Brother Theodore Wednesdays #4
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Interesting Links: March 12th, 2008
- Milt On Clampett 3 – inbetweener, animator
from all kinds of stuff
- Show and Tell, Pt. 5
from FLOG! Entries
- Gary Panter interviewed
from FLOG! Entries
- Explainers Explained
from FLOG! Entries
- This is a book I bought a year ago.
- *Dave Stevens* 1955 ~ 2008
- Dave Stevens, 1955-2008
from MYRANT
- Illustration: The Genesis of the Golden Book Style
- That’s Horse Cents!
from Arflovers
- Contracts and money
from TalkAboutComics Blog
- The Dead Remember!
- “True” Unncanny Mysteries
- AND IN HIS HAND I SAW A BOOK
from The Woodring Monitor
- THE CURSED MOLESKINE
from The Woodring Monitor
- Exotica dance in 60s lucha libre movie
from PCL LinkDump
- THERE WAS CAKE ON THE TABLE
from The Woodring Monitor
- 200 Words with Paul Dini #4 – A Tale From The Duckside
from iFanboy
- Animation discovered on 5,200-year-old pottery
from Boing Boing
- Heroic dolphin rescues stranded whales
from Boing Boing
- *Number 273* * Kirby’s big red eye!*
- Monkey Briefly Escapes From Enclosure At Omaha Zoo
from Monkeys In The News
- Mar. 12, 2008: The kind men like
- WFMU’s Antique Phonograph Music Program from Mar 11,…
Crumbling Paper: Uncle Mun (strip #1)
Here’s an example I scanned of Uncle Mun from May 1, 1910 by Fred Nankivell.
Update: I earlier attributed this strip to Frank Nankivell. In the comments here, according to this Frank Nankivell’s granddaughter, Jody Nankivell Herriott, he had nothing to do with this strip, and the person that did do this strip was named Fred, not Frank.
Click the image to view the full strip.
Click here to read another Uncle Mun example at The Stripper’s Guide.
Interesting Links: March 11th, 2008
- Disney’s “ZOGM terrists gonna kill us all!!!1!ONE” patch
from Boing Boing
- John P explains it all
from Drawn and Quarterly
- Doug Wright’s Tickytacky Township
from Yesterday’s Papers
- The pleasures and perils of chasing book thieves
from Boing Boing
- A batch of Paul’s incredible *futurist* covers
- Herriman Saturday
from Stripper’s Guide
- Anthropomorphic Trade Cards
from BibliOdyssey
- Go Vampire!
- Day of Panic
- Steve Ditko from *Charlton*
- THAT DAMNED KURTZMAN, II
from Stephen DeStefano
- Jack Davis from Atlas’ Frontier Western #5 ~ Oct/1956
- Dupuy and Berberian Report
from Matt Madden’s blog
- eBook: Zim’s Cartoons and Caricatures
- The Thropp Family was written by Lawrence Lariar
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Al Williamson & Gray Morrow from *Atlas’* Western Outlaws #14
- Chilly Chamber Music
- Dust Unto Dust
- Camel in the circus
from The Ephemerist
- Lucky Moon by Albert Henry (1912)
- Links: Comics and Education
from Kids’ Comics
- School Library Journal Spotlights Comics
from Kids’ Comics
- Webcomics Economic Models Still In Flux
from The Comics Reporter
- Darwyn Cooke at MegaCon
- A Casual Baptism
from BibliOdyssey
- Chocolate Cheeks for 3/7/08 (on 3/10/08)
from FLOG! Entries
- Harry Smith’s Old Weird America
from Boing Boing
- FOO Magazine was published at the end of 1951
from Yesterday’s Papers
- A Tale of Old Whiff
- Fan News from Forty Years Ago
- Good comics, for free.
from FLOG! Entries
- Briefly Noted
from news from me
- Blackhawk: The Man in the Iron Mask (Part 1)
- Hanson Records avant-garde podcast: Burroughs and Jagger
from Boing Boing
- Go, Look: Mat Brinkman Gallery Art
from The Comics Reporter
- Offset turned me POD!
from Hot Wax Mealworms
- Amazing Old Album Covers
- Self-experimentation in Scientific American
from Boing Boing
- Illustrated tombstones of alleged Ukrainian mobsters
from Boing Boing
- Clips from cult movie Rat Pfink a(nd) Boo Boo
from Boing Boing
- Michel on Torontoist
from Drawn and Quarterly
- Peg’s favorite day of the week!
from Drawn and Quarterly
- Dave Stevens, R.I.P.
from news from me
- Stincker Stickers
from FLOG! Entries
- Possessed: a documentary about hoarders
from Boing Boing
- Gup traincar
from Jim Flora
- Bob Powell *from* Two Gun Western #11 ~ July/1957
- Reed Crandall *from* Frontier Western #5 ~ Oct/1956
- Now Available: The Comics Journal Online-Only Subscriptions (with FREE preview!)
from FLOG! Entries
- Video profile of cartoonist Phoebe Gloeckner
from Boing Boing
- 1st Season Rocky and Bullwinkle – Great Design and Style
from all kinds of stuff
- Numbers
from Jim Flora
- The Avenging Corpse
- D. J. David B. Spins Comics-Tunes: The Firehouse Five Plus Two
from Arflovers
- Show and Tell, Pt. 4
from FLOG! Entries
- Presidential candidates as Monster Manual monsters
from Boing Boing
- Hogan, Smith and Skarhus GOOD MINNESOTAN #1
from file under other
- The Web Cartoonists’ Choice Awards winners
from THE BEAT
- HERBIE
from THE BEAT
- Grim Feastival
- Adam Ames (1959-1962) by Lou Fine (The Thropp Family)
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Interview: Charles Berberian and Philippe Dupuy Pt. 1
- * chortle *
from PCL LinkDump
- Monkeys Found To Combine Calls Into Sentence-Like Structures
from Monkeys In The News
- THE ABANDONED DINOSAUR WORLD
from SECRET FUN BLOG
- Yucatan Gorillas
from Cryptomundo.com
- Frank Frazetta from Durango kid #8 ~ Jan/1951
- Andy Singer and Me at the 2008 Mpls Auto Show
from Bicyclopolis
- Mar. 11, 2008: The mutant vote
- Comic Book Comics
- At the Archive
from Faso Latido
- Geek Love – New York Times
- Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co.
- From Caped Crusaders to Hoodies – WSJ.com
- Joe Orlando from *Six-Gun Western* #2 ~ March/1957
- George Woodbridge, Sid Check & Angelo Torres
- Insider’s story about Atari
from Boing Boing
- Heartline
- Frank Buck, No. 70
from Geeklog Site
- *Number 272* * Distant Shores* Syd Shores was a top artist
- Frank Wing
from Blog Flume
- Peur(s) du Noir – [Fear(s) of the Dark]
from Blog Flume
- The Birth of a UFO
- Obscurity of the Day: Adventures of Mary Ann
from Stripper’s Guide
- Chinese Spirit Papers
from PCL LinkDump
- History Of The Beanworld Action Figure!
- FBI interrogator: Torture doesn’t work, breeds jihad
from Boing Boing
- Stanley Stories
from Kids’ Comics
- Spokane Monkey That Bit Three People To Be Euthanized
from Monkeys In The News
- Go, Watch: Phoebe Gloeckner On Why
from The Comics Reporter
- Mar. 10, 2008: Another step toward the salvation of trees
- “Far Arden” pre-orders…
from Big Time Attic
- MCBA This is a drawing for a class I will be teaching sometime
from Sam’s INFATUATIONS
- GRANT MORRISON ON FINAL CRISIS – NEWSARAMA
- City Beat: Up From the Underground: Justin Green
- Internet Archive: Details: Panel Borders: Looking for Lost Girls
- Obscurity of the Day: The Country School
from Stripper’s Guide
- Examining Greek Children’s Comics
from Kids’ Comics
- Not Comics: Charles Vess’ A Midsummer Nights Dream Sculpture In Progress
from The Comics Reporter
- Scanning the brains of jazz musicians
from Boing Boing
- The Complete Archive of Laugh-Out-Loud Cats Comics
from HOBOTOPIA
- PORTADAS DE CHIQUITITO DE BLASCO (2)
from Viñetas
- PORTADAS DE CHIQUITITO DE FREIXAS (2)
from Viñetas
- 1886 book of crime in New York City available as free ebook
from Boing Boing
- Giant comic collection donated to U of Minnesota
from Boing Boing
- Vampires Also Die!
- Art Deco In Animation Presentation
- The evolving Onion
from THE BEAT
- German comics exhibition
from THE BEAT
- That Salty Air by Tim Sievert
- More Comic Almanacks. Everybody’s Comic Almanack for 1837
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Evolution of Yeti imagery
from Boing Boing
- The glory years for the future cartoonist
from Yesterday’s Papers
- The King and Joe
- The (Weird) Vampire Mob
- News of Yore: Manning Creates Cartoon Mural
from Stripper’s Guide
- New Plunk !
from The Ephemerist
- Scraps and Sketches by George Cruikshank [to be continued
from Yesterday’s Papers
- The Monkey Sculptures of Mitsy Groenendijk
- Tony Millionaire: The Sound of Young America
from FLOG! Entries
- Beautiful match box labels.
from Blog Flume
- Chance Encounter print now on eBay
from Jim Flora
- Very small footnote to Free
- Françoise Mouly
from Inkstuds
- JimFlora.com facelift
from Jim Flora
- What word is Bosko using?
- Berni Wrightson Edgar Allan Poe Portfolio
- The one with the finished Dave McKean Graveyard Book Cover
- Fong Po Po Dance Scene
from PCL LinkDump
- The Origin of Blackhawk
- Devo – E-Z Listening Muzak Cassettes, Vol’s 1 & 2
- Reasons To Be Cheerful: week of 03/07/08
- *Number 271* * Get us out from under, Blunder Woman*
- AoD: Outgoing
from Todd’s Blog
- MOME Interview 5: Andrice Arp
from FLOG! Entries
- Greatest comics event ever!
from FLOG! Entries
- The Man Who Cried Vampire!
- Grimm’s Fairy Tales Illustrated by John B. Gruelle
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Image to publish a 24 hour comic.
from 24 Hour Comics Day
- The Montgolfier Report
from BibliOdyssey
- If I were in NYC tomorrow or Sunday
from Drawn and Quarterly
- Random Comics News Story Round-Up
from The Comics Reporter
- Cartoon: Dungeons and Dragons Explained
from Achewood
- Mar. 7, 2008: Gone all porno
- “Are you breaking up with me?”
from In This Corner
- March 5, 2008
from Randy & Chirpy 365
Crumbling Paper: Old One Panel Gags
Here’s a second set of miscellaneous one panel gags by unknown artists that appeared here (as before) above an Uncle Pike strip (this one is lost)… this is probably from 1903. Glad Rags, the Corpulent Tramp is in the final panel, so that one is presumably by William F. Marriner. If you can identify any of the other artists, please let me know in the comments and I’ll note it here. See the first set I scanned of one panel gags here. I’m still hoping for identification of those artists as well.
Click the image to view the full strip.
Brother Theodore Wednesdays #3
Missed this yesterday…
Interesting Links: March 6th, 2008
- Mar. 6, 2008: Tentacles!
- Niagara Falls’s secret tunnel
from Boing Boing
- Whistleblower says Feds have highspeed backdoor into major US wireless carrier’s network
from Boing Boing
- Rudimentum Novitiorum
from BibliOdyssey
- Members Preview: Comic Arf
from FLOG! Entries
- Russ Heath (1926 ~ ) Sea Devils Between Aug/1960-Apr/1964
- Acid Boy
from McCarthy Comics
- Reflections: Secret Skin: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
- BREATHING THAT SALTY AIR WITH TIM SIEVERT – NEWSARAMA
- Anatomy of a Donated Comics Collection
from The Comics Reporter
- Jeff Smith on Librarians and Bone
from Kids’ Comics
- obscure Flora EP cover found
from Jim Flora
- Audio: TOON Books at the ALA
from Kids’ Comics
- TOON Books and Children’s Comics on TV
from Kids’ Comics
- Remembering the Self-Publishing Movement: Terry Moore
from B o n e v i l l e
- the one with the Dave McKean Graveyard Book cover sketches in
- A Book About Golden Books
- Meathaus: S.O.S.
- W. Russell Flint 1880 ~ 1970 The Heroes by Charles Kingsley
- HOWTO Earn an artist’s living in the 21st century: 1000 True Fans
from Boing Boing
- Illustration: Mabel Lucie Attwell’s Peter Pan and Wendy
- Kiss of the Vampire
- The Whisperer in Darkness (TEASER)
- the one where I tell you which Dave McKean sketch we went for in the end
- Good Morning, Mr. Kokomo (mp3s)
- *Number 270* * Let George do it*
- Guest Strip: Matthew Reidsma
- Obscurity of the Day: I’m Falling in Love with Some One!
from Stripper’s Guide
- Porky and Daffy – Innovative Wackiness – The Double Bounce Butt Walk
from all kinds of stuff
- Learning to talk changes how we perceive color
from Boing Boing
- Nine Inch Nails made at least $750k from CC release in two days
from Boing Boing
- Who is taking over 24 Hour Comics Day?
from 24 Hour Comics Day
- Mar. 5, 2008: The Connecticut sand coffin
- WFMU’s Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison from Mar 4, 2008
- Spielberg launching social network for UFO and paranormal buffs?
from Boing Boing
- Dungeons & Dragons Creator Gary Gygax Passes Away; Interview on Gadgets
from Boing Boing
- By George?
from Arflovers
- Two new reviews.
- Official Armitage Shanks Fan Club!
from Big Time Attic
- Bollywood posters on demand
from Boing Boing
- Mar. 4, 2008: Mountain into molehill
the cute li’l guy of the day
I’ve started another blog project called the cute li’l guy of the day. It is exactly what it sounds like. Unlike life, it’s kid friendly, so please pass it on to the wee ones as well as the hopelessly immature adults in your life. I do plan on updating it daily or so, although this could very well prove insane to attempt. If you go to the site, my two year old daughter Esther sings the cute li’l guys theme song (refresh the page for a different version), which truly enhances the experience… she is also helping me color some of them.
I’ve made a widget of it that you can embed in your blog, website, social networking page, digital orifice or what-have-you by clicking here, if you are inclined to do that sort of thing. The widget is embedded in the sidebar of the STWALLSKULL site, so you can follow it there as well, assuming you are not a cute lil guy hater.
I’m also using Cafe Press to simulate the existence of an obscene quantity of ridiculous cute li’l guy merchandise that you can choose to summon into reality by sacrificing money to them (and to me, although in smaller quantities, alas). The merchandise will be changing regularly as well… individual cute li’l guys will only be available on merchandise for a short time before they are replaced with other cute li’l guys.
You can subscribe to the cute li’l guys in a newsreader or via email here.
Click the image above to go to the site and read more about cute li’l guy of the day #1, fancy fred.
Crumbling Paper: The Bad Dream that Made Bill a Better Boy
Here’s a great turn of the last century obscurity called The Bad Dream that Made Bill a Better Boy by William Steinigans… the format would appear to be a blatant rip off of Little Nemo. There are some other examples of this strip I noticed in an amazing book I need to get a copy of one of these days, The World on Sunday : Graphic Art in Joseph Pulitzer’s Newspaper (1898 – 1911).
Click the image to view the full strip.
THE CARTOON CRYPT: The Wizard of Oz (1933)
Here’s a YouTube oddity… a goofy cartoon adaptation of The Wizard of Oz from 1933 directed by Ted Eshbaugh. It has little to do with the book other than using some of the characters, and it came out six years before the movie. This may be what inspired the movie makers to have Kansas be black and white and Oz be color… or maybe it was just an obvious idea to happen at the dawn of color film.
It seems like the great Carl Stalling must have worked for just about every animation studio of the era.
You can read about this cartoon on the Big Cartoon Database here.