“Put on that tape!”

§ April 16th, 2025 § Filed under scans § 9 Comments


from Mothers Against Drunk Driving’s Friends Keep Friends Alive! 1989 educational comic

9 Responses to ““Put on that tape!””

  • Sean Mageean says:
    April 16, 2025 at 12:17 AM

    Who did the art? It kinda looks like Vince Colletta inks over Frank Springer pencils…

  • Mikester says:
    April 16, 2025 at 12:50 AM

    Not sure. No credits in the comic, no listing on the Grand Comics Database, and didn’t find anything via the Googles.

  • Snark Shark says:
    April 16, 2025 at 12:56 AM

    “Now, THIS one is the Grateful Dead! So we’re going to need some LSD. BUT NO BOOZE!”

    “Vince Colletta inks over Frank Springer pencils”

    Kinda does! kinda ARCHIE looking also.

  • Franklin Colletta says:
    April 16, 2025 at 6:45 AM

    Correct! Not absolutely sure about the pencils but Vinnie did ink this story. One of the other images appears in my book, DRAWN TO BEAUTY!

  • Mike Loughlin says:
    April 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM

    I turned 12 in 1989. I had a boom box/ tape deck. I don’t remember it looking so much like a cutesy alien sidekick from a low budget ’80s sci-fi show.

  • LouReedRichards says:
    April 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM

    @Snark Shark
    I was going to make a similar comment! *
    Get out of my head! :P

    @Mike Loughlin
    I hope your cassette tapes at least turned into panthers and birds of prey.

    @Franklin Colletta
    I’ll be the first to admit I’ve said some harsh things about your father’s inks over Kirby. That said, I thought he meshed wonderfully with Gil Kane and similar artists who worked in a more linear, controlled style. There are a couple of Flash issues from the early ’70s with Kane/Colletta art that made me reappraise your dad’s work. Do you know of other times they collaborated?

    *Love, Love, Love the Dead (well ’69-’74 and bits thereafter,) but the two shows I saw of theirs in the 90’s were two or the worst concerts I’ve ever been to.

    Of course, my friends who were tripping and didn’t even like the Dead LOVED the shows…

  • LouReedRichards says:
    April 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM

    I should add that I thought Colletta’s inks on Thor helped give it a mythic vibe that felt well suited for the material.
    When I picture Thor it’s a Kirby/Colletta Thor I see.

  • Sean Mageean says:
    April 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM

    Actually, beyond Frank Springer, the pencil art looks like it could have been by Bob Oksner or Henry Scarpelli, as they both drew teen humor comics at one time.

    @ Franklin Colletta

    Have you done any merchandising of your father’s Romance Comics art? I guess the Atlas/Marvel stuff is owned by Disney–but I would imagine that any other art he did for other companies in the late ’40s and ’50s (beyond Marvel or DC) which are now defunct, that you could merchandise those covers or panels of interior art on t-shirts, coffee mugs, beach towels, etc.

    Maybe you could even have limited edition silkscreen prints, or silkscreen vintage Colletta Romance covers on canvases like Andy Warhol and other Pop artists did in the ’60s.

  • Oliver says:
    April 18, 2025 at 8:55 AM

    Eddie Campbell championed Colletta’s romance comics, and rightly so. Were the deadlines less of a crunch earlier in his career?

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