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THE CARTOON CRYPT: Betty Boop in Betty in Blunderland (1934)

THE CARTOON CRYPT

Another excellent, surreal Betty Boop cartoon… I love the Jabberwocky in this. The featured song in it, “How Do You Do,” is an altered version of the song “Everyone Says I Love You.” Below is Groucho Marx’s wonderful version of that song from Horse Feathers (1932) (starts at 36 seconds in or so). There are other great versions of that song in Horse Feathers as well… note that you can see the entire movie on YouTube starting here. I’ve exported the music from both movies as mp3’s for your listening pleasure… you can grab those here.

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

HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Andy’s Atomic Adventures at Hairy Green Eyeball : August 8th, 2008

STWALLSKULL'S HEY! KIDS! COMICS!

Happy 8-8-8!

There is lots of good stuff to be seen at the Hairy Green Eyeball blog. Below is a panel from Andy’s Atomic Adventures, some twisted pro-atomic propaganda from Classics Illustrated #138A Adventures in Science (June 1957), reprinted there. Click on the image to go to the story.

Interesting Links: August 8th, 2008

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Crumbling Paper: The Outbursts of Everett True (strip #42)

STWALLSKULL'S CRUMBLING PAPER INDEX

Here is an Everett True strip I scanned from October 7, 1924. Go here to see more Outbursts of Everett True on this site.

If you have a desire to draw your own interpretation of an Everett True strip and send it to me, I’d love to put it up for the internet for all to see with a link to your website or what have you. Send it to me at:

Click here to go to the Barnacle Press collection of Everett True strips by A.D. Condo

Click here to read about the lesser-known works of A.D. Condo at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read some samples of Mr. Skygack, From Mars by A.D. Condo at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read some samples of Diana Dillpickles by A.D. Condo at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read some samples of Duke Murphy by A.D. Condo at Barnacle Press.

Click here to the Toonopedia entry on Everett True

Click here to read about A.D. Condo at lambiek.net.

HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Al Feldstein’s Spawn of Venus : August 7th, 2008

STWALLSKULL'S HEY! KIDS! COMICS!

Today we have yet another version of the previously mentioned story Spawn of Venus, this one by Al Feldstein! Courtesy of Entrecomics. I like Feldstein’s stuff, but seeing him compared so directly to Wood does not do him justice. Apparently this version ran in the Feldstein edited Weird Science #6. I don’t know why they chose not to use the Wood version… Wood’s version apparently didn’t see print until its inclusion in Witzend #6 (1969). There are differences in the script as well. If anyone has more of the poop on this, please do elaborate in the comments. Click the image below to go to the comic.

Interesting Links: August 7th, 2008

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Crumbling Paper: The Outbursts of Everett True (strip #41)

STWALLSKULL'S CRUMBLING PAPER INDEX

Here is an Everett True strip I scanned from October 6, 1924. Go here to see more Outbursts of Everett True on this site.

If you have a desire to draw your own interpretation of an Everett True strip and send it to me, I’d love to put it up for the internet for all to see with a link to your website or what have you. Send it to me at:

Click here to go to the Barnacle Press collection of Everett True strips by A.D. Condo

Click here to read about the lesser-known works of A.D. Condo at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read some samples of Mr. Skygack, From Mars by A.D. Condo at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read some samples of Diana Dillpickles by A.D. Condo at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read some samples of Duke Murphy by A.D. Condo at Barnacle Press.

Click here to the Toonopedia entry on Everett True

Click here to read about A.D. Condo at lambiek.net.

HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Flip the Frog Annual, More Funnies at the ASIFA, and Wood’s Spawn of Venus Inked : August 6th, 2008

STWALLSKULL'S HEY! KIDS! COMICS! So much great stuff… way too much to look at. I take a couple weeks off from this stuff, and the length of this thing just gets ugly. I don’t know what to feature today… Wolverton obscurities? Fox & Crow comics? More Herriman? Walt Kelly? Arch Dale? I’d feature the Chris Ware link the Comics Reporter pointed me to, but the resolution is terrible.

How about a Flip the Frog comic? Flip the Frog? He had comics? I guess he did… presented courtesy of Comicrazys, click the image below to see it.

But then there’s the ASIFA – Hollywood Animation Archive, doing amazing work as usual. Not only do they deliver the goods, but they do it with big, gorgeous scans. Some choice old newspaper funnies featuring Cliff Sterrett, Milt Gross, Clare Briggs and more are there today. Click the image below to go drool over them.

Those are sure great, but I gotta point to this as well… an inked version of the Wally Wood Spawn of Venus story I ran the pencils for previously, thinking they had not been inked… Courtesy of the Golden Age Comic Book Stories blog. Click on the image below to view it.