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HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : The Onion Sisters : July 10, 2008

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Just a ton of great stuff today… I hit the golden age funny animal comic jackpot below. You’ll find great stuff by Carl Barks, Walt Kelly and Floyd Gottfredson, among many others. Also some great examples of Cliff Sterrett’s Polly and Her Pals from the ASIFA Hollywood Animation Archive, which is among my favorite comic strips.

Today I thought I would highlight something more obscure, though. Here’s the latest post from my friends at the amazing Barnacle Press blog… click the image below to meet the bizarre Onion Sisters!

The Onion Sisters

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Second Annual City Pages Comix Issue Out TODAY: When the Elephants Come to Town

Above: Tim Sievert‘s contribution to the Comix Issue.

The second annual City Pages Comix Issue that many Cartoonist Conspirators contributed to is out today! The theme was “When the Elephants Come to Town,” which is a reference to the Republican National Convention in St. Paul this year. Many items that did not fit in the issue were included online. The print issue will be all over the Twin Cities for the next week.

I have a cartoon in the issue… you can view it directly by clicking the above image.

A lot of good stuff… particularly notable, as usual… Kevin Cannon has contributed another one of his enormous, chicken-fat-filled cartoons:

Click the images to go to the City Pages Comix Issue, and see the above cartoon much, much larger!

Note that you can leave comments on the feature on the City Pages website here.

UPDATE: The City Pages Comix Issue was just featured in the Comics Reporter here.

Crumbling Paper: School Days – Half the World are Nuts and the Other Half are Squirrels

Here’s an example I scanned of School Days with the header strip A Dog’s Life from October 3, 1926 by Clare “Dwig” Dwiggins.

Click the image to view the full strip.

Click here to read Home Wanted by a Baby by Clare “Dwig” Dwiggins at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read an example of When Dreams Come True by Clare “Dwig” Dwiggins at Stripper’s Guide.

See details of a watercolor by Clare “Dwig” Dwiggins here.

See a cool card with a fortune telling witch drawn by Clare “Dwig” Dwiggins here.

See the entire book Crankisms by Lisle de Vaux Matthewman, illustrated by Clare “Dwig” Dwiggins at gutenberg.org here.

See the entire book Andiron Tales by John Kendrick Bangs, illustrated by Clare “Dwig” Dwiggins at gutenberg.org here.

Click here to read about Clare “Dwig” Dwiggins at lambiek.net.

Click here to read more about School Days at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

Read some obscure and interesting information about Clare “Dwig” Dwiggins in the comments to this post on the A Revoltin’ Development blog.

THE CARTOON CRYPT: Flip the Frog in Fiddlesticks (1930)

THE CARTOON CRYPT

Only two of Ub Iwerks’ Flip the Frog cartoons were made in color, and one of them was the first one, Fiddlesticks, seen below. I’ve always preferred the early Flip design to the later one… he looks much more like a frog, and much funnier. I would guess the design was changed so it would be easier to animate him turning his head… the designs are so different they don’t even resemble each other. If you want to see the later design, check out the coloring book posted at Comicrazys. I’ve also posted a number of Flip the Frog and other Ub Iwerks cartoons previously that can be seen here.

Note the apparent Mickey Mouse rip-off late in this cartoon… since Ub Iwerks created Mickey Mouse a couple years before this was made, it hardly seems like a rip-off, though.

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

Read more about Ub Iwerks on Wikipedia here.

HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Jack Cole Week at Those Fabuleous Fifties : July 7th, 2008

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Last week was Jack Cole week at the Those Fabuleous Fifties blog. Jack Cole is best known today as the creator of Plastic Man, and he did a lot of wild crime and humor comics as well. Click the image below to read some good examples.

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  • Zinefest
  • PUNY blog: Curtis’ Aces Book ORDER TODAY
  • PUNY blog: Calling All Kids!
  • Future Acme
  • Beached Whale
  • Old Belgrade
  • YouTube user data must be turned over to Viacom, judge rules
  • Government nosy parkers use passport database to spy on celebs
  • The most horrible thing done to Charlie Brown by Lucy in The Complete Peanuts 1967-1968
  • America loves drugs
  • Bugs have creepy faces
  • Lost scenes from Metropolis found
  • As price of fuel soars, so does a dirigible renaissance?
  • FFF Results Post #126 — USA! USA!
  • HOWTO Make online videos without getting sued
  • Daniel Ellsberg on warrantless wiretapping bill
  • *Jessie Wilcox Smith* 1863 ~ 1935
  • *Walter Appleton Clark* 1877 ~ 1906
  • Education: Chad’s Design For Television 1960
  • Abdo-Slim ad from 1954
  • *Sid Check*
  • N. C. Wyeth 1882 ~ 1945
  • Pranks & Magic
  • Edgar Rice Burroughs 1875 ~ 1950 Portrait of ERB
  • UFDC Item
  • Imagerie d’Epinal – unbound collection of humourous broadsides for children
  • July 7, 2008: The Comics Journal #291
  • Beautiful, Cool, and Irreplaceable by Will Dinski
  • Jack Chick Movie
  • Grab Bag
  • God’s Cartoonist: The Comic Crusade of Jack T. Chick Movie Trailer
  • Daydreams
  • Moe’s Tracks May Have Been Spotted
  • Scrapbook Florilegium
  • Florida Wildlife Officials Searching For Loose Monkey
  • Gotham Apartments
  • Local councils in the UK use CCTVs to spy on dog owners, cute butts
  • Harpo Marx on the origin of the “Gookie”
  • FFF Results Post #125 — Cameos
  • Devo sues McDonalds
  • Lynda Barry
  • From the Dust Bin: Jetta of the 21st Century
  • July 3, 2008: Shorter Journalista 19
  • Comic Strip Library – Browse
  • The Comics Journal Message Board :: View topic – TRUMP?????
  • Original Art for Sale
  • Go, Look: Meeting McCay
  • HeroesCon 2008: New Alternatives Panel With Harkham, Buenaventura, Nadel
  • Two Midwest exhibits
  • Official anti-terrorism civilian snoop program to be expanded
  • Con-artist convinces town he’s a super Fed who doesn’t need search warrants
  • Counting monkeys
  • Weirdest Examples of Mass Hysteria
  • Fantagraphics Announces Its Fall 2008/Winter 2009…
  • Far Arden To Top Shelf For Spring ’09
  • What It Is Is A Very Strong Seller
  • London Mayoral vote can’t be verified due to e-voting irregularities
  • US promises to stop treating Nelson Mandela like a terrorist
  • Deconstructing Roy Lichtenstein
  • Why we fight
  • Freedom Opening July 4th at Altered Esthetics
  • MONSTRUOS!
  • Christopher Hitchens waterboards himself
  • HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Otto Messmer’s Felix the Cat

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    Another unbelievably great selection of new old comics on the web. As has been the case recently, it is hard to pick one to feature… Jack Cole, Frank Frazetta funny animals, comics by Tad, a whole Milt Gross book (!!!) and much more great stuff can be found below. I’ve chosen to feature Otto Messmer’s Felix the Cat. Messmer is another one of the greats of childrens’ comics. He has a beautifully simple style, and I love the way his stories unwind. Although widely acclaimed, Messmer still seems pretty underrated to me, and is really in need of more reprinting (Fantagraphics did do a great reprint of some of his newspaper strips a while ago called Nine Lives to Live: A Classic Felix Celebration). I think his Felix comics could sell like crazy if some good publisher packaged them well and marketed them to children. Click on the image below to read a Felix comic at Comicrazys.