Yesterday marked one year since my longtime chum, Scott Shaw!, began his Oddball Comics page over at Comic Book Resources. For 52 weeks, Monday through Friday, he has favored us with examples of some of the most bizarre comics ever published — like that Rifleman one above — accompanied by witty and informative annotation, which in turn has sparked interesting chatter on the allied Message Board.
In celebration of this grand achievement, he's invited a batch of friends, commencing with the proprietor of this here website, to pen guest entries. If you'd like to read what I handed in — a discussion of the funnybook seen above right, which was drawn by the great Curt Swan, perhaps under duress, and which is as oddball as any comic ever published — click on this link. And the latest edition of Oddball Comics (which, today only, is the same page) can be accessed by clicking here. Go there even when I don't have a guest column up.