory Wright, color separations by Heroic Age, letters by Richard Starkings

Today in Lucky St. Patrick's Comics Day History, March 17: That was actually industrial waste, Commissioner Gordon

'If they can dye the river green today, why can't they dye it blue the other 364 days?'

from Batman: The Long Halloween #6 (DC, May 1997), script by Jeph Loeb, pencils and inks by Tim Sale, colors by Gregory Wright, letters by Richard Starkings

St. Patrick's Day: Hey, remember when his name was "L.C.?" Me either.

'Charmin'? It';s an advertisement for toilet paper, too?

advertisement from DC Comics cover-dated October 1964, artist unknown

Today in Lucky St. Patrick's Day Comics History, March 17: Vicious slur on the Dutch weaponized

'...with their lousy wooden shoes and crappy windmills and stinkin' tulips...' 'Whoa there!'

from Spider-Man: Marvels Snapshots one-shot (Marvel, December 2020); script, pencils, and inks by Howard Chaykin, colors by Jesus Aburtov, letters by Ken Bruzenak

Today in Lucky St. Patrick's Day Comics History, March 17: Leprechaun waits on stoop to enact Irish Kitchen Mob vengeance

'tee hee! Wid' me little knife I be stabbin' ye about yer ankles! Hee hee!'

from Batman: The Long Halloween #6 (May 1997), script by Jeph Loeb, pencils and inks by Tim Sale, colors by Gregory Wright, letters by Richard Starkings

Saturday, March 17, 2018

Bully Eats Food Drinks Beer on St. Patricks Day: I've been told this is the whole point of St. Patrick's Day

Don't worry! I can certainly hold my alcohol.

XXX

...

oH bEer YOu ArE mY bEsTeST PaL eVerrrr

nighty night

Fun with Comics, St. Patrick's Day Edition: Lest we forget that Wolverine was famous to leprechauns

Wolverine's amnesia has made him forget that in 1932, he was married to that leprechaun.

from The [Uncanny] X-Men (1963 series) #103 (Marvel, February 1977), script by Chris Claremont, pencils by Dave Cockrum, inks by Sam Grainger, colors by Janice Cohen, letters by John Costanza

Thursday, March 17, 2016

The Syracuse Post-Standard became the Hobbiton Bugle so gradually we hardly noticed

from The Syracuse Post-Standard (March 17, 2016)

Monday, March 17, 2014

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

from "The Luck of O'Grady" in Superman (1939 series) #22 (DC, May 1943), script by Jerry Siegel, pencils and inks by John Sikela

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Today in Lucky St. Patrick's Day Comics History, March 17: Batman wishes he'd just stayed home and drank green beer

'I could have had some of Alfred's corned beef and cabbage and then sat back and watched 'The Quiet Man'...but NO, I had to go fight crime...'

from Batman: Dark Victory #6 (DC, July 2000), script by Jeph Loeb, pencils and inks by Tim Sale, colors by Gregory Wright, color separations by Heroic Age, letters by Richard Starkings

Your Lucky St. Patrick's Day Seven Ten of a Kind: I couldn't find ten covers with Shamrock on them, so...

'EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE' (Uncanny X-Men #401)

'EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE' (Uncanny X-Men: First Class #3)

'EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE' (X-Men v. 1 #37)

'EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE' (X-Men Unlimited #16)

'EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE (inhale) EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE'

'EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE' (Uncanny X-Men #28)

'EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE...hey, a same Story Different Cover!...EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE' (Uncanny X-Men #76)

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE (Captain America #172)

'..................................' (Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Book of the Dead and Inactive #13)

(More Ten of a Kind here.)

Your Lucky St. Patrick's Day Cartoon: The Wearing of the Grin

Looney Tunes, "The Wearing of the Grin" starring Porky Pig (Warner Brothers, July 1951), directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese

Saturday, March 17, 2012

St. Patrick's Day: Darby O'Gill and the #009900 People

'Tis the only comic book personally endorsed by Denis Leary AND Lucky the Lucky Charms Leprechaun.'

For your St. Patrick's Day pleasure (because I can't email you a corned beef and cabbage dinner or ask the Pogues to personally appear in your living room), here's several panels from Dell's comic book adaptation of the 1959 Walt Disney film Darby O'Gill and the Little People, starring Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, and that most Irish of actors, Sean Connery. And to allow you to get to get back more quickly to your choruses of "Haul Away Joe" and your perfectly poured pint of delicious, creamy, black-as-the-grave Guinness, I'll abridge it by only posting the panels that are overwhelmingly green. (And as always, hover over the images for some alt-text that will no doubt have me a the defendant in a suit by the Irish Anti-Stereotype League.)

It's a well-documented fact* in comic publishing history that this book used up so much green ink that Dell had to cancel their long-running Green Hornet and Tales of the Green Beret series. I hereby proudly bring you, in all its Alex Toth-pencilled, evergreen emerald elegance...

In VistaVision! Which means, Disney owns it.

In VistaVision! Which means, Disney owns it.

'I still can't get over how Clint Eastwood made us paint all the townspeople green.'

Brian Cox the physicist is a LEPRECHAUN? Oh, wait, Brian CONNER. Nevermind.

'An' the first one is, make me stop doin' these shadow puppets!'

'I knew no good would come out of answering that O'Craigslist ad!'

Father Murphy appears courtesy of 'Little House on the Prairie.'

'Tis no Michael McAnybody...'tis JAMES BOND himself!' 'They're onto me! Quick, Q, inflate the eschape pod!'

'Faith an' begorrah! 'Tis surely Vince McColletta who's erased our backgrounds!'

'WOOF!' 'What's that, Lassie? Darby O'Gill has fallen down the well?' 'WOOF!'

'I'll take his wallet and you get his watch!'

The Disney Corporation has never released the outtake footage of Albert Sharpe purposefully stomping on dozens of leprechaun extras.

And now, 'Lotte Reiniger's Darby O'Gill and the Little People.'

King Brian of the Leprechauns should have worn his yellow waistcoat...doesn't he know Darby's power ring won't work on the color yellow?

'A foin dinner of these delicious Lucky Charms!'

They only call him Pony because he likes carrots and apples.

And this is how Sean Connery's drinking problem began.

Good to see Wayland Flowers and Madame are still getting some work.

Suddenly it's the Irish version of Wuthering Heights!

'Well, she's no fun; she fell right over.'

Just think how much cooler this would have been with the Black Racer.

'Now, please exit to the right, and do not forget to pick up souvenirs in our tiny gift shop!'

from Four Color #1024 [Darby O'Gill and the Little People] (August 1959), pencils and inks by Alex Toth
I can not tell a lie: t'was my little stuffed self who tinted that Dell Pledge to Parents a lovely shade of green, but the rest of the overwhelmingly-verdant comic book panels I've posted were as kelly as the day they were published. And in the spirit of O'Photoshoppery, I've also tinted this inside front-cover photosummary with that most lovely of shades as well. Never let it be said that Ted Turner has a monopoly on colorizing movies!

Next up from Disney...something starring Fred MacMurray and/or Dean Jones!

Next up from Disney...something starring Fred MacMurray and/or Dean Jones!

I've left the most delightful part for last: a lovely back cover pin-up of that comely Colleen, the ever-radiant Janet Munro.

In this famous image, Janet Munro auditions for the lead role in 'Home Alone.'

In this famous image, Janet Munro auditions for the lead role in 'Home Alone.'

'Tis true as far as Disney heroines go that Janet Munro is no Hayley Mills, but I've proudly and unabashedly ruined the value of my copy of ~~One~~ Four Color #1024 by cutting the pin-up out and hanging it on my wall. Happy St., Patrick's Day, Miss Munro! Happy St. Patrick's Day, Sean Connery! Happy St. Patrick's Day, everyone!

*No it isn't.