When Ernie Colòn illustrated a Richie Rich story, readers could expect one thing in spades: Adventure! In a Colòn story, Rich became a genius boy inventor fighting crime; and Richie's butler, Cadbury, became a dashing man of action. What great stuff! This three-chapter story is from Richie Rich Success Stories No. 10, October 1966.After reading this great tale, hyperlink over to Bill White Cartoons; the blog of pal and cartoonist, Bill White; wherein Mr. White talks about meeting Ernie Colòn recently at the 2011 New York Comic Con!
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This is the first I've heard of Ernie Colon. He's great! Though I have to say that I find the 3-fingered hands a bit strange on the relatively realistic adults.
ReplyDeleteDavid: Ernie Colon drew all the the Harvey characters, but his RR stories were the best RR stories ever!
ReplyDeleteThree fingers, well, you really can't draw a Harvey character any other way!
Hilarious stuff, Mykal, and weird synchronicity too, since I'm plugging Colón's Inner Sanctum today over at the Catacombs.
ReplyDeleteWho cares how many fingers the characters have when the art is this gorgeous?! Sheesh!
ReplyDeleteAs great as Warren Kremer was (and he WAS!), nobody, but nobody, could match Ernie Colon when it came to RR adventure stories!
Chuck: I'll have to hop on over to your place, The Comic Book Catacombs, and have a look!
ReplyDeleteBill: I completely agree: Colon is King when it comes to RR!
I like his flatter-head version of RR. He looks more adorable.
ReplyDeleteSome nice work. I never was a fan of Ernie Colon's work for Warren and other horror/adventure comic books, but his cartooning is first-rate.
ReplyDeleteThe best of Ernie's Richie adventures is easily in Richie Rich Diamonds #4 where Richie encounters a mean and creepy witch named Walla.
ReplyDeleteI scanned my copy of it and posted it in my (now archived) blog.
You can read it here.
Larry T: Excellent. Thanks for the link. The more of Mr. Colòn's work there is to see, the better I like it.
ReplyDeleteKW: I agree. I think Colòn's RR had the most character.
ReplyDeleteGary: I first rate cartoonist indeed!