My good friend Tony Brown pointed out that there is a Brother Theodore documentary called To My Great Chagrin coming out soon! See the preview here.
Author Archives: STWALLSKULL
Interesting Links: April 30th, 2008
- BBtv — Jack Chick, animated: “Somebody Goofed,” by Syd and Rodney
from Boing Boing
- Bill Griffith Video Interviews
from Mike Lynch Cartoons
- Self-portrait of Franklin Morris Howarth.
- Attention Crimestoppers!
from datajunkie
- SF Pulp Eye Candy
from datajunkie
- Hannes Bok Portfolios
from datajunkie
- Mr. A is Mr. A
from datajunkie
- A Brief Berni Wrightson Retrospective
from datajunkie
- A GALAXY OF WOOD!
from datajunkie
- Wha’ happen’ to the last post? Well let’s try some Pulp-o-rama!
from datajunkie
- Aurora Plastics
from datajunkie
- The ORIGINAL Black Cat
from datajunkie
- And again once more… It’s Wally Wood!
from datajunkie
- Late ’60s SF art of Vaughn Bode´!
from datajunkie
- More Vaughn Bode´ SF art!
from datajunkie
- Don Martin…Science Fiction Artist!?!
from datajunkie
- Famous Fantastic Mysteries!
from datajunkie
- Virgil Finlay & time de-compression!
from datajunkie
- Virgil Finlay – Master of the FANTASTIC!
from datajunkie
- The Sublime SF Artistry of Virgil Finlay!
from datajunkie
- More SF and Virgil Finlay too!
from datajunkie
- Even more Virgil Finlay and 2000 Plus!
from datajunkie
- The Wonderful World of Virgil Finlay Part 2 & More!
from datajunkie
- More Virgil Finlay and SF OTR!
from datajunkie
- More Virgil Finlay… Yet Again – One More Time!
from datajunkie
- Mo’ Eye Candy!
from datajunkie
- Scientifiction!
from datajunkie
- World of Wood!
from datajunkie
- More Wally Wood SF Art!
from datajunkie
- More Wood!
from datajunkie
- Hooray for Wally Wood!
from datajunkie
- Another Shaver Update!
from datajunkie
- HIDEOSITIES
from datajunkie
- The Fantastic World of Hannes Bok!
from datajunkie
- The Amazing Fantastic Other Worlds of Astounding Imagination!
from datajunkie
- The Science Fiction Art of H. W. McCauley.
from datajunkie
- Jack Davis Horror Art
from datajunkie
- More Astounding SF Covers!
from datajunkie
- The Science Fiction Art of Alex Schomburg
from datajunkie
- A More Complete Richard S. Shaver Checklist!
from datajunkie
- More van Vogt!
from datajunkie
- Jack Kirby Monsterwerks!
from datajunkie
- More Kirby Monsterwerks!
from datajunkie
- Kirby DC Kover Kollecktion!
from datajunkie
- Well, ya see, i’ve been busy…
from datajunkie
- Gorgo-riffic!
from datajunkie
- Kirby’s Speak-Out Series!
from datajunkie
- KIRBY KARDZ!
from datajunkie
- Nyoka Vs The Black Cat
from datajunkie
- The World that’s Coming… Is HERE!
from datajunkie
- 7) Black and White Re-Prints of Pre-Code Horror Comics as pdfs
from datajunkie
- 6) Pre-Code books as pdfs!
from datajunkie
- 3)The finest in obscure pulps!
from datajunkie
- 2) Weirdo comics you’ll NEVER see anywhere else!
from datajunkie
- 1) Collections that we’ll NEVER see!
from datajunkie
- 10) War, Huh, Good God! What is it good for?
from datajunkie
- 9) 2D or not 2D, that is the question….
from datajunkie
- datajunkie is back! Now in 3-D!
from PCL LinkDump
- Primate Expert Called Back From Africa To Help Capture Polk County Monkeys
from Monkeys In The News
- Monster of the Mist
- Debbie Drechsler interview
from FLOG! Entries
- Slate on Bill Mauldin
from FLOG! Entries
- Land of Terror *Frazetta cover to the 1964 Ace Edition
- *Unpublished prelim by RGK*
- Back to the Stone Age ~ 1937
- Tanar of Pellucidar ~ 1930
- Pellucidar ~ 1923
- *Edgar Rice Burroughs* 1875 ~ 1950
- Aladdin and Alice
from Yesterday’s Papers
- *Number 301* * Lay off my roof, goof!* Wolverton
- Comicspace/Webcomics Nation Merger: The Interview
from ComicMix
- Del Close Close Up, by Mike Gold
from ComicMix
- Making the Most of Online Resources
from Manga Xanadu
- Apr. 30, 2008: Thoughtless and cruel
- WFMU’s Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison from Apr 29, 2008
- thinking about food and teeth on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
- It was an accident! on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
- Taxes make me panic! on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
- fine and dandy on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
- slightly sloppy on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
- New Strips! Viola, Vivian, and Uncle Remus!
from The Barnacle Blog
- MORE BOBBY SOX by Marty Links
from Mike Lynch Cartoons
- The Language Of Cartoons
from all kinds of stuff
- Modern-Mechanix Round-UP
from Boing Boing Gadgets
- Colossal Squid Thawing; Hints at Even Bigger Beasts
- Hard Evidence of Voting Machine Addition Errors
from Slashdot
- Get a free copy of Hogan’s Alley
from The Daily Cartoonist
- Françoise Mouly at Length
from Kids’ Comics
- Brazil: Dwarf Woodpecker, Legless Lizard, and 12 Other New Species Found
from Cryptomundo.com
- CR Newsmaker Interview: Charles Brownstein of the CBLDF
from The Comics Reporter
- No hugs, no lessons
from THE BEAT
- Love Shack: 1941
- Jason Lutes, John Stanley, Charles Vess and More!
from Myrant
- Cheating
from Coyote vs. Wolf
- BILL WATTERSON’S POST CARTOONS
from Matt Tauber
- BILL WATTERSON POST CARTOON #2
from Matt Tauber
- BILL WATTERSON POST CARTOON #3
from Matt Tauber
- BILL WATTERSON POST CARTOON #4
from Matt Tauber
- WATTERSON POST CARTOON #5
from Matt Tauber
- Nonsense Lyrics: Aba Daba Honeymoon
from A Blog of Bosh
- The Woozlebeasts
from A Blog of Bosh
- The Laughable Looloos
from A Blog of Bosh
- More on Peter Newell
from A Blog of Bosh
- Gustave Verbeek’s Monotypes
from A Blog of Bosh
- Animation News
from A Blog of Bosh
- The Quadrille
from A Blog of Bosh
- Joge-e: Two-Way Pictures
from A Blog of Bosh
- Dye Inoculation by Peter Newell
from A Blog of Bosh
- Scientist Warns Of Ape Human Hybrid
from Monkeys In The News
- Bat-nam
from PCL LinkDump
Lutefisk Sushi Volume C
I’m participating in and co-curating the Cartoonist Conspiracy‘s third Lutefisk Sushi event opening this Friday, May 2nd.
We have over 50 Minnesota cartoonists participating this time around. As with the two previous shows, the focus of the show will be on a huge box set of mini-comics. Around 50 mini-comics for $25, in a gorgeous, silkscreened box set, limited to an edition of 150.
Other features at the show will include a fantastic overview of the work of featured artist Kevin Cannon, a “Potty Humor” exhibit, and a working, hands-on zoetrope built by Volume B’s featured artist Ken Avidor.
Click the image above to visit the Lutefisk Sushi Volume C website, and learn more about the show. In addition to the opening, the show will be up all month, with special events happening during Art-A-Whirl. I hope to see you there!
Lutefisk Sushi Volume C Opening
Friday May 2nd, 7PM-10PM
Altered Esthetics (alteredesthetics.com)
1224 Quincy St. NE
Minneapolis, MN 55413
Free Comic Book Day… get your free issue of Hogan’s Alley
Free Comic Book Day is this weekend (Saturday, May 3rd), and it looks like there is going to be a lot of marvelous stuff available for free at comic shops around the world. In addition to the stuff in comic stores, the wonderful comics history and cartooning magazine Hogan’s Alley is offering a free issue to those who email them for one on Saturday.
Here’s the info:
Mark your calendars for this Saturday, May 3: Free Comic Book Day!
Send us an e-mail ON THAT DATE with your mailing address, and we’ll
send you a FREE issue of Hogan’s Alley! No obligations, no strings
attached; the only thing it will cost you is several hours as you
enjoy the issue. (This offer is valid for all U.S. residents, whether
you’re a current subscriber or not.) Remember the one condition–we
must receive your e-mail request on Free Comic Book Day, not the day before or the day after.
The email address is hoganmag at gmail dot com.
Crumbling Paper: Polly! When Your Own Sweet Daughter Cries, You May as Well Give Up (strip #2)
Here’s an example I scanned of Polly and Her Pals from 1914 by Cliff Sterrett.
Click the image to view the full strip.
Click here to read more examples of Polly and Her Pals at Barnacle Press.
See more examples of Polly and Her Pals from 1936 at the ASIFA Animation Archive.
See another beautiful example of Polly and Her Pals at Michael Sporn Animation, Inc.’s Splog.
One more example of Polly and Her Pals from Shorpy.
See some more Polly and Her Pals (and Dot and Dash, a header strip for Polly by Sterrett) at Coconino World.
Here are some examples of Polly and Her Pals translated to French, from a French collection of 1929-1930 Polly strips which appears to be in print.
Click here to read more about Cliff Sterrett at lambiek.net.
Click here to read more about Polly and Her Pals at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.
Click here to read more about Cliff Sterrett at stevestiles.com.
THE CARTOON CRYPT: Corporal Norakuro (1934)
Interesting Links: April 29th, 2008
- A D+Q Links Sampler
from Drawn and Quarterly
- Pop!
from Comic Book Resources
- Lying In The Gutters
from Comic Book Resources
- TROUBLE BREWING
from The Woodring Monitor
- Before You Read This…
from Todd’s Blog
- The Golden Amazon
- Mr. Taco and other scrawlings
from HOBOTOPIA
- Whitney Darrow, Jr. illustrations for Woman’s Day magazine’s guide to the 1964 New York World’s Fair
- SOUTH SEA CARTOONS compiled & edited by Harold Myers
from Mike Lynch Cartoons
- Never Been
from The Ephemerist
- “Twitterpated†Owls
- New Strip! The Works of Hans Horina!
from The Barnacle Blog
- mmk_kobayashi’s funny photostream
from Boing Boing
- Fleen Guest Column: Christopher Wright In, Threat And Menace
- Sketchbooks
from the monologuist
- Some Drawings…
from the monologuist
- 08.07
from the monologuist
- Comic Cons are Doomed To Suck? Not Hardly!
- Whip the Wind
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Strongbow the Mighty II
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Torchy gains a pound
- Caricature: Ernesto Garcia Cabral (aka Chango)
- The Flayed Hand
- Dell Publishing’s “The Funnies” Part 7
from Stripper’s Guide
- *Number 300* * Calling all Video Rangers!*
- #25 roller raccoon
- The Cartoonist Conspiracy on Snark Infested Waters
from CONSPIRE!
- Apr. 29, 2008: The sheltering arms of Dullsville
- World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893
- Anatomical museum photographs
from Boing Boing
- The Comics Journal Message Board :: View topic – Percy Crosby appreciation thread
- Milt Gross ANIMATED Cartoons: Jitterbug Follies and Wanted: No Master
from Cartoon SNAP
- Comics: Algy HOT One-Pager by Dan Gordon
from Cartoon SNAP
- Patsy Pancake from Milt Gross Funnies
from Cartoon SNAP
- The Bizarre History of 10 Common Sayings
from Cracked: All Posts
- 200 Comics In Under 12 Hours
from Cracked: All Posts
- Modern-Mechanix Round-UP
from Boing Boing Gadgets
- CR Sunday Interview: Bob Levin
from The Comics Reporter
- *Warwick Goble* 1862 ~ 1943 *A somewhat forgotten great
- WORLD’S WORST COMIC BOOK MUSEUM
- Feature – Features – Comics For the People – Portland Mercury
- 1949 King Features Exhibit Cards
from Mike Lynch Cartoons
- Mutt and Jeff being preserved
- Yodel! (MP3s)
- Whitney
from Comics Comics
- Beanworld Going To Dark Horse!
- Kuper for Zozolala
from The Ephemerist
- Renaissance Era Costumes
from BibliOdyssey
- Interview: Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian Pt 4 (of 4)
- Home Page: Censoring the Eleven
from MichaelBarrier.com
- Go, Look: Chaz Truog
from The Comics Reporter
- Orangutan Spotted Fishing With Sharpened Stick
from Monkeys In The News
- Dell Publishing’s “The Funnies” Part 6
from Stripper’s Guide
- Righteous Smackdown of Bodysnatching Gorilla
- New Strip! Uncle Mun!
from The Barnacle Blog
- History Channel excerpt: 1950s Senate hearings
from Sequential Study
Crumbling Paper: Polly – When Pa Digs in He Has to Stay in (strip #1)
Boy have our friends at the fantastic online comic strip library Barnacle Press been on a roll lately! They’ve posted a collection of more of Swinnerton’s Dear Little Katy, which I published examples of recently. They just posted a bunch of examples of the bizarre and mischievous Uncle Mun (which I’ve also published examples of). Last week they posted examples of one of the earliest daily comic strips, The Hallroom Boys. Best of all, they put up an enormous library of one of the funniest and most visually inventive comic strips of all time, Cliff Sterrett’s Polly and Her Pals. Don’t miss this one. It is a travesty that the few reprint books there have been of this strip are all out of print.
Here’s an example I scanned of Polly and Her Pals by Cliff Sterrett, from 1921. I’ll have a couple more of these this week.
Click the image to view the full strip.
Click here to read more examples of Polly and Her Pals at Barnacle Press.
See more examples of Polly and Her Pals from 1936 at the ASIFA Animation Archive.
See another beautiful example of Polly and Her Pals at Michael Sporn Animation, Inc.’s Splog.
One more example of Polly and Her Pals from Shorpy.
See some more Polly and Her Pals (and Dot and Dash, a header strip for Polly by Sterrett) at Coconino World.
Here are some examples of Polly and Her Pals translated to French, from a French collection of 1929-1930 Polly strips which appears to be in print.
Click here to read more about Cliff Sterrett at lambiek.net.
Click here to read more about Polly and Her Pals at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.
Click here to read more about Cliff Sterrett at stevestiles.com.
THE CARTOON CRYPT: Private 2nd Class Norakuro (1933)
Norakuro Nitohei: Kyoren no Maki/Enshu no Maki aka Private 2nd Class Norakuro (1933) animated by Yasuji Murata. If you’ve read the sixth issue of the incredible art comics anthology Kramer’s Ergot, you may remember Norakuro from there.
Interesting Links: April 28th, 2008
- Gale of the “Gundagai”
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Pop!
from Comic Book Resources
- Progressive Ruin presents…the End of Civilization.
- Dealing with the Comics Press: Remember to Do It
from Myriad Issues
- New Strip! Polly and Her Pals!
from The Barnacle Blog
- *Number 298* *Ghost Rider and The Haunted Tomb*
- *Virgil Finlay* *His illustrations to* The Ship of Ishtar
- New Strip! Dear Little Katy!
from The Barnacle Blog
- Horror of Mixed Torsos!
- Like a Chicken Without a Head
- *Number 299* * Billy and Bonny Bee to the rescue!*
- MicroCon 2008: A Transformerative Experience!
from Big Time Attic
- Sat. Open Studio, May 3, noon to 4 p.m.
from CONSPIRE!
- New to the shop…
- Apr. 28, 2008: It takes a lot of love to keep it going
- Ephemera: Are you a Tiki fan?
from Martin Klasch
- Ephemera: Soviet lemonade labels
from Martin Klasch
- The Enchanted Square (1947)
from Classic Cartoons
- The Phantom Empire
- Murderer’s Row
- Japanese Crepe Paper Fairy Tales
from BibliOdyssey
- Video: Milton Glaser, Chip Kidd, and Dave Eggers talk about Book Design
- *Warning!* The pair of stories posted below may not. be for all
- Chocolate Cheeks for 4/25/08
from FLOG! Entries
- Sketchbook #28
from FLOG! Entries
- Watercolors of irradiated mutant bugs
from Boing Boing
- Herriman Saturday
from Stripper’s Guide
- Humorous Artists of Australasia
from Yesterday’s Papers
- New Strip! The Hallroom Boys!
from The Barnacle Blog
- *My favoite **EC **title* *Shock Suspense Stories*