- Comcast’s Closed Internet
- Strange Geographies: East LA’s Abandoned Hospital
from mental_floss Blog
- Toppie Comic – 1958
from a sampler of things
- Have A Drink On Me
from PCL LinkDump
- Turn-of-the-Century Barroom
- The Learners
from FLOG! Entries
- Al Feldstein: the last story from the last issue of Modern Love
- James Sturm
from Inkstuds
- PIN-UPS3
from PULPHOPE
- Al Feldstein his covers for Modern Love #1-#8
- Comics: Marie Severin In Not Brand Echh Number 2
- New feature: Dan Clowes’s “Modern Cartoonist”
from FLOG! Entries
- U.S. will try to shoot down spy satellite gone bad
from Boing Boing
- Die, My Darling!
- An Interview with Paul Karasik (excerpt)
from The Comics Journal
- An Interview with Rutu Modan (excerpt)
from The Comics Journal
- Best of 2007 Introduction and Index
from The Comics Journal
- Lists
from McSweeney’s
- *Number 262* * Flipping the bird*
- The poster is better than the movie
from The Ephemerist
- MORO (MIS CHICAS,1949)
from Viñetas
- Gadzooks, an update!
- Cast Your Vote!
- Feb. 15, 2008: The Comics Journal #288
- ORIGIN OF THE MODERN COMIC BOOK 3 1938-1975
- ORIGIN OF THE MODERN COMIC BOOK 2 1933-1937
- ORIGIN OF THE MODERN COMIC BOOK 1 1919-1933
- Battling to Preserve Remnants of History / Newspaper archives expensive and complex
- Proquest Historical Newspapers
- America’s Historical Newspapers
- YouTube – Chris Ware on the terms “graphic novel” vs. “comic book”
- Markey Net Neutrality Bill is a Step in the Right Direction
from ACLU Blog
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch on AT&T’s Filter Plans
from Boing Boing Gadgets
- INSANE COMICS FROM THE PAST DEPT.
- New comic!
from tylerstafford
- One Dumb Thing
from tylerstafford
- Fantastic Comics #6
- Jungle Comics #1
- Fantastic Comics #8
- George Barris – ‘King of Kustomizers’.
from The World Of Kane.
- Thrift Store Music and Album Cover art.
from The World Of Kane.
- Raymond Scott (1908-1994)
from The World Of Kane.
- Jim Flora Originally posted by snorenose on the Ca…
from The World Of Kane.
- Jim Steranko: My Heart Broke in Hollywood.
from The World Of Kane.
- NYT BLOG: Some Newspapers Printed Danish Cartoon As Act of Solidarity
from The Comics Reporter
- beedle the bard
from Bibliophile Bullpen
- Modern Mechanix Round-Up
from Boing Boing Gadgets
- Monkey Attack Nearly Kills Woman
from Monkeys In The News
- Magazine Publishing Circa 1893
from Failing Better
- Steve Gerber Was Crazy
from Failing Better
- Go, Look: Chris Ware Profiled
from The Comics Reporter
- Go, Look: Another Old Newsstand Photo
from The Comics Reporter
- Your Cartoons Wanted in The Cartoonist Conspiracy’s Flickr Gallery
- Steven Grant on Steve Gerber
- The Archive of Golden Age Romance Comics
- 21st Century Innovations in Magazine Racket-Busting
from The Savage Critic(s)
- It’s always Ladies Night at the Comic Book Store
- Happy Valentines Day!
from THE BEAT
Author Archives: STWALLSKULL
BOB SCULLY: The 2 Fisted Hick Detective
I ran across an auction for this hilarious and amazing looking, very early all original material comic book from 1933 on Ebay today… more images can be seen there.
Here’s what comics historian Robert Beerbohm says about this book (in an excerpt from his upcoming book Comics Archeology 101 called ORIGIN OF THE MODERN COMIC BOOK 1 1919-1933) here:
With the 1933 newsstand appearance of Humor’s Detective Dan, Adventures of Detective Ace King, Bob Scully, Two Fisted Hick Detective, and possibly the still unrediscovered but definitely advertised Happy Mulligan, these little understood original-material comic books were the direct inspiration for Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster to transform their fanzine’s evil character The Superman from Science Fiction #3 (January 1933) into a comic strip that would stand as a watershed heroic mark in American pop culture. The stage was set for a new frontier.
Crumbling Paper: Foxy Grandpa (strip #6)
Here’s an example I scanned of Foxy Grandpa from 1904 by Bunny (Carl Edward Schultze).
Click the image to view the full strip.
Click here to read more examples of Foxy Grandpa at Barnacle Press.
Click here to read more about Carl Edward Schultze at The Stripper’s Guide.
Click here to read more about Carl Edward Schultze at lambiek.net.
Click here to read more about Foxy Grandpa at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.
THE CARTOON CRYPT: Porky in Wackyland (1938)
Director Bob Clampett at his craziest… and they didn’t get any crazier than Clampett. This is one of my favorite cartoons.
Interesting Links: February 14, 2008
- “Potential Valentine gifts”
from In This Corner
- Feb. 14, 2008: Even more harmful than 300
- Nearly there
- BIGFOOT COMIX – minicomix for sale or trade
- Pinups: Little Annie Fanny Takes A Trip
- When I Was Your Age
from Void Pulp Press
- United Forever
- Halfway to Hades
- Pinups: Happy Valentines Day- Jack Cole Style
- Interview with DC McNamara
from Midnight Fiction
- Alterati : Inside Scoop on the Outside Culture
- Balls of Flame in Microgravity
from Neatorama
- The Hunting Strategies of Carnivorous Plants
from mental_floss Blog
- George Evans 1920 ~ 2001
- Manhattan limited edition print
from Jim Flora
- MOME Interview 3: Kurt Wolfgang
from FLOG! Entries
- Little Fattie: 1910
- Hornschemeier Radio
from FLOG! Entries
- Seth is Da Man
from FLOG! Entries
- GABI: ¡EL CASERÓN DEL HORROR!
from Viñetas
- R.I.P. Steve Gerber
from FLOG! Entries
- Exercise in Splendor
from Matt Madden’s blog
- Cafe Scientifique Illustration
from Funrama
- Remembering the Self-Publishing Movement: Larry Marder, part 2
from B o n e v i l l e
- Publishers Turn to Far East for Printing
- Steve Gerber’s The Foolkiller
- Illlustration: Tenggren Tell It Again Book 1942
- Documentary about women who collect fake babies
from Boing Boing
- Steve Gerber: Lilith, the Daughter of Dracula
- His Dead Wife
- In by Philipp Hirsch and Heiko Tippelt
- Schoolgirls Own Annual
from Bear Alley
- ComicMix History Lesson: Steve Ditko’s Revenge
from ComicMix
- Jack Davis record covers
from The Ephemerist
- fabric fun 3
from jabberous
- Hold Still
from The Ephemerist
- Gang Busters Weekend (1)
from The Ephemerist
- *Number 260*
- Gang Busters Weekend (2)
from The Ephemerist
- Kim in Knack
from The Ephemerist
- The Hall Of Trophies
from The Ephemerist
- Cartoonist target of “terror plot”
from THE BEAT
- My Favorite Day of the Week
from Drawn and Quarterly
- TOM’S MONKEY JUNGLE ELDON, MO
from Neato Coolville
- The Comics Journal have posted their landmark Gerber interview from 1978
- Tony Isabella provides a first-person remembrance of working with Steve Gerber
- Feb. 13, 2008: Diamond keeps its fig leaf
- Jack Chick
- The Internet as Enemy of Destructive Cults: Three…
Crumbling Paper: Foxy Grandpa (strip #5)
Here’s an example I scanned of Foxy Grandpa by Bunny (Carl Edward Schultze). Boy, is this one bizarre… if you read only one Foxy Grandpa strip in your lifetime, make it this one.
Click the image to view the full strip.
Click here to read more examples of Foxy Grandpa at Barnacle Press.
Click here to read more about Carl Edward Schultze at The Stripper’s Guide.
Click here to read more about Carl Edward Schultze at lambiek.net.
Click here to read more about Foxy Grandpa at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.
THE CARTOON CRYPT: Monkey Melodies (1930)
I’m a sucker for cartoons with monkeys in them. This is a great one. A Disney Silly Symphony, directed by Burton Gillett.
Interesting Links: February 13th, 2008
- Frank Frazetta (1928 ~ ) Frazetta’s newly colored cover
- A Few Personal Thoughts About Steve Gerber
- ALBERT BERGHAUS
from Yesterday’s Papers
- WFMU’s Antique Phonograph Music Program from Feb 12, 2008
- Jack Chick Movie
- Lying in the Gutters: Dave Sim’s Gossip
- simmoore
- Trading Steve Gerber
- Modern Mechanix Round-Up
from Boing Boing Gadgets
- Again with the VIP: 2 Virgil Partch print ads
- Where do mobsters get their nicknames?
from Boing Boing
- Scans from 1962 book that tries to predict life in 1975
from Boing Boing
- The Art of American Fantasy #16
- REMEMBERING GERBER
- Harry Tracy the Desperate Western Outlaw by W. N. Carter.
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Collective Memory: Steve Gerber, 1947-2008
from The Comics Reporter
- Bodies of Knowledge online exhibition
from Boing Boing
- LOS BRONKOS DE BOIXCAR (1940)
from Viñetas
- M is for Mirrors you’ll stare in forever/ N is for Night and for Nothing and Never
- Frank Frazetta Personal Love #28 ~ August/1954
- Guest Blog at Boneville Part One.
- Pest Control
- Two pieces of movie news from my pal Lee Slattery
- fabric fun 2
from jabberous
- More Whoopee !
- Obscurity of the Day: Adam Chase
from Stripper’s Guide
- CÉSAR EL HOMBRE RELÁMPAGO DE ALFONS FIGUERAS (1940)
from Viñetas
- Red-Faced Laughing Cryptid Monkeys
from Cryptomundo.com
- Trapped in a world he never made
from THE BEAT
- More Adrian…
from Drawn and Quarterly
- MySpace Dark Horse Presents Free Online Gilbert Hernandez Comic
- Steve Gerber, 1947-2008
from The Comics Reporter
- Steve Gerber, R.I.P.
from news from me
- Feb. 12, 2008: The inequities of the old system
- Alex Cox – REPO MAN
- Waldo’s Hawaiian Holiday, the graphic novel sequel to Alex Cox’s cult film ‘REPO MAN’
- Gestalt Comics
Interesting Links: The Cartoon Research Library at OSU
Above: A panel from one of The Cartoon Research Library’s examples of Norman E. Jennett’s The Monkeyshines of Marseleen, from their online Newspaper Cartoon Artists 1898-1909 exhibit. Click the image above to see the exhibit.
I’ve never visited The Cartoon Research Library at Ohio State University, but its existence makes me occasionally dream of living in Ohio. A while back they purchased Bill Blackbeard’s San Francisco Academy of Art collection of old newspaper comics, which is most likely the finest in the world. I keep hoping that one of these days they will start digitizing their collection and putting it all online. They have put some fantastic stuff online, though… here is list of most of their online exhibits:
Lyonel Feininger (Man, I love Feininger…)
The Yellow Kid
Tales of the Jungle Imps (Originals hand colored by Winsor McCay!)
Newspaper Cartoon Artists 1898-1909
Hale Scrapbook
Drawn on Stone
Ohio Cartoonists
The Opper Project
Thomas Nast
The Ohio State University Manga Collection
Preserving Cartoon Art
Pictured above: a panel from The Kin-Der Kids by Lyonel Feininger. Click the above image to visit The Cartoon Research Library’s Lyonel Feininger exhibit. Note that you can purchase a completeish book of Lyonel Feininger’s comic strip work for a pittance, which is decisive proof that we do indeed live in a wondrous world… here is a link for that:
The Comic Strip Art of Lyonel Feininger: The Kin-Der-Kids and Wee Willie Winkie’s World
Crumbling Paper: Foxy Grandpa (strip #4)
Here’s an example I scanned of Foxy Grandpa from 1905 by Bunny (Carl Edward Schultze).
Click the image to view the full strip.
Click here to read more examples of Foxy Grandpa at Barnacle Press.
Click here to read more about Carl Edward Schultze at The Stripper’s Guide.
Click here to read more about Carl Edward Schultze at lambiek.net.
Click here to read more about Foxy Grandpa at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.