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HEY! KIDS! COMICS!: Feininger, Herriman, Capp and Much More at Tras Las Turquesas Cortinas: November 20th, 2008

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A lot of nice stuff linked to today from a Spanish blog I ran across called Tras Las Turquesas Cortinas, including Lyonel Feininger, George Herriman, Al Capp and a lot more. The best way to check it out is to just go to the site and explore. Above is a crop from one of the marvelous Feininger Kin-Der Kids strips reprinted there.

INTERESTING LINKS: Andrew Loomis Composition Tutorials at The Temple of the Seven Golden Camels: November 20th, 2008

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The Temple of the Seven Golden Camels blog brings us some interesting tutorials on composition from Andrew Loomis’s out-of-print Creative Illustration book. They also provide instructions for getting all of Loomis’s books for free online as pdfs.

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

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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).

INTERESTING LINKS: The Time-Life Photo Gallery Hosted by Google: November 19th, 2008

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Boing Boing and Drawn! point us to the new, easily searchable, and overwhelming Time-Life photography archive hosted by Google featuring over 10 million historical images, many of which were never before published. What an amazing resource. Above is a crop from a photo I found there of Charles Schulz gleefully squirting a child with a squirt gun… click the image to go to the archive.

CRUMBLING PAPER: Billy Bragg

Here’s an example I scanned of Billy Bragg by C.W. Kahles (the man who brought us the previously posted Billy Bounce strips). I don’t know the year on this one. I don’t believe the prolific Mr. Kahles ever did a comic strip that didn’t feature a protagonist with an alliterative name describing their character.

Click the image to view the full strip.

Click here to read examples of Kahles’ Billy Bounce at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read examples of Kahles’ Clumsy Claude at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read examples of Kahles’ Hairbreadth Harry at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read examples of Kahles’ Foolish Fred and Clarance the Cop at Stripper’s Guide.

Click here to read examples of Kahles’ Optimistic Oswald at Stripper’s Guide.

Click here to read about Kahles at lambiek.net.

Click here to read more about Kahles’ Billy Bounce at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

Click here to read more about Kahles’ Hairbreadth Harry at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Opper, Herriman, Woodring, Barks and Tendlar : November 18th, 2008

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More rare Opper strips from Allan Holtz at The Stripper’s Guide! One particularly interesting item features most of Opper’s characters that were current at that time in one strip… a panel from it can be seen above. See the strips here and here.

Also, another of Mr. Holtz’s wonderful Herriman Saturdays, reprinting some of George Herriman’s extremely rare early editorial cartooning work. This week includes more coverage of the previously mentioned Shriners’ convention.

Another beautiful monstrosity from Jim Woodring.

The Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories Donald Duck 8-pager Gopher Goof-Ups by Carl Barks courtesy of Rodney Bowcock’s Comics & Stories.

A rare, beautifully drawn comic to sell kids shoes by Walt-Kelly-influenced animator Dave Tendlar courtesy of Cartoon Brew.

INTERESTING LINKS: Nightmare-Inducing Swedish Dance Band Photos from the 1970’s: November 18th, 2008

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Sometimes it is hard to believe the Seventies ever happened. Swedish 1970’s dance band photos, courtesy of the one and only Boing Boing.

THE CARTOON CRYPT: Pete Roleum and His Cousins (1939)

Here is a gorgeusly designed and animated, extremely bizarre stop-motion animation for the petroleum industry from the demented mind of Charley Bowers, the man who made the previously posted and equally bizarre Metal Eating Bird.

Note that you can get a dvd called Charley Bowers: The Rediscovery of an American Comic Genius (1926), which includes all of the Bowers films known to still exist here.

HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Dr. Seuss, Arch Dale, more Opper and “Graphic Novels” courtesy of the New York Times : November 14th, 2008

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The New York Times has an overview of most of the “graphic novels” they have featured in their publications so far. I guess that the Times calling these graphic novels should be expected from a paper too clueless to have a comics section for the entire twentieth century. Chris Ware’s comic is notably absent. Although it is a large stretch to refer to these as graphic novels, it is an excellent bunch of comics, including Dan Clowes Mr. Wonderful, Seth’s George Sprott, Rutu Modan’s Murder of the Terminal Patient, Jason’s Low Moon and Megan Kelso’s Watergate Sue.

More Frederick Opper at the Stripper’s Guide here and here.


John Adcock gives us an updated biography of Arch Dale with many illustrations and comics at his Punch in Canada Blog.

Finally, here’s some rare Dr. Seuss courtesy of Mystery Hoard.