the love that dare not speak its name except in certain places

[davemerrill]

There's this girl named Joey, see, and she starred in a comic feature as part of 16 Magazine's spinoff "Spec", drawn by the great Ernie Colon!



I love the breezy, delicate linework; Colon makes it look easy and even the outlandish 70s fashions come out lookin' fine. The story, on the other hand, it is a little off-putting. See for yourself at this week's Stupid Comics!

This isn't the first time we've featured "A Girl Named Joey", but this one is actually the goofiest in terms of what happens and what this story is telling the barely pubescent audience to do with their rampaging chemical urges that so far have only expressed themselves in hanging pinups of Donny Osmond. This one is from 1973, our first story was from 1970, that means Colon spent at least three years on this strip. Two pages a month, that's at least 72 extant pages of "A Girl Named Joey". I wonder who owns the rights to this strip? 16 Magazine, I suppose.

Comments

[hipsterdad.livejournal.com]

Objection! That's not Jackie Jokers, that's Mike from The Tomorrow People.

[davemerrill.livejournal.com]

You never see those two in the same place at the same time, do you? Think about it.

[hooverdam.livejournal.com]

That's Justin Bieber!

[sobieniak.livejournal.com]

Not that I ever want to have an "A Girl Named Joey" TPB, but if it came to that, I wouldn't mind checking that out.