My friend Mike Peacock was nice enough to invite me to guest-ramble on his strangely-named Count Dante's Black Dragin Soctiety Ad-Cast (I didn't ask) this week, a comic book podcast that looks at the stuff other shows ignore: Ads! But while Mike of course brought a couple of good ol' American comics to the conversation, I decided to give him a taste of what comic book ads might be like for a French-Canadian boy like me! Indeed, I pulled out 1) a homegrown Canadian comic, Captain Canuck #7; and 2) a French comic, Pif Gadget #378. Seeing as the ads in these will be alien to many listeners, they follow below.
So go ahead and listen to
Ad-Cast Episode 4 with these visual aids. You'll find it
HERE.
From Captain Canuck #7:
From Pif Gadget #378:
Jealous of the French kids who could mail out for this thing... Anyway, hope you like the show. I had fun recording it.
Comments
I like the want ads in the French comic; two guys looking for info on UFOs/flying saucers ... they should've written to each other. (Maybe that's how the Lone Gunmen got started?) I also like the guy who's looking for a pearl grey poodle--not white, not black, pearl grey. I bet he was looking after one for somebody and lost it.
Mike W.
Captain Canuck I mean, not the pearl-gray poodle.