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INTERESTING LINKS: Comics Code Censorship, Before and After, at The Jack Kirby Museum Website :October 10th, 2008

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An example of Comics Code Editing

The Jack Kirby Museum brings us the fascinating post “The Most Poorly Reworked Story in the History of Comics,” an examination of the differences in one story published before and after the censorious Comics Code was implemented. Click the above image to go there.

SOAPY THE CHICKEN (#112): Ramblin’ Al on Mortality, Part Two

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I wanted to mention that, 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.

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HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Woodring, Cannon, Herriman, Chelsea, and Kent’s King Aroo : October 9th, 2008

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Top Shelf Comix brings us a fun comic on yard sales, all told in verse, by David Chelsea. Click the image to go there.

The second day of Sundays of Jack Kent’s King Aroo at Cartoon Snap (here’s yesterday’s again). Click the image to go there.


On his new blog called Freshman for Life, my friend Kevin Cannon posts the entire Sloth Force Seven mini-comic he posted the first seven pages of yesterday. You can subscribe to Kevin’s Freshman for Life blog here. Click the image to go there.

Mark Kausler posts some more George Herriman Krazy Kat dailies, among other goodies, on his CatBlog. Click the image to go there.

Finally, another mind-melter from the great Jim Woodring. Click the image to go there.

INTERESTING LINKS: October 9th, 2008

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Today Drawn! points us to icecreampeople.org, a blog devoted to nothing but images of anthropomorphic ice cream people. Check the FAQ on their site to see how you can submit your own illustration of an ice cream person, something I am really going to have to get around to. Click the image to go to the site.

THE CARTOON CRYPT: Flip the Frog in The Cuckoo Murder Case (1930)

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Another spooky cartoon to get you in the mood for Halloween… I love the abrupt ending of this one. If you want more spookiness, check out my ongoing list of spooky cartoons.

Read more about this cartoon on The Big Cartoon Database.

This cartoon, along with almost all of Ub Iwerks cartoons made for his own studio, are available on the excellent DVDs The Cartoons that time Forgot Volume One and Volume Two. This cartoon is on Volume 2.

HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Kurtzman, Cannon, Woodring, Flip, Mattias, Goldberg and a Conspiracy Jam : October 8th, 2008

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Too many great items to feature them all this time around… here are some of the highlights…

Rube Goldberg's Side Show

The ASIFA Hollywood Animation Archive gives us some wonderful examples of (the only cartoonist listed in the dictionary) Rube Goldberg’s Side Show sunday strips, a great hodge-podge of interesting and funny features that was the home for his famous Inventions. Click the above image to go there.

 

Sloth Force Seven

My friend Kevin Cannon brings us the first seven pages of his wonderful new Sloth Force Seven minicomic which I got at FallCon this weekend. Click the above image to view it.

 

Woodring's Don't Wait Up, Mother

Another marvelous and particularly funny Jim Woodring image. Click the image above to go look at it.

 

Flip the Frog Annual

Comicrazys gives us more of the extremely obscure Flip the Frog Annual series. Click the image… you know the routine by now, don’t you?

 

Cartoonist Conspiracy October 2008 Jam

Here is the Minneapolis Cartoonist Conspiracy Jam from October 2008 that I participated in as usual. Note that anyone can participate… just show up the first Thursday of the month at Diamond’s Coffee Shoppe in Minneapolis with pen in hand. Click the image to download the fairly large pdf (thanks to Kevin Cannon for scanning and posting these!)

 

Mattias Inks Amazing Buildings

Mattias has been on a roll producing amazing illustrations of fantastic buildings… he just completed a series of five particularly fanciful "vehicle" buildings.. Click… image…

 

Rube Goldberg's Side Show

More rare Harvey Kurtzman from Those Fabuleous Fifties! Click the above image to go there.

 

INTERESTING LINKS: How to Pass Unpopular Legislation: October 8th, 2008

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TODAY’S FEATURED ITEM: Boing Boing reports that some US Congresspeople were threatened that martial law would be imposed if the bailout bill didn’t pass. That’s one way to pass unpopular legislation!