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January 25, 2014 by tomdalzell

Bud Plant Comics

I know that if I try to assign a genre to these comics I will fail.  And be shredded by Those Who Know What I Don’t Know.  Fantasy?  Science fiction?   Speculative fiction?   Certainly not the sex and drugs of Donahue, not the beatification of freaks.  But – cool, no?

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I showed my friend these photos.  He was listening to “She’s Leaving Home” from Sergeant Pepper.  He showed me this photo:

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“Her name is Sheila Bromberg.  She played harp on ‘She’s Leaving Home.’  I think I’m in love.”  I wonder if he understood that the photo was taken in 1967, 47 years ago.  I am never sure about my friend and time.  He has a tendency of ignoring time.   I told him I’d help him try to track her down and asked for his opinion of the Bud Plant comics covers:

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