Friday, October 8, 2010

Sweet cabin dreams

As a thirteen og fourteen year old kid I read a story in an EC comic book about a guy who enters his cabin to find a half naked broad standing in front of his fire place. The story was called "Came the Dawn", written by Al Feldstein and drawn by Wallace Wood.

I remember looking at that girl with the bedsheet wrapped around her, and thinking man, I need to get a cabin when I grow up.

The story ends horribly, as stories in EC comics normally would. But that first part, with the pipe-smoking, manly hunter getting to know that cute, curvy girl way out in the forest played quite often in my hormone-powered inner cinema.

Turns out Frank Frazetta, the inspirer of legions of airbrush-weilding van decorators, did some sketches for a possible "re-make" of the story (a sample, above and below). A lot of what Frazetta did in his career was pretty awfully silly but the guy could draw.

The whole story by Feldstein/Wood, as well as Frazettas drawings, can be found here.

Apart from all that taxidermic stuff, I feel both Frazetta's and Woods' drawings actually do come pretty close to describing what it's like around my place.

Lucky me.

5 comments:

Oldfool said...

I was quite a comic book fan from about 11 to 14 years old but you are right they seem pretty silly now. I have some more adult versions from the hippy era of late 60's to mid 70's and the drawings in some of them are really works of art. I don't recognize Frazetta's name but the drawing style looks familiar so I guess I've seen it before.
I like the suggestive last drawing in your post. Plenty of detail in the picture but the main detail is in your mind. That is art.

coastkid said...

thats a nice post...
when your single reading things like this makes you hopefull again!

Andy in Germany said...

Good to see you posting again...

Those are some pretty odd storylines. I wonder at the underlying idea too- that somehow by being out in the woods you're more vulnerably to casual attacks from passing maniacs- because of course that's where all armed criminally insane escapees end up, and rapidly develop advanced survival skills and the ability to track down city folk wandering about.

Mr. Beer N. Hockey said...

The guy in Frazetta's drawing sure looks a lot like a healthy Neal Casady.

Northmark said...

Hey, thanks for the comments! Some sterling observations here.