Ozark Ike

Ray Gotto wrote and drew all fifteen issues of Ozark Ike, a Pines comic that ran from 1948 to 1952. The series follows the rural adventures of its good-natured, strong-jawed title character, offering a slice of folksy Americana during the postwar comic boom. Its consistent, single-creator vision makes it a tidy example of the kind of unpretentious, character-driven humor comic that filled newsstands at midcentury.