An Altar Boy Named Speck
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". An Altar Boy Named Speck, also known as Speck the Altar Boy, is an American gag cartoon comic strip series created by Tut LeBlanc.[1] The strip first appeared March 1, 1951 in Catholic Action of the South, which was the official paper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans.[2] Margaret Ahern continued the Speck comic upon LeBlanc's 1953 death, drawing it until 1979.
The comic is about a mischievous but lovable altar boy who keeps getting into various kinds of trouble.
Tut LeBlanc
Wilmer Ralph "Tut" LeBlanc[3] (born in Perry, Louisiana, 1915; died February 23, 1953[4]) was a self-taught artist.[1] In 1943, he married Mildred Marie Simon.[5] He drew the Speck material while living in Abbeville, Louisiana, where he had spent most of his life. He died in 1953 from heart problems that he had had since childhood.[6]
Collections
The Speck cartoons have been collected in various reprint volumes.
- LeBlanc cartoons
- An Altar Boy Named “Speck” (Lafayette, LA: Tribune Printing Plant, 1952)[7] - reprinted by Our Sunday Visitor and About Comics.[8]
- Speck: More Cartoons (Huntington, Indiana: Our Sunday Visitor, 1952)[9]
- An Altar Boy Named 'Speck': The Collection Compilation (Camarillo, CA: About Comics, 2024) - reprints both previous books as a single volume.[10]
- Ahern cartoons
- Speck the Altar Boy (Garden City, NY: Hanover House, 1958)[7]
- Presenting Speck the Altar Boy (Garden City, NY: Hanover House, 1960)[7]
- Speck: The Altar Boy (New York: All Saints Press, 1963)[7] - reprints all of the first and part of the second Hanover House volumes.
- A Speck of Trouble: New Escapades of the Inimitable and Irresistible Speck, the Altar Boy (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964)[7]
- Speck the Altar Boy: The Collection Compilation (Camarillo, CA: About Comics, 2021) - reprints both Hanover House books as a single volume.[11]
References
Notes
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- ↑ a b "Speck the Altar Boy, by Margaret Ahern," ComicStripFan.com. Accessed Dec. 31, 2018.
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