- Air Hawk
from Yesterday’s Papers
- RIP: “father of chaos theory,” Edward Lorenz
from Boing Boing
- Waiting rooms for hitchhikers – lost innovation from 1939
from Boing Boing
- Colorful Illustrations 93°C – Please DO NOT buy this book!
from Apefluff
- Heroes & Villians at CHG
from FLOG! Entries
- Comic Book Storage
from Kleefeld on Comics
- 24 Hour Comics Day 2008
- Biography: Capps Off- Li’l Abner Without Apologies
- Penciling and Inking Cartoons
from Mike Lynch Cartoons
- POPEYE: Bobby London’s Final Weeks
from Mike Lynch Cartoons
- McCloud Family Tourcasts – 4-17-2008
- *Number 293* * Bikini babes in space*
- HIstory of fandom wiki launches
from THE BEAT
- Young, Hip and Wild About Comic Books
from THE BEAT
- Midnight Movie: Bollywood v. Trio Da Da Da
- Make Your Own Lutefisk Sushi T-Shirts!
from Big Time Attic
- Sushi C Box Printing
from Big Time Attic
- Apr. 18, 2008: Every planet we reach is dead
- Gary Groth talks to CBC
from FLOG! Entries
- Sketchbook #19
from FLOG! Entries
- BRACES
from PULPHOPE
- The Chronicles of Saxony
from BibliOdyssey
- Comcast disconnects Dave Winer
from Boing Boing Gadgets
- In The Mystic Garden
from Rick Veitch
- FUNNY FACE DRINK-MIX CHARACTERS TO BE RESURRECTED
from Neato Coolville
- Celebrities Very Much at Home
- American Elf Archives Expanded
from TalkAboutComics Blog
Author Archives: STWALLSKULL
Crumbling Paper: And SAM Just Roared! (strip #1)
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.
Click the image to view the full strip.
Click here to read examples of Swinnerton’s Mr. Jack at Barnacle Press.
Click here to read examples of Little Jimmy 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.
Click here to read about Jimmy Swinnerton at lambiek.net.
Click here to read more about Mr. Jack at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.
Click here to read more about Jimmy Swinnerton at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.
Interesting Links: April 17th, 2008
- Treehouses for All Occasions
from mental_floss Blog
- Creator Q&A: Chip Kidd
from Blog@Newsarama
- Eisner in PS Magazine Online
from The Ephemerist
- Boring Postcards
- National Hairball Awareness Day is Coming!
from PCL LinkDump
- Roy, Ollie, Tom
- Sketchbook #18
from FLOG! Entries
- MENTORS CORNER/from JESSICA ABEL
- Obscurity of the Day: Just Little Ones
from Stripper’s Guide
- “Treat?”
from In This Corner
- Apr. 17, 2008: A tree grows in Dullsville
- How To Survive Nuclear War with Marionettes
from PuppetVision Blog
- Pulp Magazine Expert Avi Abrams Interview
from ephemera
- Pascal Blanchet cartoons and illustration
- Man-Eater!
- Preserving Our History in a Tomb (Dec, 1938)
from Modern Mechanix
- Things You Don’t Know About Modern Elevators [Elevators]
from Gizmodo
- #21 iggy
- Ernesto “Hill” Olvera
from PCL LinkDump
- We Have Seen the Enemy, and It Is a Pickle
from PCL LinkDump
- Members Preview: Rebel Visions
from FLOG! Entries
- *Bernie Wrightson* Apparitions Portfolio
- Smithsonian images join the Commons
from Boing Boing
- Pulp Covers
from The Ward-O-Matic
- Brad Bird and Management
- Whither Victor Reinganum?
- Pinups: Jack O’Brien and Milo Kinn’s Girlie Cartoons
- Penny Bibliography
from Yesterday’s Papers
- 27 Thoughts On Blogging For The Artist
from ProBlogger Blog Tips
- Ray Fenwick’s coming out party
from FLOG! Entries
- The Pirate Bay Launches Uncensored Blogging Service
from TorrentFreak
- Public ‘skine.art Moleskine blog
from Boing Boing
- Magnetic levitation
from MAKE Magazine
- Here Comes MicroCon
- Arrow Pontiac
from David Steinlicht
Crumbling Paper: After a Meeting of the Women’s Clubs on Mt. Ararat (strip #2)
Here’s an example I scanned of Mount Ararat from 1904 by Jimmy Swinnerton.
Click the image to view the full strip.
See an example of Swinnerton’s Mount Ararat (second series) at The Stripper’s Guide.
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 examples of Swinnerton’s An Embarrassing Moment at The Stripper’s Guide.
Click here to read examples of Swinnerton’s Mr. Jack at Barnacle Press.
Click here to read examples of Little Jimmy at Barnacle Press.
Click here to read examples of Swinnerton’s Mr. Batch at Barnacle Press.
Click here to read about Jimmy Swinnerton at lambiek.net.
Click here to read more about Mr. Jack at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.
Click here to read more about Jimmy Swinnerton at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.
Brother Theodore Wednesdays #9
Interesting Links: April 16, 2008
- The Beast in the Basement: 1960’s sound-effect pipe organ
from Boing Boing Gadgets
- COLLEGE LAUGHS
from Mike Lynch Cartoons
- Vintagraph: WPA Art, Posters and More
- Elektro the Robot’s Sordid Stag Reel
- Joe Simon, the last living legend
from THE BEAT
- The Monkey Glands
- Alligator blood antibiotics
from Boing Boing
- Oddball Comics LIVE Presented by Scott Shaw!
from Mike Lynch Cartoons
- Gibraltar Killing Off Aggressive Monkeys
from Monkeys In The News
- Flores ‘Hobbit’ Walked More Like A Clown Than Frodo
from Monkeys In The News
- Goofy Gremlins in color
from all kinds of stuff
- Today’s Video Link
from news from me
- Interview: Mike Allred Pt. 1
- *Number 292* * Doll Man meets the Mother Goose Gang*
- The Comics…Very Funny
from Badmouth
- Obscurity of the Day: Duke Handy
from Stripper’s Guide
- Apr. 16, 2008: Anyone else not enjoying themselves?
- Hanged by the Neck
- What’s Up, Doc?
from Arflovers
- One of my favorite pieces from the comics issue of McSweeney’s
from Drawn and Quarterly
- Gottorp Kunstkammer
from BibliOdyssey
- Brad Bird on Ollie Johnston
- *Edgar Rice Burroughs* 1875 ~ 1950 *The Westerns*
- Kung Fu Bible
- The Big Bank Robbery
from Jim Flora
- Raise your hand …
from Jim Flora
- Over on the *Wizard* Site…
from news from me
- Captain Power
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Sneak peek photos: Explainers
from FLOG! Entries
- Publishers Weekly’s Fanta news
from FLOG! Entries
- Vintage Classroom Filmstrip converted to YouTube
from Boing Boing
- Story: Writing Cartoons Pt 2- A Continuity Emerges
- Al Jaffee original Humbug art
from FLOG! Entries
- Postcard of performing chimp at Jungle Land
from Boing Boing
- Fatty Finn
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Farmers make a killing by killing 150,00 pigs for no reason
from Boing Boing
- WFMU’s Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison from April 15, 2008
- Atlas Tales – The Information Resource for Timely/Atlas/Marvel…
- Feature: Taste Test: Nutriloaf
from A.V. Club
- Artist draws entire yearbook
from Boing Boing
- Sketchbook #17
from FLOG! Entries
- Obscurity of the Day: Casey
from Stripper’s Guide
- Newsarama talks to Leah Hayes
from FLOG! Entries
- #20 wanda
- Amazon’s Cookie Tax
from MetaFilter
- glamourpuss Editorial Meeting 04/14/08
Crumbling Paper: The County Fair on Mount Ararat (strip #1)
Here’s an example I scanned of Mount Ararat from 1903 by Jimmy Swinnerton. I really like old sprawling, gag-filled one-panel strips like this and Outcault’s Yellow Kid.
Click the image to view the full strip.
See an example of Swinnerton’s Mount Ararat (second series) at The Stripper’s Guide.
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 examples of Swinnerton’s An Embarrassing Moment at The Stripper’s Guide.
Click here to read examples of Swinnerton’s Mr. Jack at Barnacle Press.
Click here to read examples of Little Jimmy at Barnacle Press.
Click here to read examples of Swinnerton’s Mr. Batch at Barnacle Press.
Click here to read about Jimmy Swinnerton at lambiek.net.
Click here to read more about Mr. Jack at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.
Click here to read more about Jimmy Swinnerton at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.
THE CARTOON CRYPT: Baseball Group of Forest (1934)
Babel fish translates the title of this short YouTube video (森ã®é‡Žçƒå›£ Mori No Yakyuudan (1934)) as Baseball Group of Forest. The cranking cat tail gag may have been lifted directly from Disney’s Steamboat Willie (where a goat is getting cranked)… although that gag was probably used in a lot of cartoons.
Interesting Links: April 15th, 2008
- Hy. Mayer
- Grimm’s Fairy Tales
- Jean Valjean
- The arms race escalates between spammers and CAPTCHA
from Boing Boing Gadgets
- Ollie Johnston 1912-2008
- The Faces of Death
- GONE, JUST LIKE A TRAIN
from The Woodring Monitor
- TIRED BUT HAPPY
from The Woodring Monitor
- French Humorous Artists
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Adventures of Billy Koala
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Ronald Searle’s original dark, weird and hilarious St Trinian’s comics
from Boing Boing
- Your Comics Will Love You Back
from The Ephemerist
- Monkeys Cause Power Outage In Central Delhi
from Monkeys In The News
- Have A Question For Lynda Barry?
from The Comics Reporter
- And then there were none…
from FLOG! Entries
- Wired blog pwns the CIA’s website
from Boing Boing
- General Accounting Office has sold exclusive access to legislative history down the river to Thomson West.
from Boing Boing
- 8-year-old boy suspended for sniffing marker
from Boing Boing
- Prof’s crusade to liberate public documents
from Boing Boing
- Backpack TV transmitter from 1951
from Boing Boing
- Apr. 15, 2008: This blog certified Eisner-free
- Bizzarro Comic Tales #4
from arglebargle!
- Timm’s the Season
from arglebargle!
- Warner Club News-The Cartoon Studio in ’45
from arglebargle!
- Compleat Bob Clampett
from arglebargle!
- Happy Monkey Day!
from arglebargle!
- The Shape of Shat
from arglebargle!
- Atlanta TV Kids’ Hosts in the 1960s
from arglebargle!
- Mad about Aurora
from arglebargle!
- Ploog-Things
from arglebargle!
- Jack Kirby meets Vincent Price?
from arglebargle!
- Good Phibes
- American Elf Just Got Elfier
- Modern Mechanix Round-UP
from Boing Boing Gadgets
- Strongbow the Mighty
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Vinyl Gallery: Vintage classical album cover graphics
- *Maxfield Parrish, N. C. Wyeth* *and Frederic Remington*
- A sampling of *Remington*
- Three Hours of Panter
from Comics Comics
- Video: cat plays Theremin
from Boing Boing
- How police harassment, jailhouse snitches, and a runaway war on drugs imprisoned an innocent family
from Boing Boing
- The German “Punch”
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Old comic book depicts US suicide bomber as hero
from Boing Boing
- The Comics Journal Message Board :: View topic – Mat Brinkman’s Skeleton Jelly Comic!
- Save the Date: Sgier Show at SooVAC 5/9
from Big Time Attic
- Russia To Send Monkeys To Mars
from Monkeys In The News
- Go, Read: My Date #2
from The Comics Reporter
- Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 4/14
from THE BEAT
- Obscurity of the Day: Otto’s Auto
from Stripper’s Guide
- Random Comics News Story Round-Up
from The Comics Reporter
- The Ghost Girl
- Detour: Lorelei on Highway 52
- The Big Bank Robbery
from Jim Flora
- Interview: Jessica Abel Pt. 2 [of 3]
- The Real Adventures of Tintin
- Topfferiana
- Obadiah Oldbuck redux: James B. Sparke
from Bear Alley
- Obadiah Oldbuck redux: Beau Ogleby
from Bear Alley
- Draw 80 Characters in 15 Minutes
from Mike Lynch Cartoons
- *Number 291* * Nothing He Couldn’t Do!
- Apr. 14, 2008: One more day
- *Number 290* * Hangman and the Executioner*
Welcome to STWALLSKULL, please kick back and stay a while
I just got another plug on the fun and widely read Metafilter blog (thanks Metafilter!) for my Monkey Cartoon posts. Since this seems to be driving a lot of traffic my way today, I figured I’d write up a post on the various output of the STWALLSKULL Media Empire in hopes of keeping some of the traffic coming back.
First of all, I’ll just subtly mention that you can
Assuming you use a newsreader. For those of you not using newsreaders, they are awfully useful… Google has a very good free one if you’re interested.
ON THIS SITE
The biggest attraction on this site is probably the old historical comics I scan and reprint under the heading
Most of these comics have not been reprinted since they first appeared on a comics page… many of them are over 100 years old. Clicking on the above image will take you to the Crumbling Paper Index, a listing of the various stuff that has been posted so far.
I’ve also been running the ridiculously titled
for some time now, although it has been quite a while since it has been updated. Only 119 to go!
Other features come and go as well, but those are the most notable ones. Recently we’ve been having Brother Theodore Wednesdays, which will continue until I can’t find any more footage of the great man.
STWALLSKULL’S COMICS READING RACK
This site was initially built as a place to house my comics and other artwork. You can see much of that stuff by rolling over where it says “comics” above and clicking around in the links. Or you can just refer to this list:
- Bottomless
- Skull Lover
- Nicknames
- 24 Hours
- The Amazing Nipple Box
- The Mighty Media
- Cutesy Wootsy
- Donut Demon
- Take Me Away From the River
- Screwy Songs and Dumb Dirges
- FCC Funnies
- Anti-Communist Comics
- The Comics Trip
- 23 Skidoo
- The Electric Plastic Inflatable
- The Family Carcass
Much of it is old and embarrassing at this point, and it varies greatly in quality… but most of that stuff has already been out there for years, so what the hell.
SOAPY THE CHICKEN
In addition to the STWALLSKULL site, I maintain a sporadically updated webcomic about a dead mentally-challenged chicken with a neck of undetermined length at soapythechicken.com. You can read the entire Soapy the Chicken archive here.
ROGUES’ GALLERY
That site also has a feature called Rogues’ Gallery, in which I introduce you to a variety characters you would never want to meet. You can read those here.
I recently started a site called cute li’l guy of the day to amuse my daughter and myself. Unlike much of the above, it is kid friendly, so please pass it on to the kids in your life if you think they would like this sort of thing. Note that if you have a blog or social networking site and are looking for some free content to add to it, you can easily add the cute li’l guy of the day widget to it… go here to do so. You can subscribe to the cute li’l guy of the day here.
THE INTERNATIONAL CARTOONIST CONSPIRACY
I’m a founding member of The International Cartoonist Conspiracy, a loosely-organized, informal group of cartoonists which currently has over 20 cells operating around the world of varying degrees of activity. I maintain the website for the group, which you can see at cartoonistconspiracy.com. Any cartoonist anywhere can start a cell of the group. The site features a group blog (subscribe here), a message board, and a newsfeed of cartooning tips and tricks from around the web (subscribe here), among many other things. You can read a summary of many of the Conspiracy’s accomplishments here.
If you are in Minneapolis, the Minneapolis Cartoonist Conspiracy local is organizing it’s third fantastic Lutefisk Sushi gallery show/enormous boxed set of Minnesota mini-comics which will be happening next month… you can get more information about that here.
THE BENEVOLENT ORDER OF MONKEYS
The BOOM! is an older and more obscure conspiracy I’m involved with… I haven’t updated the site for the group in ages, unfortunately. I’ll get back to it one of these days.
WANNA HELP?
If you dig STWALLSKULL, and want to help support my activities, mentioning it and linking to it on blogs, social networking sites, message boards, etc. is always greatly appreciated. I sure do enjoy comments as well!
Currently I make no money doing this stuff, but if you want to make my day with cold, hard cash you can buy something from me in one of my Cafe Press stores:
cute li’l guy of the day store
Soapy the Chicken store
STWALLSKULL store
Mall of America Mandrill store
Thanks much for reading!