I’ve added the ability to put polls on the site. I will use them now to definitively answer the question you have all been wondering…
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This poll expires next Thursday, June 19th. You are encouraged to support your pick in the comments. Ballot stuffing, voter coercion and all manner of dirty tricks are encouraged.
Here’s an example I scanned of Sallie Slick and Her Surprising Aunt Amelia from 1902 by Jean Mohr. According to Lambiek, Jean Mohr was one of the earliest female cartoonists. A little more context for Jean Mohr can be found in this article by Trina Robbins, author of numerous books on women in comics.
Click the image to view the full strip.
What a performance…
If you like the music from this video, here are some mp3’s exported from it:
Max and Harry Nesbitt – My Baby’s Got Red Hair and Freckles
Max and Harry Nesbitt – Impression of Two American Boy Scouts
Another great day for browsing comics online, as is usually the case when Stephen Worth at the incredible ASIFA Hollywood Animation Archive blog makes a post. Today he has given us more Jimmy Swinnerton to appreciate! Some exceptionally beautiful examples of his work, too. Click the image below to view the comics.
Also note that I have posted a whole lot of other examples of Swinnerton’s work on this site previously… you can view those here.
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The Crumbling Paper Archive: Big, juicy scans I’ve made of some of our disappearing comics heritage, often featuring items that haven’t been seen in over a century.
HEY! KIDS! COMICS! A regular listing of fun comics found around the internet.
Obscure Images. Posts of comics images found around the web in auctions and other places.
Interesting Links. A regular listing of interesting content of all sorts from around the interneticles.
Other miscellaneous things show up regularly as well, like the comics I draw, animated cartoons I find around on the internet, music videos of the kinds of crusty old music I dig, the currently abandoned 150 Greatest Cartoonists Countdown project, and my usual bizarre and ill-informed rants and ramblings.
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Here’s a funny and gorgeously designed 1934 example I scanned of Keeping Up With The Joneses with the header strip Holly of Hollywood by Arthur R. “Pop” Momand.
Click the image to view the full strip.
Click here to read a number of early examples of Keeping Up With the Joneses at Barnacle Press.
Here is a large scan of an original Keeping Up With the Joneses strip from kochcomicart.com.
Click here to read about Arthur R. “Pop” Momand at lambiek.net.
Click here to read more about Keeping Up With The Joneses at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.
Click here to read Arthur “Pop” Momand’s obituary at the New York Times. The strip actually ended in 1938, not 1945 as claimed in the article according to the authoritative Allan Holtz at The Stripper’s Guide.
A Harman-Ising MGM cartoon from 1936. As with yesterday’s cartoon, this cartoon is in the genre of anthropomorphic inanimate objects.
Read more about this cartoon on the Big Cartoon Database here.
Today’s smörgÃ¥sbord of free online comics includes an excellent short article on Jimmy Swinnerton with a few nice strips by him at the insightful Illustration Art blog. Click the image below to go to the article.
