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Swearing off of Obsessive-Compulsive Link Blogging

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I’ve recently realized (and you have probably noticed if you follow this blog) that I can no longer keep up with the kind of thoroughly obsessive-compulsive linkblogging that I managed to provide for about a year-and-a-half… which was a pretty insane thing to even attempt to provide in retrospect… it almost drove me mad! There is simply too much wonder and novelty out there to even attempt share it all with you anymore. It was a good run! Hope you will stay with me, nevertheless.

So, anyhow, my HEY! KIDS! COMICS! and Interesting Links posts will no longer provide enormous lists of things for you to check out… they will simply be links to occasional random things that I feel like blathering on about.

For those of you who check out my blog for the express purpose of checking out the huge lists of links that I am no longer providing… here is an opml file of the sites I currently subscribe to for comic scans. If you use this to subscribe to them all, you will get much the same thing as what I used to provide here in those posts. In addition, here are some individual links to RSS feeds (rather than the sites) for the blogs I have been regularly linking to. If you are not currently following blogs with a newsreader, you should really consider looking into it… I highly recommend Google Reader for this purpose.

SUBSCRIPTION FEEDS OF STWALLSKULL’S TOP SIXTEEN BLOGS FOR COMIC SCANS:

ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project Blog
Barnacle Press
Comicrazys
Cool-Mo-Dee
Fortress Of Fortitude
Golden Age Comic Book Stories
Hairy Green Eyeball (recently moved here)
I Love Comix
Mark Kausler’s CatBlog
Nedor-A-Day
Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
Stripper’s Guide
The Crosseyed Cyclops
THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
Those Fabuleous Fifties
Yesterday’s Papers

SUBSCRIPTION FEEDS OF STWALLSKULL’S BIG LIST OF COMIC SCAN BLOGS (also available in OPML download):

Again With the Comics
Agence eureka
Alternative ComiX
ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project Blog
Barnacle Press
Bear Alley
Beautiful Balloons with Maggie Thompson
Behind the counter comics
Blimey! It’s another blog about comics!
Cartoon SNAP
Cartoons, Model Sheets & Stuff
Classic Cartoons
Cole’s Comics
Comic Book Resources Presents… Comics Should Be Good!
Comic Books Are Interesting Except When They Are Not Interesting
Comic Strip Library News
Comicrazys
Comics Down Under
Comics en extinción
Comics Scans: Where Comics Are Scanned
Cool-Mo-Dee
Covered
cul de sac
Cul de Sac – GoComics.com
Daily Scans
datajunkie
Dickie Dare by Milton Caniff
Diversions of the Groovy Kind
Dr Hermes Retro-Scans
Drex Files
Easily Mused
Electric Cabinet
Ethan Persoff
Filboid Studge
Fortress Of Fortitude
Freshman for Life
Geeklog Site: Oddball Comics
Golden Age Comic Book Stories
Golden Reading
Goofbutton
Hairy Green Eyeball (recently moved here)
headsOnBoards in Joyville
Henry Comics
I Love Comix
I Love Comix – Abbie Slats
I Love Comix – Blondie
I Love Comix – Buck Rogers
I Love Comix – Buz Sawyer
I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
I Love Comix – Kerry Drake
I Love Comix – Mickey Finn
I Love Comix – Moon Mullins
I Love Comix – Mr Punch
I Love Comix – Nancy
I Love Comix – Private Breger Abroad
I Love Comix – Red Ryder
I Love Comix – The Newfangles (Mom ‘n Pop)
I Love Comix – Winnie Winkle
ILLUSTRATION ART
Latigo by Stan Lynde
Looky
lowbright
Magic Carpet Burn
Male Call by Milton Caniff
Mandrake The Magician
Mark Kausler’s CatBlog
Mattias Inks
Misce-Looney-ous
Nedor-A-Day
Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
Peripecias de Chiquirritipis
Peter Gray’s Cartoons and Comics
Photos from featherbed
Pogo In Pandemonia
Popeye Animator ID
Punch in Canada
Ramapith: David Gerstein’s Prehistoric Pop Culture Blog
Rodney Bowcock’s Comics & Stories
Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities
Scans Daily
SCREW Magazine Cover Art
Sekvenskonst
Sequential Crush
Simon and Kirby – Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center
Spectorphile
Stanley Stories
Steve Canyon by Milton Caniff
Storyboards & Comps dot Com
Stripper’s Guide
Sweater Thieves
TAGTOONZ
ThadBlog
The Barnacle Blog
The Comic Book Catacombs
The Crib Sheet
The Crosseyed Cyclops
The Greatest Ape
The Harvey Kurtzman Collection
THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
The Magic Whistle
The Olden Age
The Pictorial Arts
Those Fabuleous Fifties
Thrilling Adventures!
Today’s Inspiration
TOMB IT MAY CONCERN – David Zuzelo Scribbles on Mangled Media!
Top Shelf 2.0 Webcomics
Töpfferiana
Uncle Ernie’s Creature Ink
Uncle John’s Crazy Town
Vintage Kids’ Books My Kid Loves
Vintage Story Books
Viñetas
What once was, once again Is!
Yesterday’s Papers
Yesterday’s Papers
Yesterday’s Papers Archive

INTERESTING LINKS: Pocket Cartoon Course at Scary Terry’s World & Good Time to Donate to The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library: June 17th, 2009

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On his Scary Terry’s World blog, cartoonist Terry Beatty has posted a wonderful little instructional booklet from 1943 called Pocket Cartoon Course. If you can identify the artist who drew it, he would like to know. Go check it out!

Terry has apparently been digging through his collections and plans on sharing more cool old stuff… like this great Nell Brinkley cartoon, for example.

ALSO OF NOTE:

Allan Holtz at the Stripper’s Guide blog notes that now is a very good time to give to The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library, which, by all accounts, has the most fantastic collection of comic art in the world:

The Ohio State University’s Cartoon Research Library has been given a $1 million gift by Jeanne Schulz (widow of Charles) for the renovation of a desperately needed larger facility for their ever-expanding holdings. This is great news. Even better, though is that Jeanne has pledged up to another $2.5 million dollars in matching funds for other donations to the library. In other words, for every dollar you give, Jeanne will match it with a buck of her own. Everything you can afford to give will go twice as far!

Here is a video on the subject, with a glimpse at their incredible holdings:

What are you waiting for?

Read more about this opportunity on the Stripper’s Guide blog here.

INTERESTING LINKS: Mars Attacks! May 27th, 2009

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The Golden Age Comic Book Stories blog has posted some nice scans of the complete series of the notorious and gleefully gruesome Mars Attacks! cards painted by Norm Saunders and Bob Powell (the inspiration for the Tim Burton movie of the same name), as well as the roughs for the cards drawn by Wally Wood and Bob Powell.

INTERESTING LINKS: Scalia’s Privacy Invaded: May 5th, 2009

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Happy Cinco De Mayo!

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Boing Boing had a post today about some brilliant students who, in reaction to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia questioning the need for more privacy protections, have provided Scalia with a 15-page dossier documenting his personal information.

His class turned in a 15-page dossier that included not only Scalia’s home address, home phone number and home value, but his food and movie preferences, his wife’s personal e-mail address and photos of his grandchildren, reports Above the Law.

Wouldn’t it be great if someone performed the same service for all the Supreme Court justices, congresspeople and senators? I imagine it would change a lot of minds about the necessity of legal privacy protection (at least for those in political office).

Pictured above, some guy on the left with Scalia on the right, in one of the numerous photos you can find of the ugly bastard on flickr… this one picked for it’s creative commons license which allows me the right to post it here. They are watching you, Mr. Scalia.

INTERESTING LINKS: Chris Ware/Andrew Bird Quimby the Mouse Video: May 4th, 2009

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My good friends at Big Time Attic called my attention to this wonderful little animation of Chris Ware’s Quimby the Mouse set to music by Andrew Bird, apparently done for This American Life.

Quimby The Mouse from This American Life on Vimeo.

INTERESTING LINKS: Smiths : May 1st, 2009

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I’ve talked about the brilliant Patrick Smith before (here, here, and here), and he has a new game called WINDOSILL that is, of course, amazing and beautiful. Click the image to go there. Found courtesy of Boing Boing Offworld.

Another Smith was called to my attention courtesy of the Boing Boing media empire; here’s Kevin Smith’s hilarious story of how his Superman movie didn’t get made:

INTERESTING LINKS: Baby Secrets : April 24th, 2009

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The Vintage Ads community on LiveJournal linked to a hilarious and creepy toy ad for “Baby Laugh-A-Lot,” which you can go see here.

That reminded me of a hilariously creepy doll that I have down in my basement (which is the best place to keep such things, of course), that goes by the handle of Baby Secrets. I can only imagine how many nightmares were induced by this child’s toy… it probably would have set a record if Guinness could keep track of such things.

Our first Baby Secrets broke, but we loved her so much we actually bought a second one on Ebay. With the second one we realized Baby Secrets had a secret… she gives different messages when you press her hand than when you press her tummy (we hadn’t known about the hand trigger).

You too can horrify your friends with this treasure, thanks to Ebay. Doubt you’ll have to pay more than ten bucks for one any time soon, either.

It is also worth noting that when Baby Secrets “whispers,” you can hear her across the room… so don’t tell her anything you wouldn’t want everyone to know!

I decided to check and see if there were any ads for her out on the internet. Indeed there are some. Here they are for your viewing pleasure…

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BABY SECRETS

INTERESTING LINKS: Vote for Yo Gabba Gabba! in the Webbys; and The Son of a Preacher Man, Courtesy of Boing Boing: April 21st, 2009

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My good friends at Puny Entertainment have received two very well-deserved nominations for Webby awards for their brilliant work on the Yo Gabba Gabba! website (they also do most of the animation for the tv show). You should do yourself a favor and check out the website, get blown away, and then go vote for them! Yo Gabba Gabba! is in the “Television” and “Celebrity/Fan” categories.

VOTE HERE!

also:

Howwy Ghowst Powa! Courtesy of Boing Boing.

INTERESTING LINKS: Skip Williamson’s Comics and Stories : April 16th, 2009

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Underground cartoonist Skip Williamson (best known for Snappy Sammy Smoot) has one hell of an interesting blog at Salon.com (you can subscribe here). I believe the stories from it are at least partially from an autobiography he wrote or is in the process of writing, although that may not be the case. Note that Williamson has another blog called My Bitter Agenda here as well.

INTERESTING LINKS: Beautiful Online Scarygirl Game: April 15th, 2009

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Boing Boing Offworld called my attention to a gorgeous new online Scarygirl game by Nathan Jurevicius that I look forward to checking out in more detail.