O.K. Comics (1972) #1-2 by Bruce Walters
Kitchen had syndicated the OK Comics strips to various underground newspapers, and the strip also showed up in (basically) all the Kitchen anthologies. So I guess it’s natural to give him a solo book.
The humour is kinda between oldee tymey gags and spaced out hippie nonsense, which isn’t totally my cup of tea, but I can see the charm. There’s also something interesting graphically about the artwork: The hatching and the bulbousness of everything.
Oh, those hippies.
Things dissolve into nothingness all of the time, but in a pleasant way.
Whoa. I love that page on the right there.
The second issue is quite different. The artwork looks more sketch like, and the stories are … er… more story like.
And we end on a bad trip.
Very odd book.
Bruce Walthers was 51 years old and the president of a corporation when he produced this one-man comic book for Kitchen Sink Enterprises.
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Walthers was a competent comic artist, but with one exception most of the strips here are quietly conventional and sometimes vacuous.
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