Comments on: John Philip Dalby: Musician, Storyteller, Artist (would this post get more traffic if I said it had COMIC STRIPS?)

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:27:41 +0000

Derrill, I’m so tickled that you found this. I didn’t know how to go about finding any Dalby family members. I had hoped you-all wouldn’t mind that I was posting your father’s strips, even in the low-quality scans of photocopies of microfilm — they’re simply wonderful, and I hoped to create some interest and a market for a real reprint.

If I can help at all, especially if I can give some publicity to a quality publication (whether paper or CD), I hope you’ll let me do that. I can be reached either by a comment here or by writing to AEParshall {at} AOL {dot} com.

By: Derrill Dalby

Derrill Dalby — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 13:15:24 +0000

Well, I wish I had been “plugged-in” to all this sooner. I have had a restored, complete (as published) press-ready + PDF CD since 2002, but didn’t know what to do with it. The recent Sunstone article by Ardis Parshall may revive some interest in seeing it published – all 313 panels. My mother, who lives in Salt Lake, would be very pleased to know of all this attention. I can hardly wait to tell her! — Oldest son, now 65 himself, Derrill Dalby.

By: Johnna

Johnna — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:46:06 +0000

Wow. Before Mike Allred.

By: Th.

Th. — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 05:17:16 +0000

Now that I’m home and can see photobucket images I have to say I love these.

By: Th.

Th. — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:26:38 +0000

. Clark---do you know for sure if they were done by Robert Barrett? My wife and I have had long conversations trying to decide if it is him or someone very similar. I say yes. She says no. She actually took a class from him so I would love to be right. And Ardis---once again you prove you know everything. I knew this guy existed but was unable to find him when I wrote my comics survey for Motley Vision. This is not the first time you've known something I've been unable to figure out. I really need to learn to ask you questions.

By: Armand Mauss

Armand Mauss — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:52:58 +0000

Thanks for passing this along, Ardis! It brought back memories. I knew the Dalby family in Walnut Creek, CA, for a few years between 1960 and 1965. Phil (as John Phillip was called then)was the President of Diablo Valley College in nearby Pleasant Hill, and he hired me as a social science instructor (without knowing me as LDS, I think). He later went on to the presidency of a community college in the Cleveland (OH) area, where Derrill (one of his sons) still lives, I think. Derrill and his younger brother used to baby-sit for us in Walnut Creek when our kids were little. I knew about Phil’s academic background in music, of course (though he had moved to academic administration where the money is much better), but I didn’t know about his drawing talent. He never revealed it, as far as I know, when he lived in Walnut Creek. Anyway, thanks for the memories and the additional biographical information on someone whom I admired (as I did Barbara and the family). Small world indeed!

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:42:54 +0000

Wow, how had I never heard of this before?

By: Clark

Clark — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:03:46 +0000

Music and art. What a talented individual. In your list of BoM ilustrators, don’t forget Robert Barrett, who painted the pictures for the official “Book of Mormon Reader”

By: Last Lemming

Last Lemming — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:30:52 +0000

The COMIC STRIPS teaser got my attention, but I find I’m in the same boat as Coffinberry and must wait till I get home to look at them.

But I can tell those who care that Max Dalby played the clarinet. I took lessons from him for a while, but don’t ask him about it because I was one of those students he probably wanted to forget.

By: Researcher

Researcher — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:18:29 +0000

I see from an obit that Max was his brother.

My boys are interested in these comics, the girls not so much.