FOUR COLOR #1031 "Fury" Art by Tom Gill

Saved From the Paper Drive, a blog with not only cool stuff on it but also with the coolest name, showcases some scans from Dell's comic book FOUR COLOR #1031, September 1959. FOUR COLOR was a long-running comic book series that featured different stories each month. This month: a story based on the NBC TV series "Fury," a Western that ran for five years beginning in 1955. A pre-Mission Impossible Peter Graves starred in the show, which focussed on the life of a boy and his horse.

The script is by the prolific Peter S. Newman, with art by my friend Tom Gill. Tom was a go-to guy at Dell when it came to Westerns. His studio was producing Dell's LONE RANGER comic book.

Go read "The Three-Toed Killer" at the Saved From the Paper Drive blog.

From the archives:

Tom Gill: How to Pace a Comic Strip Story

THE ADVENTURES OF BRAINS BENTON by Tom Gill

Daylight Savings Time Business Cartoon

Cartoonist Scott Adams on Why Passion is Often Overrated

DILBERT cartoonist Scott Adams' latest book, HOW TO FAIL AT ALMOST EVERYTHING AND STILL WIN BIG: Kind of the Story of My Life, is his "most personal" and was written to "help readers navigate life." He is interviewed by Patrick Gillooly of the MonsterWorking blog:

Monster: Employers are looking to hire passionate employees. Yet you say that passion is overrated (you actually use a more descriptive word.) Should both parties rethink the concept? 

Adams: Successful people like to say their secret to success is passion. In my experience, success requires energy, a good strategy, hard work, and a lot of luck. If your plan starts to make you rich, you’ll probably be passionate about it. But passion generally follows success; it doesn’t cause it. I think successful people say passion is the key to success because almost any other answer sounds arrogant. 

I know a guy who got rich selling doorknobs. Was he passionate about doorknobs? Probably not. He was just a smart guy with a good plan and enough energy to make it happen. And I assume there was some luck along the way. No passion required.