Piggsy Gets Radioactive! Atomic Age Funny Animal Comics

This wacked-out story about Piggsy Pig
is definitely a first…cute cartoon funny animals
playing with deadly radioactive elements!

Yes, that’s RADIUM Piggsy is reading about!

…and little Piggsy is carrying the
cancer-causing radioactive rock in his back pocket!

Here’s the whole story for your funny-animal comic book reading pleasure:

 

Click on any page for a full-sized Golden Age
funny animal comic book scan!

 

 

 

 

 

 

…and there’s even a bonus
Kiddie Kapers Game Page! Have fun!

 

 

I’m not sure who drew this Piggsy comic,

but it reminds me a lot of Super Rabbit!

 

Piggsy Pig comics are

from Kiddie Kapers #1

 

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Mister Breger and the Beaurocratic Genie

Dave Breger was the creator of the WW2-era comic strip, “Private Breger Abroad,” which later morphed into “G.I. JOE” for the U.S. Army’s own “Yank” newspaper. (Breger created the term GI Joe…but had nothing to do with the toys or cartoons that came much later)

When his character, “Private Breger” got out of the army after the war, his comic strip was reborn as “Mister Breger.”

This One-page filler comic is from the Katzenjammer Kids comic book #6, Autumn 1948

 
  

Here’s the whole page…click for a BIG version!

…and here’s a bonus page from the same comic…
”Right Around Home” by Dudley Fisher

More Vintage Articles on Cartooning and Animation

A few days ago I posted about the Modern Mechanix magazine archive -- a nifty treasure chest of vintage magazine articles about cartoons. “How Comic Cartoons Make Fortunes” was just the start of the goodies…There are a lot more where that one came from!

Real Scenery for Popeye…all about the Fleischer Studios and their 3-d rotating sets

These articles from magazines such as Popular Mechanics, Popular Science and Modern Mechanix give a perspective on the art and industry of animation and cartooning that really shows how excited people were about cartoons and the advancements in animation during the early twentieth century.

Sound Tricks of Mickey Mouse… a look at the Walt Disney Studios groundbreaking work in sound cartoons

Making of a Funny…a look at the production process of Bringing Up Father by George McManus

What Makes Mickey Mouse Move?

How Disney Combines Living Actors with His Cartoon Characters

Nutty Inventions Paid Me a Million by Rube Goldberg

The Making of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

All of these articles are scanned and posted in multiple resolutions, so you can read them on screen or download high-resolution images to print or look at later!

If you missed that post about the 1933 feature, “How Comic Cartoons Make Fortunes,” from the Modern Mechanix blog, just click on the image below…

1933: How Comic Cartoons Make Fortunes – Vintage Magazine Scans

The Modern Mechanix blog reprints many great illustrated articles from the 1930’s and 40’s. One of my favorites is this look at Depression-era income opportunities in cartooning and animation!

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/04/19/how-comic-cartoons-make-fortunes/

Click on any of the thumbnails below
to open up a crisp and clear high-resolution scan

 

ALL of these pages are available to download at SUPER-SIZE over at
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/04/19/how-comic-cartoons-make-fortunes/

  

…and aside from the great article, check out all the beautiful advertisements on these pages.

PS…there are MANY more articles on cartoons and cartooning and animation at the Modern Mechanix blog. Just click HERE to jump right over!