As you well know if you have a brain in that head of yours, my pal Scott Shaw! is not only an acclaimed cartoonist. He's also a mock-serious historian of the weirdest comic books ever produced. Some are odd commercial endeavors. Others are mainstream funnybooks that cause one to wonder if the editors and creators really paused to consider what they were editing and creating. Scott has amassed tons of these things he calls Oddball Comics and every so often at some comic convention, he presents a slide show of them, accompanied by witty and semi-informative commentary.
Beginning next month, he takes his act to the Acme Comedy Theatre in the heart of Hollywood for a number of Saturday evenings. If you can possibly make it there, you'll have a very good time. Here's a link to the info on how you can get there and have that very good time.
By the way: I picked three Oddball Comics from Scott's online column to adorn this piece and I picked them almost at random. But once I got them up there, I realized there was perhaps a subtle message being conveyed. If we'd elected Barry Goldwater, we'd have had an atomic war and we'd learn thereafter to vote for Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters. Or something like that.