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HEY! KIDS! COMICS! Kevin Cannon’s Armitage Shanks in An A-FLARE to Remember: June 12th, 2008

Featured item: My friend Kevin Cannon just posted a wonderful little comic of his character Armitage Shanks that he made on five trading cards to be given away at this year’s FallCon. Click the image to view the comic.

Interesting Links: June 12th, 2008

THE CARTOON CRYPT: Swing, Monkey, Swing (1937)

THE CARTOON CRYPT

An incredible Charles Mintz produced cartoon animated by Manny Gould for Columbia Pictures. Unfortunately, some of it is cut off, but it is still utterly fantastic. What a great soundtrack! They start with some Cab Calloway style hi-de-ho mixed with a Mills Brothers-esque monkey making music with his mouth, move into something that sounds a lot like Jungle Fever (which I know through the Mills Brothers), and finish with St. Louis Blues. The person who posted this on DailyMotion thinks the soundtrack was most likely by Les Hite and his Orchestra.

Please note: The monkey jazz musicians in this cartoon could definitely be read as a racial slur if you’re inclined to read monkeys as a racial slur. If this sort of thing offends you, you may not want to view it.

Go here to see a whole lot of other classic monkey cartoons on this website.

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

Interesting Links: June 11th, 2008

These link lists are getting unwieldy… I’m splitting off the free comics found around the web into a separate category called “Hey! Kids! Comics!” in the next post (although some are still in this one).

HEY! KIDS! COMICS!: Basil Wolverton’s ROBOT WOMAN: June 11th, 2008

Here’s a new category for this website… “HEY! KIDS! COMICS!” will be a secondary “link list” feature only visually juicy comics links from around the internets, with an image of a featured item at the top (conveniently linked from the image). A doozy is featured today… the great Basil Wolverton’s Robot Woman, courtesy of The Fortress of Fortitude.

Cute li’l guy of the month of May update

We have a frontrunner. With two cute li’l votes, Skritch has taken the lead!

#30: skritch

Skritch says: “Sob! Youse all don’ really like me, doos youse? Ise just a sad li’l bit o’ fluff. Boo hoo!”

Two other li’l guys are in the running also with one vote each…

#31: zeezil

Zeezil says nothing, as he doesn’t talk. He does giggle though, a giggle so quiet it is completely drowned out by a breeze passing by.

#32: pip the purple pig

Pip says: “If elected, I will ride down a very big hill on one greased roller skate!”

Go here to review all of the candidates for May and vote for your favorite cute li’l guy. Please do your civic duty!

You’re also encouraged to cheer on your favorite cute li’l guy in the comments.

Polls close end of day Thursday, June 5th.