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Crumbling Paper: No Wedding Bells for Him! (strip #2)

Posted on April 22, 2008 by STWALLSKULL

Here’s an example I scanned of No Wedding Bells for Him! from 1906 by Jimmy Swinnerton.

Click the image to view the full strip.

Click here to read examples of Swinnerton’s Little Jimmy at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read examples of Swinnerton’s Mr. Jack at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read examples of Swinnerton’s Mr. Batch at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read examples of Swinnerton’s Mr. Jack at The Stripper’s Guide

Read an article from 1906 about Jimmy Swinnerton at The Stripper’s Guide.

See an example of Swinnerton’s Mount Ararat (second series) at The Stripper’s Guide.

See examples of Swinnerton’s An Embarrassing Moment at The Stripper’s Guide.

See examples of Swinnerton’s Canyon Kiddies, Mr. Jack, Mount Ararat and Little Jimmy, as well as some of his landscape paintings, on Coconino Classics.

See examples of a variety of strips by Swinnerton at Ohio State University’s Newspaper Cartoon Artists online exhibit.

Click here to read about Jimmy Swinnerton at lambiek.net.

Click here to read more about Little Jimmy at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

Click here to read more about Jimmy Swinnerton at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

THE CARTOON CRYPT: Teeny Tiny Samurai Versus the Polka-Dot Demon

Posted on April 22, 2008 by STWALLSKULL

This cartoon is called Issun-boshi no Shusse (1929) on YouTube. It appears to feature an ancestor of S. Clay Wilson’s Checkered Demon. Searching for information on it I ran across this page refers to it as The Tiny One Makes it Big, and attributes it to the production company Nakano Mangasha. That page also is selling dvd’s that include a number of the old Japanese cartoons featured here recently, as well as many others, in their Japanese Anime Classic Collection [4-DVD box set].

Interesting Links: April 22nd, 2008

Posted on April 22, 2008 by STWALLSKULL

The Missing Panel!

Posted on April 21, 2008 by STWALLSKULL

Now that’s service! Less than six hours after I made the last post with the Dear Little Katy strip missing a panel, our friend Thrillmer! from Barnacle Press has provided a scan of the missing panel from the strip! Thanks, Thrillmer!

Note that if you haven’t checked out the Barnacle Press site yet, you should do yourself a favor and get over there. It is easily the biggest repository of comics from the early history of comics on the web… I link to them almost daily. I hope this quick response means Barnacle Press will be posting more examples of Dear Little Katy!

Crumbling Paper: Sweet, Charming Katy

Posted on April 21, 2008 by STWALLSKULL

Here’s an example I scanned of Dear Little Katy from 1904 by Jimmy Swinnerton. Dear Little Katy would seem to be Little Jimmy in drag. The penultimate panel 10 has crumbled to dust somewhere… if anyone wants to draw a version of the missing panel I’ll post it here.

Click the image to view the full strip.

UPDATE: The missing panel has been found, thanks to Thrillmer! from Barnacle Press. You can see it here.

Click here to read examples of Swinnerton’s Little Jimmy at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read examples of Swinnerton’s Mr. Jack at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read examples of Swinnerton’s Mr. Batch at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read examples of Swinnerton’s Mr. Jack at The Stripper’s Guide

Read an article from 1906 about Jimmy Swinnerton at The Stripper’s Guide.

See an example of Swinnerton’s Mount Ararat (second series) at The Stripper’s Guide.

See examples of Swinnerton’s An Embarrassing Moment at The Stripper’s Guide.

See examples of Swinnerton’s Canyon Kiddies, Mr. Jack, Mount Ararat and Little Jimmy, as well as some of his landscape paintings, on Coconino Classics.

See examples of a variety of strips by Swinnerton at Ohio State University’s Newspaper Cartoon Artists online exhibit.

Click here to read about Jimmy Swinnerton at lambiek.net.

Click here to read more about Little Jimmy at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

Click here to read more about Jimmy Swinnerton at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

THE CARTOON CRYPT: The Black Cat (1929)

Posted on April 21, 2008 by STWALLSKULL

That’s how it is. That’s how it goes. Kuro Nyago aka The Black Cat (1929) by Noburo Ofuji.

Interesting Links: April 21st, 2008

Posted on April 21, 2008 by STWALLSKULL

Obscure Images: Wally Wood’s Spawn of Venus

Posted on April 18, 2008 by STWALLSKULL

It’s pretty amazing the treasure you can find on Ebay without even buying anything. I’m talking about the images that get posted there. Like these ones. Here are the images for an auction I ran across here for the complete pencils for an unfinished Wally Wood story for EC comics. Here is what the auction description says about them:

WALLY WOOD (1927 – 1981) graduated from New York’s School of Visual Arts, and was an early assistant on THE SPIRIT. His early work includes romance stories for Fox and science fiction stories for Avon, which led to his joining the EC staff in 1950, where he usually worked on the science fiction titles, while also contributing some amazing work to SHOCK SUSPENSTORIES. After the Comics Code came into effect, Wood continued to contribute to MAD, while also moving on to Marvel, where he worked on early issues of DAREDEVIL and THE AVENGERS. In the late ’60s, Wood joined Tower Comics as art director, where he created T.H.U.N.D.E.R. AGENTS. He also created the sexy CANNON and SALLY FORTH for Overseas Weekly in 1971.

This is the original pencil art for an never-finished complete 8-page story titled “The Spawn of Venus” that was slated to appear in a third issue of Three-Dimensional EC Classics, and was based on a story drawn by Al Feldstein in Weird Science #6. These pages are in very good condition with avearge wear and aging; there are also doodles and loose sketches on the backs of several pages. The pages have an image area of 13″ x 18″.

Here are the pages…

Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4
Page 5
Page 6
Page 7
Page 8

These are probably big enough to reasonably ink if printed. If anyone out there wants to ink them, I would love to link to your inking job.

Crumbling Paper: And SAM Laughed! (strip #2)

Posted on April 18, 2008 by STWALLSKULL

Here’s an example I scanned of Sam from 1905 by Jimmy Swinnerton.

Please be advised that like many of the comic strips of the era, it contains offensive racial depictions. If this sort of thing offends you, you may not want to view it.