B'wana Beast.  This is a for real comic published by DC in 1967. Showcase #66 February, 1967 http://www.toonopedia.com/bwana.htm The second issue. This is good art.  That is all I got to say about this. If anyone is wondering about the Rhino/Zebra, remember that the 'helmet' lets him combine two animals and control it/them.  At this point I can't stand it any longer and wish to point out that this costume would get him arrested during Mardi Gras at any point in it's history. Freedom Beast, B'wana's replacement.  You got to be fucking kidding me.  On top of the original insult to start with, now they put a black guy in here?  In a porn outfit? Still, he kinda makes it work.  Dynamite pro wrestling get up to be sure.  Pimp my Speedos! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Beast https://braveandboldlost.blogspot.com/2015/01/bwana-beast-and-conan.html Lookin' pretty buff ...

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Frederick Wilhelm Kleukens, 1878 - 1956 Birds ABC, 1925 Birds ABC Frog Poster Bookplate, 1903 Bookplate Black Cat And Beer Das Wettlaufen zwischen dem Hasen und Swinegel in Bildern erzählt (The race between the rabbit and hedgehog is told in pictures). This is a brothers Grimm story, the hedgehog wins the race by using his wife as a double and she is always at the finish line before the hare.  The hare, infuriated, keeps running the race to prove how fast he is and dies of exhaustion.  There is a Bugs Bunny cartoon, Tortoise Beats Hare, that uses this premise. Am I the only one who thinks Grimm's tales are, well, grim? Auf Wiedersehen.

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Known as J. J., Grandville was an artist specializing in fantastic pictures and skewering the current mores.  Here is a strutting rooster.  I love the rabbit on kettledrums.  This seems to be just whimsy. The ragman.  This has no political significance that I can find. Family of Beetles.  This is not a ringing endorsement of the church. Going to the banquet.  Upper class mockery. Misery, Hypocrisy, Greed.  The aristocratic cat mourns the approaching death of his natural prey, the rat, who is dying in poverty.  A priest, a judge, and a policeman are shown as ravens waiting their turn for the spoils.  Had this not been drawn as a 'funny animal' picture the censors would have blocked the publication.    It is against the backdrop of press censorship and royal repression that Daumier created his searing indictment of an incident that occurred in Paris, April 15 1834, where a group of soldiers...

A darling cat, smaller than drawn here, has showed up at Billy's and was living by the pool.  Now he has gone from feeding her to cossetting her every time he goes outside, much to the amusement of his friends.  Billy loves cats and makes much of them, just like he feels about his friends.  Her name is Patches.  Randy Rabbit is ignoring the glorious day over the Gulf of Mexico and is watching Breaking Bad through the window, and both of these guys are 3 sheets to the wind before noon. Just another day around the hutch.

The Plague.  Arnold Bocklin, 1898. Our next stop is...    ...Isle of the Dead, 1883, third version.  Arnold Bocklin, the original party animal. Isle of the rich dead , more like.  All the rest of us go to the Everglades of the dead.  Oh, and this hung in the Obersalzberg after being acquired by that madcap Austrian art fan, A. Hitler.  Liberated from the Reich Chancellery,  1945. Vosh y Smert, Lice and Death.  The next line says Droogya - friends, and I can't read the rest.  Or I don't feel like it, same thing.  Oh, wait, here we are- Lice And Death Are Friends!  (They taint our lives, Lice and Death are sworn brothers!  Eliminate lice, the spreaders of disease!  Russian civil war era poster, 1919).  The artist is O. Grin, who spent 8 years in a camp after being accused of anti-Soviet activities.    German version. Pope Formosus and Stephen VII.  Jean-Paul Lau...