{"id":1510,"date":"2010-03-22T08:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T13:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2010-03-22T08:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T13:49:00","slug":"russ-manning-on-dell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=1510","title":{"rendered":"Russ Manning on Dell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.erbzine.com\/mag8\/0830.html\">Russ Manning<\/a>, one of the great California cartoonists whose work, like his mentor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/apes2\/jessemarsh102\/\">Jesse Marsh<\/a>&#8216;s, stands apart as a West Coast alternative to the more chaotic New York-based artists, made a case for Dell as a key 20th century comic book publisher in Richard Kyle&#8217;s brilliant Wonderworld #9, (1973). The two-page article is below. One thing I enjoy about Wonderworld is that it offers an entirely different point of view on comics history &#8212; mostly avoiding superheroes and advocating for other genres and approaches in comics. Some of the artists who loomed large for Kyle, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dangheno.net\/dsinterview.htm\">Dan Spiegle<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/hairygreeneyeball.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/bernard-prince-victims.html\">Hermann<\/a> (whose two-volume Survivors album series was an early Fantagraphics project), seem largely forgotten today, but the samples published in Wonderworld offer a look at another course for character-based comics in the 70s. By the way, you can see an entire early issue of Wonderworld, when it was called Graphic Story World, over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/gallery\/v\/1971GraphicStoryWorld2\/\">Jack Kirby Museum<\/a>. Look closely for the amazing photo of Jaunty Jim Steranko.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1511\" style=\"width: 228px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dell1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1511\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1511\" title=\"Dell1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dell1.jpg?resize=218%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1511\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russ Manning text copyright Estate of Russ Manning. <\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1512\" style=\"width: 232px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dell2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1512\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1512\" title=\"Dell2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dell2.jpg?resize=222%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russ  Manning text copyright Estate of Russ Manning. <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russ Manning, one of the great California cartoonists whose work, like his mentor Jesse Marsh&#8216;s, stands apart as a West Coast alternative to the more chaotic New York-based artists, made a case for Dell as a key 20th century comic book publisher in Richard Kyle&#8217;s brilliant Wonderworld #9, (1973). The two-page article is below. One thing I enjoy about Wonderworld is that it offers an entirely different point of view [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[335,521,650,1102,1157,1384],"class_list":["post-1510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-dell","tag-graphic-story-world","tag-jesse-marsh","tag-richard-klye","tag-manning","tag-wonderworld"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}