Comic strips with climbing in 'em

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Erron

Social climber

Memphis

Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 12, 2011 - 07:04pm PT

I found a couple of threads that mentioned television cartoons, but there weren't many references to climbing.

Here's a sort of a climbing cartoon:

http://hubriscomics.com/2011/08/12/hubris-call-waiting/

Erron

Social climber

Memphis

Topic Author's Reply - Aug 13, 2011 - 01:40pm PT

Yeah, not so much with other people posting climbing cartoons.

I found another thread that mentioned William Neely and that one of his books HAS some climbing cartoons, but the comment didn't have links. I looked up the book. The kayak cartoons were funnier than the climbing cartoons.

Too bad. I thought this'd be a more entertaining thread.

philo

Trad climber

Somewhere halfway over the rainbow

Aug 13, 2011 - 01:50pm PT

Too bad. I thought this'd be a more entertaining thread.

So, you thought climbing cartoons are entertaining? HAHAHAHAHA.
Thanks for the laugh, I needed that.

o-man

Social climber

Paia,Maui,HI

Aug 13, 2011 - 03:07pm PT

Erron

Social climber

Memphis

Topic Author's Reply - Aug 13, 2011 - 03:34pm PT

NOW we're talking! These are great! And yeah, I agree with you about Wm Nealy. He was fantastic. I found his work because I kayaked. Used to find my way around with dogeared copies of his 'Whitewater Home Companion' books. I wish I could have met him. That would have been cool. I found his climbing cartoons in 'The Nealy Way of Knowledge', which was wedged in my bookshelf for years. It was nice having a reason to go find it and pick through it again. Stand by what I said- his kayak cartoons (at least in that book) seem more in tune than that climbing cartoons.

Ghost

climber

A long way from where I started

Aug 13, 2011 - 04:32pm PT

Not sure if he thought of himself as a cartoonist, or a writer of "comic strips," but Herge had it down. (Tami knows who I'm talking about) And his understanding of climbing is instantly obvious when you look at his work.

Tintin in Tibet is full of climbing, as is (I think) Prisoners of the Sun.

Fritz

Trad climber

Choss Creek, ID

Aug 13, 2011 - 05:31pm PT

How about comic books?

A classic Carl Barks story in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge # 26 June 1959

It's story has the ducks finding a treasure map in a Spanish Galleon Scrooge donated to Duckburg.

This line that has stuck with me since I first read it in 1959:

We Climb until there is more sky below us than above us.

cintune

climber

Midvale School for the Gifted

Aug 13, 2011 - 06:31pm PT

FRUMY

Trad climber

SHERMAN OAKS,CA

Aug 13, 2011 - 08:08pm PT

Tami what do you mean who Knew Weld_it is D man's man.
I don't know bout you folks up in the white north -- but down here he has it covered.

Erron

Social climber

Memphis

Topic Author's Reply - Aug 13, 2011 - 08:08pm PT

I was going to post some TIntin and make nice compliments about Herge, but now it's done already.

Fritz

Trad climber

Choss Creek, ID

Aug 13, 2011 - 08:29pm PT

Tami: Re

Scrooge McDuck has dodgy technique

Are you suggesting he??? climbs like a duck??

Isn't that a inter-species ethnophaulism?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs

Wow! I thought you were open-minded.

Jest having fun.

philo

Trad climber

Somewhere halfway over the rainbow

Aug 13, 2011 - 09:35pm PT

LoL Tami

FRUMY

Trad climber

SHERMAN OAKS,CA

Aug 13, 2011 - 10:38pm PT

Tami --- my bad. I should have known that even in the great white north that Weld_it's far seeing truths are self evident.

Fritz

Trad climber

Choss Creek, ID

Aug 13, 2011 - 11:53pm PT

More from the Scrooge McDuck by Carl Barks tale. I have not posted the first few cartoons of where Scrooge and the nephews find the Pizzaro-era treasure map to the "Lost Gold mines of the Incas."

A great Carl Barks story from 1959: that has stayed with me all these years.

Here's the adventurous part of the tale!

MH2

climber

Aug 13, 2011 - 11:57pm PT

Go Fritz!

Do you remember an earlier one where Scrooge shaped his cash stash into the Matterhorn?

Fritz

Trad climber

Choss Creek, ID

Aug 14, 2011 - 12:13am PT

MH2. Wow! I don't have that one and never read it.

Carl Barks stories are "the bomb."

He wrote a bunch of "Duck Adventures" in the late 40's and 50's.

Besides the story I am posting----the one that stands out in my memory is Scrooge and his equally rich rival (Flintheart Glomgold) settling the question of "who is the richest duck on Earth" by unrolling their 6' thick balls of saved string up through the wilds of South Africa.

A tale that Fatradd would enjoy!