TODAY’S FEATURED COMICS: Today is an easy pick, in spite of there being the usual bunch of great stuff. My friend John Adcock at Punch in Canada has started posting a bunch of gorgeous examples of the obscure but wonderful comic The Doo Dads by Arch Dale. I haven’t seen that much of Dale’s work, as it is exceedingly difficult to see! It has never been reprinted, and if you want to read more of it you’ll probably have to hunt down the actual newspapers from when it was printed. What I have seen of his work has left a big impression.

Dale is often seen as a Herriman clone, and clearly Herriman was a large influence on him. It is terribly unfair to dismiss his work for this, though… his work is unique and he very much has his own voice and style.

John also shares the story about how he scanned a huge stack of these strips he borrowed and then had the files corrupt or disappear on him… it just makes me wanna cry. Fortunately these scans survived. Boy would I like to see more of this stuff… someone, please make a book on Arch Dale! You Canadians can get government grants for this sort of thing can’t you?

See the first post here and the second one here… sounds like there is more to come!

• Cul-de-Sac the Book! Almost
  from cul de sac
• Eerie Repost & More! [By Request!]
  from datajunkie
• ANTSPUR
  from PULPHOPE
• Unspent Love #2
  from Top Shelf 2.0 Webcomics
• wide-eyed awake
  from Jim Flora
• I AM THE GORILLA MAN
  from Gorilla Men
• NCS Frank Frazetta Tribute Book
  from Mike Lynch Cartoons
• Just Kidding, I mean: SHOO SLOG
  from The Canada Council For The Arts MARC BELL Dept
• Chocolate Cheeks for 8/29/08
  from FLOG! Entries
• I Surely Do Love Final Episodes
  from CR Briefings
• Cold Cure
  from ThadBlog
• Kurtza Minor Saturday leftover Day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Black Terror: Peril of the “Patriotic Americans”
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Black Terror #16 Cover
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Yankee Doodle Jones – Patriotism on Crack
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Scribbly! (2-B & C)
  from ThadBlog
• Little Nemo 1913-01-26
  from Comic Strip Library News
• The Final Horror
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• The Fighting Yank Meets Dr. Psycho
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Herriman Saturday
  from Stripper’s Guide
• The Black Terror: Lady Serpent Returns!
  from Nedor-A-Day
• “Lois Lane’s Love Trap!”
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• *Travelers of Space*
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• Alan Moore – Future Shocks – The Wages of Sin
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Superman Girlfriend Lois Lane #90
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Little Nemo 1913-02-02
  from Comic Strip Library News
• The Recluse + THOIA (a poem)
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Convention Memories
  from cul de sac
• Sunday Pin-Up
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Dodger da Squoil from Brooklyn in a One Squoil Tree
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Return visit. Sunday leftover day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Number 370 “Dragged to your death!”
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Jim Ivey’s Sunday Comics
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Little Nemo 1913-02-09
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Famous Artists Cartoon Course – Lesson 3: Inking The Head and Figure
  from comicrazys
• You Can’t Cheat a Ghost
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Cookie, No. 46
  from Geeklog Site
• The Mutineers
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Superboy #19 (1952)
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Number 371 Carried down to the fiery depths of hades
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Flight to Venus
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Hero of Space
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Why Read At All ? by Lewis Baumer (1870-1963)
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Ritzy Fritzi Ritz
  from Hairy Green Eyeball
• Arch Dale’s American Sundays 1925
  from Punch in Canada
• “A Date with Miss Metropolis”
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• True Cartooning Monday Cartoon Dy.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Happy Jerry Lewis Day!
  from Mark Kausler’s CatBlog
• How to Draw Cartoons the U.S. Army Way! WWII-era Cartooning
  from Cartoon SNAP
• Little Nemo 1913-02-16
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Doo Dad Sundays II
  from Punch in Canada
• Freckles – 01/22/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Supermouse Hits Crimewave!
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Coo-Coo Comics #23 cover
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Zombie Vengeance
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Okay, my last post was not well received.
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Danger In Gameland
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Comics will win the war!
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Giant Size Hernandez Bros.
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Obscurity of the Day: Bruno and Pietro
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Freckles – 01/23/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Reed Crandall 1917 ~ 1982
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• McCloud announces Google Chrome
  from THE BEAT
• No
  from Introspective Comics
• Warm-Up Drawings: the Book
  from RobotJohnny.com
• Don Martin and the Essence of Cartooning.
  from John K Stuff
• Go, Look: Meet Sally Sampers
  from CR Briefings
• Woody Woodpecker, from “New Funnies” #94, 1944: Octo-pushy!
  from Stanley Stories