Jay Kinney's "Too Real"

There is no shortage of prognosticators in our society today, soapbox sages who describe at length the bleak dystopian future facing humanity. I am more interested in people like writer and cartoonist Jay Kinney, who accurately predicted the troubles of today more than thirty years ago. Case in point: "Too Real," created for the premiere issue of Anarchy Comics (Sept 1978, Last Gasp) . Follow the adventures of Normal Joe and his family as their American Dream turns into a nightmare. Too bad stuff like this wasn't in our school textbooks.





Jay Kinney is here.

Jack Kamen's "Payoff Blues"

Jack Kamen was an artist very closely associated with EC's legendary horror comics, but this tale of crooks and spooks appeared in Fiction House's Ghost Comics #6 (Spring 1953). The artist id was provided by Frank Motler at GCD. Interesting use of blues music in a horror story.
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