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Interesting Links: July 2nd, 2008

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I’ve been too busy to post lately… hopefully I’ll get some in today. I’m happy to note that my wife and I are having a second baby in the next week or so… so obviously, posting may be sporadic for a while. Please do keep checking back!

#37: pixie

#37: pixie

cutepoints (1-10): 3
disposition: vociferous
about: pixie would like to have a
word with you. many words. she
never lets not having anything
to say get in the way of saying
it. once a squirrel crawled down
her throat thinking it was a cave.
quote: “doncha know? know what
i mean? i mean, really. um.”
likes: watermelons, water slides

Crumbling Paper: Joe Jinks

Here’s an example I scanned of Joe Jinks with the header strip It Seems That- from 1929 or 1930 by Vic Forsythe.

Click the image to view the full strip.

See I’m Falling in Love With Someone by Vic Forsythe at Stripper’s Guide.

See The Little Woman and Way Out West by Vic Forsythe at Stripper’s Guide.

Click here to read about Vic Forsythe at lambiek.net.

Click here to read more about Joe Jinks at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

See some Joe Jinks originals at comicstripfan.com.

THE CARTOON CRYPT: The Mascot (1933)

THE CARTOON CRYPT

A great, great short by Ladislaw Starewicz, The Mascot, in three parts. I posted a short excerpt from this cartoon previously… this is the full cartoon at a much better quality. The Mascot is one of the most bizarre and beautiful puppet animations I’ve ever seen. And it has a monkey! Don’t miss it!

Part 1

Part 2

Part3

Read more about Ladislaw Starewicz at Animation Heaven and Hell.

Read more about Ladislaw Starewicz at Wikipedia.

See a tribute site to Ladislaw Starewicz made by his granddaughter.

For more old cartoons with monkeys, go here.

HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : John Stanley’s Other Comics : June 26th, 2008

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Scans Daily has recently had a number of posts of comics written by the great John Stanley. I’ve been reading a whole lot of Stanley’s brilliant Little Lulu comics recently with my daughter, and they are some of the best kids’ comics ever written. So great is Little Lulu that is has overshadowed Stanley’s other comics work in most comics aficionados minds.

It is interesting to see some more of his other work… his work was rarely credited at the companies he worked for, and I hadn’t really realized what a variety of work he did.

If you want more, note the wonderful (and very affordable) series of Little Lulu books that was recently published by Dark Horse Comics, and also note that Drawn and Quarterly recently announced that they will be publishing much of Stanley’s other comics work. Click the image below to go to the latest Stanley post on Scans Daily.


Interesting Links: June 26th, 2008

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THE CARTOON CRYPT: The Plane Cabby’s Lucky Day (1932)

THE CARTOON CRYPT

J – Oatari Sora No Entaku (The Plane Cabby’s Lucky Day) (1932), by Teizo Kato. This bizarre cartoon is made more bizarre by the animator not animating random stuff he apparently doesn’t feel like animating, or doesn’t feel competent to animate… arms stretch for no reason other than wanting to avoid drawing a walk cycle… inanimate objects move on their own accord. Instead of putting a hat on, our hero shoots a hat out of his ass and it floats effortlessly onto his head.

HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : The Sunday Funnies at the ASIFA Hollywood Animation Archive : June 24th, 2008

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Another embarrassment of riches for you… it seems like the amount of cool old scans online has been increasing exponentially lately. Again, really hard to pick one item to feature. I mean, Marc Bell has a blog!

However, I’m guessing the link most of my readers will be the most drawn to today is again courtesy of Stephen Worth at the utterly fantastic ASIFA Hollywood Animation Archive blog. He has posted three old Sunday funnies sections in their entirety, along with an essay wondering what the hell happened to make newspaper comics sink to the depths they have sunk to today. Lots of beautiful stuff, scanned large and clean. Pictured below, a panel from Clifford McBride’s Napoleon, one of the many, many comics featured. Click it to see the full post!

Napoleon by Clifford McBride

Interesting Links: June 24th, 2008

STWALLSKULL'S INTERESTING LINKS