Mad Mad Modes for Moderns Mondays - Sleepwear as Depicted by Mystery Artist!

So far, most of the "Mad Mad Modes for Moderns" fashion featurettes I have shown here on Sequential Crush were illustrated by either Tony Abruzzo or Jay Scott Pike. Today I bring you a lovely two-pager from a different artist, one that I am not familiar with. This "Mad Mad Modes for Moderns" spread from Girls Romances #143 (September 1969) has a fine layout, great lettering and well drawn figures, but the name of the artist alludes me.



There were other fashion featurettes in other romance comic titles, including the following "Romance in Fashion" from Girls' Love Stories #101 (February 1964). This page "presents the work of one artist, Cynthia Chazan, Montreal, Canada" and is obviously drawn by the same artist as pictured above. Now, here is where it gets tricky. Does this mean that the actual artist who illustrated this piece was a woman named Cynthia Chazan, or does this mean that the outfits were designed by her, à la "Patsy's Pin-up Page!"

Any thoughts, romance fans?!

Help Scott Edelman Identify This British Romance Comic Book Panel!

Hi all! I hope you are having a lovely weekend! This is a very special post! Comic book writer extraordinaire, Scott Edelman needs your help! This morning on his LiveJournal blog, Scott recounts a trip to London in 1977 with his new bride, Irene Vartanoff, during which he clipped the following panel from a British romance comic.


Feeling that it was representative of their future together, Scott held onto the panel all these years in his wallet and just recently took it out. Now, he needs our help identifying what comic it came from! If you have any information that could help Scott, be sure to leave him a comment over at his site! Now that is a tale of true life romance!!!

To see more examples of British romance comics, be sure to check out the informative blog, Out of This World. You will be blow away by the gorgeous art, and happy to know DC, Marvel and Charlton weren't the only ones in on the romance game! Also, if you haven't already -- be sure to choose which "Too" story you would like to see this coming week here on Sequential Crush. You have until this evening at 9pm (Central Time) to let me know! So far, it looks like "Too Smart for Romance" is in the lead!