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SOAPY THE CHICKEN (#114): The Polar Bear in the Snowstorm was Booked

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SUPER-FANTASTICA COMICS #3

I made the below cover and a strip inside my friend Dan Olson’s latest SUPER-FANTASTICA anthology… more information here. I also had a 4-page piece in the first issue. The strip I have in the current issue is the same one I had in this year’s City Pages Comix Issue which I mentioned previously. Other contributors include Amado Rodriguez, Ben Z, Bob Lipski, Brian Bastian, Bud Burgy, Daniel J. Olson, Danno Klonowski, Ray N., Ryan Dow and Vanesa Littlecrow. You can buy all issues of Super Fantastica here!

CRUMBLING PAPER: Bringing Up Father and Rosie’s Beau (strip #2)

Here’s an example I scanned of Bringing Up Father with the header strip Rosie’s Beau from March 31, 1935 by George McManus.

Click the image to view the full strip.

Apparently, there are over 1400 Bringing Up Father strips in the I Love Comix archive.

Click here to read MANY examples of Bringing Up Father at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read examples of The Newlyweds by George McManus at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read examples of Their Only Child by George McManus at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read examples of Alma & Oliver by George McManus at Allan Holtz’s Stripper’s Guide.

Click here to read examples of Burglar Pete by George McManus at Allan Holtz’s Stripper’s Guide.

Click here to read all the items mentioning George McManus at Allan Holtz’s Stripper’s Guide.

Click here to check out The Holloway Pages’ Bringing Up Father original art page.

Click here to read about George McManus at lambiek.net.

Click here to read more about Bringing Up Father at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

Click here to read more about The Newlyweds at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

Click here to read more about Nibsy the Newsboy in Funny Fairyland at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

Click here to read a Newlyweds example at Shorpy.

Click here to read a Bringing Up Father example at Shorpy.

Read about George McManus at Wikipedia.

Go here to see examples of The Newlyweds at Coconino Classics.

Go here to get a DVD of all of George McManus’s work from 1905-1906. The site includes lovely color scans of a Nibsy the Newsboy in Funny Fairyland and Panhandle Pete Sunday strips.

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.

INTERESTING LINKS: Krazy Kat in the Kolumbia Kartoons at Uncle John’s Crazy Town: October 14th, 2008

STWALLSKULL'S INTERESTING LINKS

TODAY’S FEATURED ITEM: Uncle John’s Crazy Town has been posting a lot of amazing looking stills from old Columbia Krazy Kat cartoons. I have always arbitrarily & stupidly dismissed these cartoons without watching them, as they totally ignored the “source material”… George Herriman’s brilliant Krazy Kat comic strips. It appears that in spite of their apparent disdain for or dismissal of Herriman’s work, their cartoons stand on their own as something werra werra interesting. From seeing the stills he has posted, they look pretty amazing… I’m going to have to see what Columbia Krazy Kats I can hunt down on the internet. Check out the short clip of the devious looking mesmerist doing his thing from the Krazy Kat cartoon Svengarlic by clicking the above image… and then check out the rest of the blog to see Kat stills.

SOAPY THE CHICKEN (#113): Indigestion

Click the above image to read the current strip.

If you like this stuff and want to read the previous strips without going back post by post through the blog, they are easily browsed in THE ARCHIVE here.

The election for new comic strip czar will happen November 4th. Who will you vote for? Support your candidate by putting their below banner on your website, blog, social networking site, or ass. Consider it your own virtual lawn sign.





We have also provided a banner for one of the third party candidates in case you like losing:



Confused? Read this. Get more confused.

See the Soapy the Chicken archive here. Get downright perplexed.

Subscribe to the Chicken Feed. Understand less on a sometimes regular basis.

CRUMBLING PAPER: Bringing Up Father and Rosie’s Beau (strip #1)

Here’s an example I scanned of Bringing Up Father with the header strip Rosie’s Beau from January 5, 1930 by George McManus.

Click the image to view the full strip.

Apparently, there are over 1400 Bringing Up Father strips in the I Love Comix archive.

Click here to read MANY examples of Bringing Up Father at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read examples of The Newlyweds by George McManus at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read examples of Their Only Child by George McManus at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read examples of Alma & Oliver by George McManus at Allan Holtz’s Stripper’s Guide.

Click here to read examples of Burglar Pete by George McManus at Allan Holtz’s Stripper’s Guide.

Click here to read all the items mentioning George McManus at Allan Holtz’s Stripper’s Guide.

Click here to check out The Holloway Pages’ Bringing Up Father original art page.

Click here to read about George McManus at lambiek.net.

Click here to read more about Bringing Up Father at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

Click here to read more about The Newlyweds at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

Click here to read more about Nibsy the Newsboy in Funny Fairyland at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

Click here to read a Newlyweds example at Shorpy.

Click here to read a Bringing Up Father example at Shorpy.

Read about George McManus at Wikipedia.

Go here to see examples of The Newlyweds at Coconino Classics.

Go here to get a DVD of all of George McManus’s work from 1905-1906. The site includes lovely color scans of a Nibsy the Newsboy in Funny Fairyland and Panhandle Pete Sunday strips.

HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : More Mattias, Stanley’s Tubby, C.C. Beck’s Fatman : October 10th, 2008

STWALLSKULL'S HEY! KIDS! COMICS!

TODAY’S FEATURED ITEMS:

Cartoonist Mattias, who I have mentioned a couple times recently, just opened an Etsy shop selling his originals. A lot of gorgeous stuff to look at there… and it is cheap! Only forty bucks for the “dog” below… from the high quality of his stuff, I would guess few of us will be able to afford any of his originals in five years.

Stanley Stories gives us a typically hilarious John Stanley Tubby story, illustrated by Lloyd White. Click the image to go there.

And Again With the Comics brings us another fatty, (co-creator of Captain Marvel) C.C. Beck’s Fatman the Human Flying Saucer.