INTERESTING LINKS: Andrew Loomis Composition Tutorials at The Temple of the Seven Golden Camels: November 20th, 2008

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The Temple of the Seven Golden Camels blog brings us some interesting tutorials on composition from Andrew Loomis’s out-of-print Creative Illustration book. They also provide instructions for getting all of Loomis’s books for free online as pdfs.

HEY! KIDS! COMICS!: Herriman, McCay, Hoff and Weird City: November 19th, 2008

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I’ve always liked Syd Hoff’s gag cartoons and his childrens’ books… Barkley, Oliver and Grizzwold are frequent reads with my three year old. Here’s a selection of Syd Hoff cartoons from his book Feeling No Pain (1944) at Hairy Green Eyeball.

Any day I can feature some George Herriman is a good day… and these days, between the Krazy Kat dailies reprints at Comic Strip Library News and Mark Kausler’s CatBlog, the Herriman Saturdays at the Stripper’s Guide, and stuff that just shows up miscellaneously, I’m happy to report that this seems to happen almost every time I post.

Note that in the news on their site, Comic Strip Library News reports they have now posted the complete pre-1923 Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay.

The Fortress Of Fortitude takes us on a trip to Weird City (published originally in Blue Bolt Weird Tales of Terror # 119).

INTERESTING LINKS: The Time-Life Photo Gallery Hosted by Google: November 19th, 2008

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Boing Boing and Drawn! point us to the new, easily searchable, and overwhelming Time-Life photography archive hosted by Google featuring over 10 million historical images, many of which were never before published. What an amazing resource. Above is a crop from a photo I found there of Charles Schulz gleefully squirting a child with a squirt gun… click the image to go to the archive.

CRUMBLING PAPER: Billy Bragg

Here’s an example I scanned of Billy Bragg by C.W. Kahles (the man who brought us the previously posted Billy Bounce strips). I don’t know the year on this one. I don’t believe the prolific Mr. Kahles ever did a comic strip that didn’t feature a protagonist with an alliterative name describing their character.

Click the image to view the full strip.

Click here to read examples of Kahles’ Billy Bounce at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read examples of Kahles’ Clumsy Claude at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read examples of Kahles’ Hairbreadth Harry at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read examples of Kahles’ Foolish Fred and Clarance the Cop at Stripper’s Guide.

Click here to read examples of Kahles’ Optimistic Oswald at Stripper’s Guide.

Click here to read about Kahles at lambiek.net.

Click here to read more about Kahles’ Billy Bounce at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

Click here to read more about Kahles’ Hairbreadth Harry at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Opper, Herriman, Woodring, Barks and Tendlar : November 18th, 2008

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More rare Opper strips from Allan Holtz at The Stripper’s Guide! One particularly interesting item features most of Opper’s characters that were current at that time in one strip… a panel from it can be seen above. See the strips here and here.

Also, another of Mr. Holtz’s wonderful Herriman Saturdays, reprinting some of George Herriman’s extremely rare early editorial cartooning work. This week includes more coverage of the previously mentioned Shriners’ convention.

Another beautiful monstrosity from Jim Woodring.

The Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories Donald Duck 8-pager Gopher Goof-Ups by Carl Barks courtesy of Rodney Bowcock’s Comics & Stories.

A rare, beautifully drawn comic to sell kids shoes by Walt-Kelly-influenced animator Dave Tendlar courtesy of Cartoon Brew.

HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Dr. Seuss, Arch Dale, more Opper and “Graphic Novels” courtesy of the New York Times : November 14th, 2008

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The New York Times has an overview of most of the “graphic novels” they have featured in their publications so far. I guess that the Times calling these graphic novels should be expected from a paper too clueless to have a comics section for the entire twentieth century. Chris Ware’s comic is notably absent. Although it is a large stretch to refer to these as graphic novels, it is an excellent bunch of comics, including Dan Clowes Mr. Wonderful, Seth’s George Sprott, Rutu Modan’s Murder of the Terminal Patient, Jason’s Low Moon and Megan Kelso’s Watergate Sue.

More Frederick Opper at the Stripper’s Guide here and here.


John Adcock gives us an updated biography of Arch Dale with many illustrations and comics at his Punch in Canada Blog.

Finally, here’s some rare Dr. Seuss courtesy of Mystery Hoard.

HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : The Complete Peanuts is Online, Opper’s Red Rig-A-Jigs at the Stripper’s Guide : November 12th, 2008

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United Features just made a huge amount of content available online for free at their comics.com site… including the complete Peanuts! Good grief!

UPDATE: Browsing some more, I noticed that in addition to all that Peanuts, they also appear to have a whole lot of Al Capp’s Li’l Abner on there! Unfortunately, Nancy only goes back to 2000, long after the death of the strip’s genius creator Ernie Bushmiller.

Allan Holtz’s excellent Stripper’s Guide blog has some great Frederick Opper strips to celebrate the release of a new Happy Hooligan book from NBM, including a wonderful rarity called The Red Rig-A-Jigs.

CRUMBLING PAPER: G-R-R-R! Panhandle Pete Meets a Dog

Here’s an example I scanned of Panhandle Pete by George McManus of Bringing Up Father fame.

Click the image to view the full strip.

Apparently, there are over 1400 Bringing Up Father strips in the I Love Comix archive.

Click here to read MANY examples of Bringing Up Father at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read examples of The Newlyweds by George McManus at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read examples of Their Only Child by George McManus at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read examples of Alma & Oliver by George McManus at Allan Holtz’s Stripper’s Guide.

Click here to read examples of Burglar Pete by George McManus at Allan Holtz’s Stripper’s Guide.

Click here to read all the items mentioning George McManus at Allan Holtz’s Stripper’s Guide.

Click here to check out The Holloway Pages’ Bringing Up Father original art page.

Click here to read about George McManus at lambiek.net.

Click here to read more about Bringing Up Father at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

Click here to read more about The Newlyweds at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

Click here to read more about Nibsy the Newsboy in Funny Fairyland at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

Click here to read a Newlyweds example at Shorpy.

Click here to read a Bringing Up Father example at Shorpy.

Read about George McManus at Wikipedia.

Go here to see examples of The Newlyweds at Coconino Classics.

Go here to get a DVD of all of George McManus’s work from 1905-1906. The site includes lovely color scans of a Nibsy the Newsboy in Funny Fairyland and Panhandle Pete Sunday strips.

HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Wolverton’s Powerhouse Pepper : November 11th, 2008

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TODAY’S FEATURED ITEM: I can’t seem to keep up these days… thus, another huge link list of comic treasure to pore over with one random featured item… can’t go wrong with Wolverton! Here’s some Powerhouse Pepper from Comicrazys.