Comickazi SUPERBOWL Results

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The Comickazi Cover Contest is kaput! The results have been tallied, and now it can be told: The winner of The Adventure of the Peerless Peer (because he didn't squawk and request something else) is Mr. Art Scott of Livermore CA, USA (known in select circles as the Emperor of the Universe), whose pan appears at right. Art named everybody in sight, including some that probably don't have names. He even cited the first name of A. Mutt (Augustus). Runner-Up Honors, and a fabulous No-Prize go out to Craig Clarke, proprietor of the fine blog Somebody Dies. Thanks to all who entered.

 

More or less left to right above we have The Yellow Kid, Smokey the Bear, A. Mutt, LBJ, Tricky Dick and Dagwood Bumstead. The guy in the helmet is likely no one in particular. Same with the face roughly in the neighborhood of Dagwood's crotch.

Here we have Charlie Brown, The Mighty Thor, Li'l Abner and Woody Allen. The guy getting his head crushed is probably just an extra. The debonair dude sporting the peace button will be revealed below (way below).

 

Let's work right to left on this one. That's obviously Scrooge McDuck, one of the greatest adventure heroes of all time. Just above dead center is a murky face I suspect belongs to Charlie Chaplin. Art thought the guy getting his teeth ground into the cobblestones resembled Alfred E. Newman. Could be. The mystery here is the boy/girl at far left. The dog next to him/her appears to be Buster Brown's sidekick Tige, but if that's Buster (who did indeed look like a girl) he should have a distinct curl in his bangs, with another on his cheek, and should not be wearing a fur coat. I suspect artist Bob Juanillo meant this to be someone else. The weird look Tige gives this person is mirrored in the look Officer Pupp gives Felix in the scene below.

Left to right again, there's Ignatz Mouse with his signature brick. Next to him is Officer Pupp, who was always chasing him in the Krazy Kat strip. Then Felix the Cat. Pupp is giving Felix a look that seems to say Hey, you're not Krazy, which makes me think Tige (in the previous panel) is thinking Hey, you're not Buster. Moving on, there's Swee'Pea, Mr Abernathy (he's the guy whose name neither Bob or I could remember), Jiminy Cricket, and (just above Jiminy) Henry. The kid hawking Comickazi is drawn in the style of the Miss Peach strip, but we were unable to match his hairstyle with any particular character. The guy coming out of the manhole remains a mystery. And finally, here's a real shocker...

Debonair Dude is/was Robert S./Cap'n Bob Napier, nowadays utterly without vice and tougher than a two-dollar steak. Who'd a thunk he was once not only a peacenik, but a smoker and a wearer of argyle socks? Not me!

Tune in later this week for one more reprint from the pages of Comickazi: an exclusive, 1969 interview with artist James Bama.