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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.
- Nature Wins!
from Rick Veitch
- EVER SINCE ADAM AND EVE Part 2
from Mike Lynch Cartoons
- When You Go to an Antique Store, Do They Ask You What You’re Looking For?
- Hi Girl
from The Ephemerist
- The Runaway Lamb 2
- “Cliffhangers, resolved”
from In This Corner
- Pete the Pooch: Argosy 1947 – Milt Gross
- The Talking Stone Face
- The Spectre’s Face
- Sea-Scribe: The Life of Herman Melville
from Nedor-A-Day
- Lehmann art for sale
from FLOG! Entries
- Shanks: “An A-FLARE to Remember!”
from Big Time Attic
- Donald Duck makes Amuck
Interesting Links: June 12th, 2008
- mnartists.org | POP CULTURE: From Sandman to Star Trek to Sammy the Mouse
- the original Ghost Rider
from the Percy Trout hour
- somehow wrong …
from the Percy Trout hour
- Pankun & James as Giant Monsters in Godzilla Knock Off
from TV in Japan
- DW&WP website is live!
from Matt Madden’s blog
- Report From The Road: Archie McPhee is Alive and Well and Living in Seattle
- I Got Millions of Images
- REN & STIMPY PRODUCTION MUSIC …PART TWO!!
from SECRET FUN BLOG
- The End of the Auction
- MCAD comic art students
from Scary Terry’s World
- Finegan’s wake
from Jim Flora
- Louie Prima – Robin Hood 1945
- Popeye Vol. 3
- Prism Comics Guide 2008 and Rice Meeting Tomorrow
from CONSPIRE!
- comics vs sketchbook
- Pioneering Cartoonists of Color
- I’m the Guy Pinback Buttons
- SafeManuals Online User Guide Library [Manuals]
from Lifehacker
- Hour-long Mauldin video online
from FLOG! Entries
- Eveready Harton: world’s first porn cartoon character?
from Boing Boing
- Hypercube animations in up to seven dimensions
from Boing Boing
- Coathanger gorilla
from Boing Boing
- William Gibson interviewed on IO9
from Boing Boing
- Story: Stimpy’s Invention Storyboard
- Pioneering Cartoonists of Color
- Only One Genre
- *The Incredible* W. T. Benda 1873 ~1948
- Kids Reading Comics
- Mighty Mouse: The Perils of Pearl Pureheart – Jim Tyer
- Flip The Frog: Coloring Book – The Ub Iwerks Studio
- The Spirit: The Warren Covers – Will Eisner (w/Ken Kelly)
More Herriman Cigarette Buttons
I posted pictures I found on Ebay of George Herriman cigarette buttons up for auction a while ago. A couple more are up for auction. One is the same as one I posted previously, but this one is new:
THE CARTOON CRYPT: Swing, Monkey, Swing (1937)
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).
- Unicorn born in Italy
from Boing Boing
- Garkov — Garfield + Markov chains — Josh Millard
- Archive Cleaning Blues… not!
from CartoonsOnFilm
- Gene Colan LIVE Today
from Mike Lynch Cartoons
- Lee Salem Interview
from Mike Lynch Cartoons
- BG Layout tips for Nate – talent, style plus thought
from all kinds of stuff
- Animals Can Comprehend And Use Symbols, Study Of Tufted Capuchins Suggests
from Monkeys In The News
- Cheeta The Chimp Applies For Star On Hollywood Walk Of Fame
from Monkeys In The News
- Kucinich begins impeachment process for GW Bush
from Boing Boing
- Yes it is hot
from THE BEAT
- Howard Cruse and foreign reprint woes
from THE BEAT
- Cuttlefish embryos can spot prey
from Boing Boing
- Sabotage manual from 1944 advises acting like an average 2008 manager
from Boing Boing
- More On Frederic Wertham & Hajdu vs. Beaty: Craig Fischer Talks to Al Feldstein
from The Comics Reporter
- Bolling, Cannon Win 2008 AAN Awards
from The Comics Reporter
- Chicken bomb
from Boing Boing
- Art Deco incinerators
from Boing Boing
- Comic Art Gallery of Rob Stolzer at ComicArtFans.com :: Caniff, Milton
- Beanworld Sprouts Anew at Dark Horse – 6/9/2008 5:48:00 PM – Publishers Weekly
- TruMedia defends its advertising spyboards
from Boing Boing Gadgets
- Four-Color Corruption
- Out Come The Freaks
- Jungle Action
- The Dynamic Duo
- The Phantom Menace
- Mystery In Space
- Assault And Pepper
- Humor In An Elder Vein
- The Lady In Red
- Our Army At War
- Romancing The Stone
- Midnight Madness
- Obscurity of the Day: The Zanities
from Stripper’s Guide
- Creator Q&A: Larry Marder
from Blog@Newsarama
- June 11, 2008: The Fotygraft Album
- WFMU’s Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison from Jun 10, 2008
- June 10, 2008: Ol’ Sarge
- Today’s Bonus Video Link
from news from me
- Clinical Aspects of Monsters
from Goofbutton
- The Hungry Goat — Dan Gordon’s Great Manic Popeye Cartoon
from Cartoon SNAP
- Adventures into Darkness #9 cover
from Nedor-A-Day
- The Corpse That Wouldn’t Die!
- Trophies of Doom
from Nedor-A-Day
- Frank King’s 1960 Xmas Card
from FLOG! Entries
- Sketchbook #54
from FLOG! Entries
- The Bodleian Library Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
from BibliOdyssey
- Henry Miller’s unfond memories of NYC
from Boing Boing
- J.K. Rowling on the power of failure
from Boing Boing
- ATF Leatherman tool kits inscribed: “Always Think Forfeiture.”
from Boing Boing
- Will Finn Analyzes Chuck Jones
- Lying In The Gutters – 6-9-2008
from Lying In The Gutters
- Hangman’s Horror
- The Black Terror: Chaos On the Calcutta Road
from Nedor-A-Day
- *A small tribute to the theme and films that are…
- Sequoia voting machines debacle in New Jersey: unguarded machines and broken tildes
from Boing Boing
- The Bowing Machine
- Escape Magazine #6: Comics USA – Alan Moore reports on a visit to New York in 1984 | LinkMachineGo
- Photos from squirrel taximdermy diorama museum in Wisconsin funeral home
from Boing Boing
- Secret super-copyright treaty MEMO leaked
from Boing Boing
- *Number 321* * Devil’s Diary* Charles Biro
- Broadcasters fight hard against public use of blank spectrum
from Boing Boing
- Earth from Mars — photo
from Boing Boing
- Obscurity of the Day: Radiobituaries
from Stripper’s Guide
- My new graphic novel for sale and as a free, remixable, shareable download
from Boing Boing
- Random Comics News Story Round-Up
from The Comics Reporter
- Go, Look: Three By Richard Thompson
from The Comics Reporter
- BTA Photo Album
from Big Time Attic
- Rock Atlas Wins First Place
from Big Time Attic
- June 9, 2008: Terror in Akihabara
- History Channel on Bilderberg Group
from Boing Boing
- Sketchbook #51
from FLOG! Entries
- Spiegelman sketchbook in McSweeney’s
from FLOG! Entries
- Frank King’s 1952 Xmas Card
from FLOG! Entries
- Little Man Press exhibit at Walker Art Center
from Jim Flora
- Big Buck Bunny: CC-licensed animated short made with free/open animation tool Blender
from Boing Boing
- Sketchbook #52
from FLOG! Entries
- Frank King’s 1955 Xmas Card
from FLOG! Entries
- From the Beanworld Archives!
- Mike Peters Videos
from Mike Lynch Cartoons
- Your drawing day requests
from HOBOTOPIA
- The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala
from BibliOdyssey
- Video tour of New Yorker cartoonist’s studio
- Sketchbook #53
from FLOG! Entries
- Frank King’s 1958 Xmas Card
from FLOG! Entries
- Post-Bang: Art Spigelman and Gary Panter in Conversation
- The Seven Faces of Congorilla
- Jessie Wilcox Smith 1863 ~ 1935 A selection of her…
- The Evil Cornucopia
from Nedor-A-Day
- Ozark Witches
- Bride of the Swamp
- Obscurity of the Day: Music Row Joe
from Stripper’s Guide
- The Spirit: Meet Ellen Dolan
- Frank Wing (1873-1956)
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Burne Hogarth 1911 ~ 1996 An assortment of his Tarzan
- The Peculiar Fish
- Gluyas Williams (1888-1982)
from Yesterday’s Papers
- W J Roberts
from Bear Alley
- Quality Crossover – Feature Comics #71 – Part 5
- Pinups: Eldon Dedini’s Playboy Cartoons
- Morgue Bait
- Black Magic in a Slinky Gown
- The Fighting Yank: Quest for the Micro-Film
from Nedor-A-Day
- *Number 320* * Jungle Vengeance*
- Frank Beck (1893-1962)
from Yesterday’s Papers
- James Robert Williams (1888-1957)
from Yesterday’s Papers
- *Weird Terror #8 ~ Nov/1953* *Cover art by* *Don Heck*
- Illustration: Dulac’s Tanglewood Tales
- It Happened in Montana
from Punch in Canada
- Jim Masterson
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Weird Bells of Wozzeck
- Judy of the Jungle: The Treasure of Lobengula!
from Nedor-A-Day
- Herriman Saturday
from Stripper’s Guide
- Erwin L. Hess (1913-1999)
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Clare Briggs (1875-1930)
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Day’s We’ll Never Forget
from Yesterday’s Papers
- *Reed Crandall* 1917 ~ 1982 Crandall’s illustrations
- Thomas Aloysius “TAD†Dorgan (1877 -1929)
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Rufus
from Nedor-A-Day
- Jim Ivey’s Sunday Comics
from Stripper’s Guide
- The Comics Journal Message Board :: View topic – Woodring’s Museum of Love & Mystery
- The Comics Journal Message Board :: View topic – Feiffer’s ‘The Lonely Machine’ and Chris Ware
- The Comics Journal Message Board :: View topic – KIRBY–What Happened
- The Comics Journal Message Board :: View topic – Those $25,000,000 Shmoos
- SHAWNA GORE ON DARK HORSE’S HERBIE COLLECTIONS – NEWSARAMA
- The Comics Journal Message Board :: View topic – Herbie the Fat Fury is being reprinted
- The Comics Journal Message Board :: View topic – Harvey Pekar’s foster daughter?
- skritch is the cute li’l guy for the month of may!
- The Silver Bell of Doom
- The Comics Journal Message Board :: View topic – Splendid NEMO volume two announced
- ICv2 – Fantagraphics Gets Two Adventure Strips
- The Comics Journal Message Board :: View topic – Fantagraphics to re-publish PRINCE VALIANT and WASH TUBBS!
- June 6, 2008: Kung-fu Stalin
- Arkiva Tropika – Tags – “menu”
- June 5, 2008: The grass isn’t greener
- Introspective Shorts #4
from Introspective Comics
- “iPrediction”
from In This Corner
- Creative Commons and Webcomics
- Tom Gill Stories
from Mike Lynch Cartoons
- Felix the Inventor!
from CartoonsOnFilm
- H. T. Webster (1885-1952)
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Lucky Fights It Through!
from datajunkie
- Study Shows Apes Prefer Cooked Meals
from Monkeys In The News
- Registration is now open for 24 Hour Comics Day 2008
from 24 Hour Comics Day
- A few quick links
from THE BEAT
- cute li’l guy for may update
- Little Orphan Annie collection due out this month
from The Daily Cartoonist
- Zombie caterpillars controlled by voodoo wasps
- ICv2 – Dark Horse to Publish Kurtzman’s ‘Trump’
- Mark Lansdown’s Comic Character Pinbacks
- Al Jaffee’s Tall Tales
from Sandbox World
- Monday Diversion – Bluto in Drag
from Popeye Animator ID
- Saturday Diversion – Goonland Imagery
from Popeye Animator ID
- Wednesday Diversion – Fleischer Imagery Follow-up
from Popeye Animator ID
- Jim Davis Ponders Garfield Minus Garfield
from Neatorama
- Drawing Day 08 (June 7, 2008)
- Cheap 3D printer can copy doorknobs, plastic objects, itself
from Boing Boing Gadgets
- CCL Podcast #174 – Al Capp’s Complete Shmoo Archives
- EVER SINCE ADAM AND EVE
from Mike Lynch Cartoons
- Random Comics News Story Round-Up
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.
- The Runaway Lamb 1
- Sketchbook #56
from FLOG! Entries
- Frank King’s 1960 Xmas Card
from FLOG! Entries
- Sketchbook #55
from FLOG! Entries
- Frank King’s 1961 Xmas Card
from FLOG! Entries
- Illustration: Artzybasheff’s Diablerie
- Dixie Dugan
- Beauty And The Beast
- All’s Fair?
- The Fighting Yank vs. The Gremlin
from Nedor-A-Day
- Orgy of Death
- *Number 322* * How deep is death?
- Obscurity of the Day: The Wish Twins and Aladdin’s Lamp
from Stripper’s Guide
we has a winnah!
skritch is the cute li’l guy for the month of may!
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!
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…
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.
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.