Woody Wednesday: Cannon

Continuing the excerpts from Wally Wood's "Cannon" for "Woody Wednesday"...

Penthouse Comix #14, "Brown's Delights": Happy Birthday, Alfonso Font!

Happy birthday to Spanish artist Alfonso Font (born August 28, 1946)! From Penthouse Comix #14, "Brown's Delights: Rebound Love." Script by Eliot R. Brown (adapting a reader's letter to Penthouse Magazine), art by Alfonso Font.

Taboo Especial, "Want": Happy Birthday, Wendy Snow-Lang!

Happy birthday to writer/artist Wendy Snow-Lang (born Aug. 27, 1957)! From Taboo Especial: "Want." Story and art by Wendy Snow-Lang.

Playboy Funnies November 1978, "Aunt Frutzi": Happy Birthday, Denis Kitchen!

Happy birthday to underground cartoonist and publisher Denis Kitchen (born August 27, 1946)! Reposting from the old Tumblr site: From the Playboy Funnies feature in the November 1978 issue of Playboy: "Aunt Frutzi," a spoof of Fritzi Ritz from the famed comic strip "Nancy." Story and art by Denis Kitchen.

Xxxenophile #7, "Rule of Three": Remembering Frank Kelly Freas' Birthday

Today would be the 97th birthday of celebrated science-fiction illustrator Frank Kelly Freas (sometimes credited simply as Kelly Freas), born August 27, 1922. Presenting one of Freas' rare forays into the comics medium, inking a story in Xxxenophile #7: "Rule of Three," story and pencils by Phil Foglio, inks by Frank Kelly Freas and Laura Freas.

Heavy Metal Monday: Dec. 1978, "Orion": Gray Morrow

From Heavy Metal Dec. 1978, "Orion." Story and art by Gray Morrow.

Heavy Metal Monday: Feb. 1979, "Sindbad": Richard Corben

Reposting from the old Tumblr site: From Heavy Metal Feb. 1979, "Sindbad in the Land of the Jinn." Story by Jan Strnad, art by Richard Corben.