Did you understand the title of this blog post? Probably not, unless you speak Mangani, the official language of Tarzan and his childhood custodians, the great apes. (For the record, it means: "Beware, a tall great ape kills," which is an especially useful phrase to look out for if you find yourself at cross-purposes with an angry great ape in his/her natural habitat). When I was looking up something in Tarzan-speak, I found this extensive Tarzan Dictionary, which will surely come in handy for anyone wanting to instant message / write poetry in a fairly obscure tongue.
While virtually everyone of legal reading age has heard of Edgar Rice Burroughs' famous character, not everyone is aware just how many of Tarzan's adventures are available for free on GoComics. All of the strips on the site are Tarzan classics (i.e. comics from another decade), but the Sundays are a bit more recent. The Tarzan Sunday newspaper strip made its debut in March of 1931 and continued into the '90s. Through my editing duties, I've caught a glimpse of some of the upcoming storylines, and they're pretty korak*.
While we're on the subject of Tarzan, there's one more game I'd like to share with you and invite you to play as well. It consists of taking the final panel from the August 8, 2012 strip and pasting it on to the end of other 3- or 4-panel newspaper comics. I've found that virtually any comic can be drastically dramatized by doing so. If you've got any examples, just send me the file (lwetzel at amuniversal.com) and we'll post the highlights in the next couple of weeks. Here's the image:
*killer
"The Tarzan Sunday newspaper strip...continued into the '90s".
A bit longer - it made it into the 21st Century.
Here, courtesy of ERBzine, is the last 6 months of the Sunday Tarzan: http://www.erbzine.com/mag34/3492.html
Posted by: D.D.Degg | January 11, 2013 at 08:00 PM
Why is a guy who lives in the jungle so clean shaven and has his hair perfectly cut and styled?
Posted by: justaskin' | January 12, 2013 at 09:55 AM
Another cool comic on GoComics. I read every ERB I could get my hands on as a kid. Korak, by the way, is the Son of Tarzan (book four, I think). That's as far as my Tarzan lingo goes (except Sabor, for Lion, because that's what I named my cat).
Posted by: Stephen Beals | January 13, 2013 at 03:14 PM
This Tarzan picture story, i like it very much, who can give the link of full story?
Posted by: Design | January 14, 2013 at 04:42 AM
@ Mr. Degg: Thanks for the clarification as to how long the strip ran -- I think the ones distributed by United Features (the ones on GoComics) ended in the nineties. Will definitely be delving into those more recent adventures.
@Stephen: You are more fluent in Tarzan lingo than approx. 99.9% of the general population
@justaskin': That's an excellent question. The truth is we don't -- and may never -- know
Posted by: Lucas | January 14, 2013 at 09:43 AM
Through my editing duties, I've caught a glimpse of some of the upcoming storylines, and they're pretty korak*.
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Posted by: Mickie Higdon | January 15, 2013 at 02:04 AM
Tarzan, the hero in my childhood. Looking forward to more stories.
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