HEY! KIDS! COMICS!: Herriman, McCay, Hoff and Weird City: November 19th, 2008

STWALLSKULL'S HEY! KIDS! COMICS!

I’ve always liked Syd Hoff’s gag cartoons and his childrens’ books… Barkley, Oliver and Grizzwold are frequent reads with my three year old. Here’s a selection of Syd Hoff cartoons from his book Feeling No Pain (1944) at Hairy Green Eyeball.

Any day I can feature some George Herriman is a good day… and these days, between the Krazy Kat dailies reprints at Comic Strip Library News and Mark Kausler’s CatBlog, the Herriman Saturdays at the Stripper’s Guide, and stuff that just shows up miscellaneously, I’m happy to report that this seems to happen almost every time I post.

Note that in the news on their site, Comic Strip Library News reports they have now posted the complete pre-1923 Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay.

The Fortress Of Fortitude takes us on a trip to Weird City (published originally in Blue Bolt Weird Tales of Terror # 119).

HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Moore and Simpson’s In Pictopia, Gould’s Late Dick Tracy, A Herriman Saturday, McCay Illustrations, and The Concert of the Apes : October 14th, 2008

STWALLSKULL'S HEY! KIDS! COMICS!

TODAY’S FEATURED ITEMS:

I Love Comix brings us some highly bizarre Chester Gould Dick Tracy Sundays from a few years before he retired. Gould’s art and stories were always highly eccentric, but near the end of his run a lot of his strips were downright incoherent… always interesting, though. Click the image above to go there.

The Comic Book Catacombs brings us Concert of the Apes… click the image above to go there.

Another Herriman Saturday at Allan Holtz’s Stripper’s Guide! Click the image above to go there.


Golden Age Comic Book Stories
brings us a bunch of gorgeous Winsor McCay editorial illustrations. Click the image above to go there.

Finally, Scans Daily presents a wonderful and fairly obscure (not reprinted, as far as I know) Alan Moore/Don Simpson rarity from the 1986 Fantagraphics anthology Anything Goes! #2. Click the above image to go there.

Crumbling Paper: Little Sammy Sneeze (strip #2)

Here’s an example I scanned from October 2nd, 1904 of Little Sammy Sneeze by Winsor McCay.

Click the image to view the full strip.

Click here to read more examples of Little Sammy Sneeze at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read about Winsor McCay at lambiek.net.

Click here to buy Little Sammy Sneeze book from Sunday Press Books

Click here to read more about Little Sammy Sneeze at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

There are too many McCay books for me to reference here… we live in wondrous times. Here is a link to the amazing McCay books from Sunday Press printed and restored at full size… big enough to be used as a blunt object. They recently did a Little Sammy Sneeze book that oh boy I gotta have someday, which also includes a lot of examples of two other marvelous strips that were printed on the backs of the Sammy Sneeze strips… The Upside-Downs by Gustave Verbeek and J.P. Benson’s Woozlebeasts.

Crumbling Paper: Little Sammy Sneeze, The Wish Twins and Aladdin’s Lamp, and Feminine Fancies

Allan Holtz at the excellent old comics blog The Stripper’s Guide posted an example the other day of The Wish Twins and Aladdin’s Lamp by W.O. Wilson, which inspired me to get this posted. Here’s an example I scanned from August 5th, 1906 of The Wish Twins and Aladdin’s Lamp by W.O. Wilson, along with Little Sammy Sneeze by Winsor McCay, and Feminine Fancies by unknown. If anyone out there knows the cartoonist who did Feminine Fancies (which I believe is the same series as Fancies of the Fair), please let me know… their signature is in the middle panel.

Click the image to view the full strip.

Click here to read more examples of Little Sammy Sneeze at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read more examples of The Wish Twins and Aladdin’s Lamp at Barnacle Press.

See some stunning examples of W.O. Wilson’s Madge the Magician’s Daughter at Hogan’s Alley (which are also in black and white in the print edition of the magazine).

Click here to read more examples of Fancies of the Fair at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read about Winsor McCay at lambiek.net.

Click here to read about W.O. Wilson at lambiek.net.

It appears someone recently published a small book collection of Madge the Magician’s Daughter.

There are too many McCay books for me to reference here… we live in wondrous times. Here is a link to the amazing McCay books from Sunday Press printed and restored at full size… big enough to be used as a blunt object. They recently did a Little Sammy Sneeze book that oh boy I gotta have someday, which also includes a lot of examples of two other marvelous strips that were printed on the backs of the Sammy Sneeze strips… The Upside-Downs by Gustave Verbeek and J.P. Benson’s Woozlebeasts.

THE CARTOON CRYPT: Little Nemo (1911)

THE CARTOON CRYPT

Winsor McCay was a pioneer in both comic strips and animated films, and he did both disciplines more skillfully than anyone else attempting them at the time. This lovely cartoon was hand animated on rice paper and color tinted by hand on the film by Winsor McCay in 1911, if you can believe that. 1911!

Please be advised that like much of the popular culture of the era, it contains offensive racial depictions. If this sort of thing offends you, you may not want to view it.

Read more about this cartoon on the Big Cartoon Database here.

Read more about Winsor McCay at Lambiek.net.

Read more about Winsor McCay on Wikipedia.

There is a DVD that collects Winsor McCay’s cartoons that can be purchased here.

I think all his cartoons are available on the internet as well.