Talk:It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken

Untitled
Is the 'if' really lowercase? It shouldn't be in a title. Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 14:56, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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Title
Hi, I'm not really up on wiki article editing rules and style, but the phrase "it's a good life, if you don't weaken" appears in Graham Greene's story "The Basement Room" (1936) which you can see here. "The Basement Room" was adapted into the film The Fallen Idol and the phrase appears in the film as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.44.203.7 (talk) 23:26, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Another thought on the source of the book's title: could it be a reference to old-time cartoonist Gene Byrnes' strip It's a Great Life If You Don't Weaken (1917–1920), which went on to become his long-running strip Reg'lar Fellers? Seems like the kind of thing Seth would've done... -- stoshmaster (talk) 04:07, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
 * It's been mentioned, but I can't find a source that explicitly says Seth picked it up from there. Curly "JFC" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 06:15, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Sources?
Maybe?
 * Chronic'Art (en français)
 * Premiere (en français) Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 10:25, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

The Famous Eleven
This is a great article! I'm fascinated by the editing process that J Milburn and Curly Turkey went through to make it so strong.

I wish there was a place to list the 11 cartoons Seth created to showcase "Kalo"'s only known published cartoons:
 * Boy Scout and escaped convict, Modern Mechanix (May 1937)
 * Former Miss Oklahomas, Collier's (May 1947)
 * Making up couple, Cartoon Laughs (Fall 1948)
 * Drunk with power, Cartoon Laughs (Fall 1948)
 * Boy Scout crossing the street, Cartoon Laughs (Fall 1948)
 * Gender-confused Eskimos, The Saturday Evening Post (January 1951)
 * Cop and underwear-wearing man, The New Yorker (April 1951)
 * Solitude-seeking son, Esquire (October 1954)
 * Sexy wanted poster, Gee-Whiz (September 1956)
 * Angry priest, Weekend Magazine (1961)
 * The Great Wowini, Popular Cartoons (June 1978)

I've found no evidence of a Cartoon Laughs magazine that was publishing in 1948; I have found a Cartoon Laughs published by Marvel from July 1962 - October 1975. Similarly, Gee-Whiz appears to have been published by Martin Goodman's Magazine Management from September 1955 - June 1967. Finally, Popular Cartoons was published by Marvel from January 1968 - July 1981.

It would be interesting to know which real cartoons from these magazines Seth replaced with his "Kalo" cartoons... -- stoshmaster (talk) 16:27, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
 * stoshmaster: Where did you hear Seth "replaced" any of these cartoons? I thought he just faked them all—at least, I don't recall coming across a source that said otherwise. Curly "JFC" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 22:52, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Curly Turkey: What I mean is, in some of the magazine clippings Seth shows in the book, there is (what I presume) actual text from the relevant magazines (articles, advertisements, and so forth). I presume that Seth covered over existing cartoons in those issues with the new ones he created on behalf of Kalo.
 * I also would love to know whose photograph that is which supposedly portrays Jack Kalloway in the book... -- stoshmaster (talk) 15:24, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
 * It'd be nice to know, but I don't know of an WP:RS that says. Curly "JFC" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 23:43, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

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