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Basil Wolverton’s Culture Corner
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Here are some helpful instructions on how to perform everyday tasks in a cultured manner, courtesy comic book master Basil Wolverton. This feature ran in Whiz Comics from 1945 to 1952, and I believe they have never been reprinted.
Too much of Wolverton’s work has yet to be reprinted, including many of his Powerhouse Pepper stories and his classic sci-fi series Spacehawk. Fantagraphics Books is reprinting his illustrated bible this year, though, so that’s a good start.
You can view each strip separately, or scroll to the bottom for the combined strips in Comic Book Archive or PDF format.
- How to Improve Your Posture
- How to Stop Brooding if Your Ears Are Protruding
- How to Kick a Person in the Teeth
- How to Sit on a Tack
- How to Cure Flat Feet
- How to Eat Soup Without Slurping
- How to Tweak a Beak
- How to Boot a Fly Off Your Snoot
- How to Sharpen a Pencil
- How to Contemplate the Back of Your Pate
- How to Fall on Your Face
- How to Eat Beans Without Soiling Your Jeans
- How to Laugh at a Bum Joke
- How to Go Soak Your Head
- How to Scratch Your Back
- How to Eat Crackers in Bed
- How to Put a Wave in Your Hair
- How to Keep Your Sox Up
- How to Snore Without Being a Bore
- How to Wear a Tight Collar
- How to Save Your Sox
- How to Get Your Beard Sheared
- How to Get a Stamp Damp
- How (Not) to Reel on a Banana Peel
- How to Peer at a Parade
- How to Extricate Your Upper Plate
- How to Double Your Bubble Gum Bubble
- How to Bedeck a Barren Bean
- How to Chomp Food Without Being Rude
- How to Get Clean Behind Your Bean
- How to Sneeze Without a Breeze
- How to Sharpen Your Wits
- How to Cool Your Gruel
- How to Cross a Busy Street
- How to Keep a Cool Conk
- How to Keep a Chill from Your Bill
- How to Elevate Your Pate
- How to Keep Your Knees from Knocking
- How to Bow
- How to Lift Your Lid
- How to Block a Back Slapper’s Sock
- How to Count to a Large Amount
- How to Bite a Hot Dog Right
- How to Clap Without Mishap
- How to See TV
- How to Be Particular and Sit Perpendicular
- How to Care for Your Hair
- How to Make Your Head Comfortable in Bed
- How to Press Your Pants
- How to Grope for Bathtub Soap
- collected strips (Comic Book Archive)
- collected strips (PDF)
Although this is the bulk of the “Culture Corner strips”, there are a few I’ve not been able to find, so unfortunately you’ll have to wait to learn how to cut your own hair, how to mat your hair down flat, and how to open a sticky window in the cultured fashion.
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[...] Culture Corner, which ran in Whiz Comics from 1945 to 1952, a few times in the past. Now Dinosaur Gardens has collected quite a few (all ?) of these delightfully absurd strips in one handy pdf or cbz [...]
By More Culture Corner | The Ephemerist on 2009-03-26 2.45 am
[...] A big bunch of brilliant How-to’s like you’ve never, ever seen. [...]
By Deluded? Out of My Mind 26 March 2009 « Out Of My Mind on 2009-03-26 5.11 am
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