Another one for my ongoing Vintage Spooky Cartoon list to get you in the mood for Halloween. Unfortunately, the video quality of this one is pretty atrocious.
Category Archives: ANIMATION
THE CARTOON CRYPT: Flip the Frog in The Cuckoo Murder Case (1930)
Another spooky cartoon to get you in the mood for Halloween… I love the abrupt ending of this one. If you want more spookiness, check out my ongoing list of spooky cartoons.
Read more about this cartoon on The Big Cartoon Database.
This cartoon, along with almost all of Ub Iwerks cartoons made for his own studio, are available on the excellent DVDs The Cartoons that time Forgot Volume One and Volume Two. This cartoon is on Volume 2.
HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Kurtzman, Cannon, Woodring, Flip, Mattias, Goldberg and a Conspiracy Jam : October 8th, 2008
TODAY’S FEATURED ITEMS:
Too many great items to feature them all this time around… here are some of the highlights…
The ASIFA Hollywood Animation Archive gives us some wonderful examples of (the only cartoonist listed in the dictionary) Rube Goldberg’s Side Show sunday strips, a great hodge-podge of interesting and funny features that was the home for his famous Inventions. Click the above image to go there.
My friend Kevin Cannon brings us the first seven pages of his wonderful new Sloth Force Seven minicomic which I got at FallCon this weekend. Click the above image to view it.
Another marvelous and particularly funny Jim Woodring image. Click the image above to go look at it.
Comicrazys gives us more of the extremely obscure Flip the Frog Annual series. Click the image… you know the routine by now, don’t you?
Here is the Minneapolis Cartoonist Conspiracy Jam from October 2008 that I participated in as usual. Note that anyone can participate… just show up the first Thursday of the month at Diamond’s Coffee Shoppe in Minneapolis with pen in hand. Click the image to download the fairly large pdf (thanks to Kevin Cannon for scanning and posting these!)
Mattias has been on a roll producing amazing illustrations of fantastic buildings… he just completed a series of five particularly fanciful "vehicle" buildings.. Click… image…
More rare Harvey Kurtzman from Those Fabuleous Fifties! Click the above image to go there.
- The Blue Kid’s Hicky Wicky Adventure, part 2
- Saturday’s Almanack
from cul de sac
- King of the Cowboys – Wild Horse Bob Crosby
from Nedor-A-Day
- The Haunted Hunchback
- Superboy #90 (1961)
- Lady of the Black Flag
from Nedor-A-Day
- Little Nemo 1913-11-23
- Supermans Pal Jimmy Olsen #52 (1961)
- Number 392 Super Mighty Mice
- Mjammie Wednesday Advertising Day.
- Commercial Liner
from Mattias Inks
- Time to Cool Off
from Introspective Comics
- Matthew Kriske’s “Magic Carp” Debuts
from Big Time Attic
- The English Comic Strip
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Une mèche de vos cheveux, Maëstro!
from Töpfferiana
- The Head Man
- Douglas and Duncan: Disturbin’ the Peace
from Nedor-A-Day
- Batman #52 (1949)
- the Gorgon
from Mattias Inks
- More All-American Art
from Hairy Green Eyeball
- Selling a soul
from Hairy Green Eyeball
- The Old Man And The Satire Tuesday Newspaper Strip
- Pre-Halloween warmup!
from datajunkie
- Freckles – 03/05/1945
- Tumbleweeds by T.K. Ryan
- Madinkbeard – 150 panels of Concrete
from madinkbeard.com
- Daily archive Additions – 10/2/08
from I Love Comix
- Little Nemo 1913-10-26
- Little Nemo 1913-11-02
- The Amulet of Terror
- “You cartoonists are always gagging it up!”
from Hairy Green Eyeball
- Freckles – 03/01/1945
- Aim practise
from Mattias Inks
- Big Bad Week- Act VII
from Classic Cartoons
- Barks and Hannah’s ‘Madam XX’
from ThadBlog
- Dan Williams: Private Investigator in the Forbes Case
from Nedor-A-Day
- SF 4 Me…SEE!
from datajunkie
- from Nancy #165, 1959: the evil of Rollo Haveall
from Stanley Stories
- King Aroo Sunday Comic Strip By Jack Kent
from Cartoon SNAP
- Freckles – 03/03/1945
- Bugs Bunny’s Halloween Trick ‘N’ Treat, #4
- Grant Morrison’s Dr. Who?
- Bay of Gigs Monday Cartoon Day.
- Young, Dora and Brummelisa
from Sekvenskonst
- Daily archive Additions – 10/05/08
from I Love Comix
- Love Puppets #2, part 1
- The origin of Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin
- Little Nemo 1913-11-09
- Preview video/slideshow: Popeye Vol. 3
from FLOG! Entries
- Minneapolis Jam: October 2008
from CONSPIRE!
- Horror Holds the Reins
- A Little Piece of Paper!
from Nedor-A-Day
- Number 390 Dunc and Loo come through I found Dunc and Loo
- Superboy #16 (1951)
- Play songs of love
from Mattias Inks
- Freckles – 03/02/1945
- Flip The Frog Annual: Ruemance 1931
from Comicrazys
- Woody Woodpecker, from “New Funnies” #108, 1946
from Stanley Stories
- “Jimmy’s Forgotten Girl Friend!”
- The Terrible Tourist (WDCS 248)
- Supermans Pal Jimmy Olsen #44 (1960)
- Halloween Item – Heroin Abuse in Shock and Suspense
from Ethan Persoff
- Miss Masque: Ring of Death
from Nedor-A-Day
- The Wolpire
- Number 391 The scourge of Atlantis Dick Ayers
- s/s Teracotta
from Mattias Inks
- Devil You Know
- Vintage Comics: Läderlappen
from Martin Klasch
- DON’T WAIT UP, MOTHER
from The Woodring Monitor
- Guest Strip: Will Dinski, Jesse Reklaw
- “Some to-do lists”
from In This Corner
- Sloth Force Seven: “Time Travel”
from Big Time Attic
- * Military comics #16 ~ Feb/1943*
- Big Bad Week- Act VI
from Classic Cartoons
- Burning Building Comix #1-#3
- *Reed Crandall’s* Blackhawk Crandall’s *first* stint
- More Mother Goose
from Sekvenskonst
- Queen Victoria’s Parrot
from Yesterday’s Papers
- *an extra added story by the great* *Reed Crandall*
- * Military Comics #17 ~ March/1943*
- Freckles – 02/28/1945
- Inspired Woman
from Nedor-A-Day
- Comic Strips: Rube Goldberg’s Side Show
- Heavy Metal Heart, part 3
- Cubby
from Nedor-A-Day
- Help Us to Die!
- Dodger de Squoil in Up a Tree
from Nedor-A-Day
- Little Nemo 1913-10-19
- Cadava The Crumbler
- Number 389 Man in the macabre mirror
- the Cord, in color
from Mattias Inks
- The Captain Aero Connections
- Jeaniology Thursday story strip day.
- Big Bad Week- Act V
from Classic Cartoons
- Once Again, I’m The King Of Ooops!
from datajunkie
- Rag, Tag and Bobtail
from BibliOdyssey
- the Cord
from Mattias Inks
- Abandoned Cars online
from FLOG! Entries
- Grandfather’s Picture-Books
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Cruikshank’s Comic Strips
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Little Nemo 1913-10-12
- Defense of the West Gate
- The Fighting Yank on Slavers Island
from Nedor-A-Day
- Pool of the Skeletons
- Daily archive Additions – 10/1/08
from I Love Comix
- Imitation is the sincerest form…
from Hairy Green Eyeball
- TV-chair
from Mattias Inks
- Freckles – 02/27/1945
- The secret code: Six letters, starts with ‘B-A-T’
- Meanwhile, in Indie land…
from THE BEAT
- Flash Gordon
from Sean Phillips
- Flash Gordon
from Sean Phillips
- He’ll Save With A Mighty Hand
from CR Briefings
- Keep Your Eyes Peeled For This Nice Piece of Recently-Stolen Seth Art
from CR Briefings
- Billions to Sneeze At
from ThadBlog
- Faces
from cul de sac
- Little Nemo 1913-10-05
- Fred Basset by Alex Graham
- Not Much
- Superboy #33 (1954)
- The Big Snake
- Colonel Punchy Penguin: Ice Salesman
from Nedor-A-Day
- Ship Of Evil
- Unspent Love #4
- Number 388 Give Doll Man a great big hand!
- Merchant vessel
from Mattias Inks
- Freckles – 02/26/1945
- Mad Man Wednesday Advertising Day.
- Big Bad Week- Act IV
from Classic Cartoons
- The Truth
from Introspective Comics
- Twice daily Chester Brown post
from Drawn and Quarterly
- Big Bad Week- Act III
from Classic Cartoons
- The Horror Art Of Dick Ayers!
from datajunkie
- Vote Bear
from Boing Boing
- Smokey The Pectoral Bear Raises Your Children Right
from John K Stuff
- Séquence initiale töpfferienne
from Töpfferiana
- Freckles – 02/24/1945
- Le nez dedans (1) : C’est dans le nez que ça le chatouille
from Töpfferiana
- La puce, le chien et le(s) maître(s)
from Töpfferiana
- Haunt from the Sea (CONTEST)
- Saturday’s Almanack
from cul de sac
- The Fighting Yank: Lo, the Poor Indian
from Nedor-A-Day
- The Bravest Niño #2, part 3
- Sick x 3
from Hairy Green Eyeball
- Packed
from Mattias Inks
- Secrets of the Batcave, 1968
- Coogy Arf Tuesday newspaper strip Day.
- Odd Bodkins by Dan O’Neill
- Little Nemo 1913-09-28
- Golden Age Dickery – Volton
THE CARTOON CRYPT: Betty Boop’s Halloween Party (1933)
Not only is this a spooky cartoon, but the heavy is a gorilla… what more could you ask for?
STWALLSKULL’S CARTOON CRYPT PRESENTS: Vintage Spooky Cartoons
Thrillmer! was nice enough to point out that the link was broken when I posted this the other day, so this is a repost… I’ll have another spooky cartoon posted for your amusement later today as well.
In eager anticipation of Halloween, here is a directory of the vintage spooky cartoons that have been compiled on this site so far. I’m going to be adding a lot more over the next month or so, so please do check back. Please note that you can subscribe to this site here to keep up with the latest posts.
STWALLSKULL’S CARTOON CRYPT PRESENTS: Vintage Spooky Cartoons
In eager anticipation of Halloween, here is a directory of the vintage spooky cartoons that have been compiled on this site so far. I’m going to be adding a lot more over the next month or so, so please do check back. Please note that you can subscribe to this site here to keep up with the latest posts.
THE CARTOON CRYPT: Summertime (1935)
Summertime is one of the weaker Ub Iwerks ComiColor cartoons, in my opinion, but it features the return of Old Man Winter, who was in the cartoon Jack Frost that I posted the other day. It was definitely influenced by the Disney series of season-based Silly Symphonies… because Iwerks directed Springtime (1929) Summer (1930), and Autumn (1930) for them. It also features a very racy scene for the time of silhouettes of trees turning into silhouettes of rotoscoped dancing ladies. In spite of some very good moments, this cartoon is greatly weakened by having only one design for a centaur, and reusing the animation of him relentlessly.
Read more about this cartoon on The Big Cartoon Database.
This cartoon, along with almost all of Ub Iwerks cartoons made for his own studio, are available on the excellent DVDs The Cartoons that time Forgot Volume One and Volume Two. This cartoon is on Volume 1.
THE CARTOON CRYPT: Everready Harton in Buried Treasure (1929)
I recently saw this cartoon on The Panopticist via Boing Boing. It is likely to be the first pornographic animated cartoon, and it is a doozy… boy is it funny.
Read more about this cartoon at The Panopticist. There they quote Wikipedia quoting Ward Kimball…
The Wikipedia page includes this backstory quote from Disney animator Ward Kimball: “The first porno-cartoon was made in New York. It was called ‘Eveready Harton’ and was made in the late 20’s, silent, of course—by three studios. Each one did a section of it without telling the other studios what they were doing. Studio A finished the first part and gave the last drawing to Studio B. … Involved were Max Fleischer, Paul Terry and the Mutt and Jeff studio. … A couple of guys who were there [at the party] tell me the laughter almost blew the top off the hotel where they were screening it.â€
WARNING: This is a hilariously pornographic cartoon. If smut offends you, you may not want to view it. If you are under the age of 18, don’t watch it until you are, because you could probably get me in trouble, you naughty little imps.
THE CARTOON CRYPT: The Big Bad Wolf aka Little Boy Blue (1936)
Another great Ub Iwerks ComiColor cartoon, featuring the Big Bad Wolf… this comes three years after the immensely popular Disney Silly Symphony version of the Three Little Pigs, which had also spawned a number of sequels, including one also titled The Big Bad Wolf. This Wolf would seem to be pretty influenced by the Disney one. I would guess that is likely to be why the original title of this appears to have been Little Boy Blue, even though Little Boy Blue is a fairly minor character in this cartoon. This cartoon really stars the Big Bad Wolf and the Scarecrow featured in the cartoon Jack Frost which I posted the other day.
Read more about this cartoon on The Big Cartoon Database.
This cartoon, along with almost all of Ub Iwerks cartoons for his own studio, are available on the excellent DVDs The Cartoons that time Forgot Volume One and Volume Two. This cartoon is on Volume 1.
THE CARTOON CRYPT: Jack Frost (1934)
A great ComiColor cartoon from Ub Iwerks… my daughter Esther’s newest favorite. It has a fun soundtrack too… note the scarecrow Cab Calloway tribute, presumably influenced by the Fleischer Betty Boop cartoons Snow White (1933) and Minnie the Moocher (1932)… the scarecrow even appears to be rotoscoped a bit, I suspect. The soundtrack is by the one and only Carl Stalling… he really got around in the 30’s. I’ve extracted the soundtrack as an mp3 which you can download here. Right time of year for this one too, as the leaves begin to turn…
UPDATE: I forgot to mention that this cartoon appears to feature the same bear family that is ruthlessly abused a year later in the previously mentioned cartoon The Three Bears.
Read more about this cartoon on The Big Cartoon Database.
This cartoon, along with almost all of Ub Iwerks cartoons for his own studio, are available on the excellent DVDs The Cartoons that time Forgot Volume One and Volume Two. Jack Frost is on Volume 2.