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Interesting Links: April 30th, 2008

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.

One more example of Polly and Her Pals from John K via Bugpowder, where it no longer seems to reside.

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.

Interesting Links: April 29th, 2008

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.

One more example of Polly and Her Pals from John K via Bugpowder, where it no longer seems to reside.

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.

Interesting Links: April 28th, 2008