HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Addams, Wolverton and Godwin’s Crazy Charlie for Halloween : October 31st, 2008

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TODAY’S FEATURED ITEMS:

Way too much great stuff listed below, as usual… I’m only featuring Halloween oriented items today (there are a ton more in the list below)…

What could put you more in the mood for Halloween than some Charles Addams cartoons, courtesy of Hairy Green Eyeball.

The Fortress of Fortitude presents Basil Wolverton’s They Crawl By Night! (plus some of his fantastic Plop! covers can be seen at Diversions of the Groovy Kind).

Barnacle Press brings us the complete run of H.E. Godwin’s Crazy Charlie.

Even more Halloween oriented comics can be found linked at The Comics Reporter here. and here.

HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Floyd Gottfredson’s Mickey Mouse in The Gypsies at Rodney Bowcock’s Comics and Stories : October 29th, 2008

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I haven’t had any time to blog lately, so boy did this list get out of control… way too many treasures to feature this time around (including a ton of Herriman, and even a Segar Herriman parody), so I’ll just feature one of them.

TODAY’S FEATURED ITEM:

Rodney Bowcock’s Comics and Stories brings you the Mickey Mouse comic strip adventure The Gypsies by Floyd Gottfredson (inked by Al Taliaferro) from 1931… with that scoundrel Walt Disney taking all the credit, as usual. Apparently, this one has never been reprinted in the US. Part one here, part two here. He thinks it will be presented on his site in a total of five parts.

INTERESTING LINKS: King Features Syndicate’s 1949 Famous Artists and Writers: October 22nd, 2008

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TODAY’S FEATURED ITEM: Golden Age Comic Book Stories brings us 60 pages of the 176 page King Features Syndicate 1949 promotional booklet Famous Artists and Writers, featuring bios and rare art from their many fantastic artists at the time. Interesting to see that Otto Messmer was getting full (and proper) credit for Felix the Cat… I had previously been under the impression he had been anonymous for his whole career as creator and primary artist of Felix the Cat (in animation, comic strips and comic books!), with the sinister Pat Sullivan stealing the credit. Mickey Mouse is, however, (unsurprisingly) still credited to Walt Disney instead of the brilliant Floyd Gottfredson. Disney’s personal lack of artistic skill must have led to an awful lot of awkward situations, I imagine. What a phony. Part one here, part two here.

CRUMBLING PAPER: Their Only Child

Here’s an example I scanned of Their Only Child from 1915 by George McManus.

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.

CRUMBLING PAPER: Rosie’s Beau (Strip #3)

Here’s another example I scanned of Rosie’s Beau from 1917 by George McManus.

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.

THE CARTOON CRYPT: Popeye in Shiver Me Timbers (1934)

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Another cartoon for the ongoing Vintage Spooky Cartoons list… the Fleischers’ Popeye versus a ghost ship.

Unfortunately, the only version of this available online that I can find right now is the colorized version. I’m not talking Ted Turner colorized either… bad as that is, this is much worse. My understanding is that at some point (around the time color television came around?) some brilliant entrepreneur decided it would be a good idea to make a buck by remaking some old public domain black and white cartoons in color by tracing cartoons on the cheap, coloring them and re-filming them. The results are poorly traced, and hideously colored, with far less “in-betweening” than the originals… leaving the animation a clunky, jerky, ugly mess… a hollow shell of the original. I imagine that they generally have chunks of the cartoon outright missing as well, judging from the budget-minded nature of this monstrous process (not to mention the sort of censorship that inevitably occurs when dimwits revisit the material of yesteryear and judge it by modern standards). In the very likely event I have any of this information wrong, someone out there please do correct me in the comments. Needless to say, I’ll replace this with a black and white version if it becomes available.

Read more about this cartoon on the Big Cartoon Database.

HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Chick’s First Bite, Arctic Explorer Comics, King Kong in Mad Magazine : October 15th, 2008

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The Nedor-A-Day blog brings us Lincoln Ellsworth: Hero of the Poles! from It Really Happened #11. I link to it not because it is a particularly great comic, but because it causes me to go on a tangent imagining an alternate reality where instead of cowboy genre comics in the forties and fifties, the newsstands were filled with arctic explorer genre comics. Such is the sort of random and frivolous qualifier that will sometimes make a comic a featured item on this blog. Let the reader beware. Click the below image to read the comic.

A new Jack Chick comic is always a cause for celebration… or damnation! Mr. Chick continues his quest to save our souls with the healing powers of hatred, fear, paranoia and intolerance. This is a particularly bizarre one featuring vampires, just in time for Halloween. And as much as I like the work of Mr. Chick’s assistant (whose name I can’t recall right now), I MUCH prefer Chick’s own cartoony style, featured in this tract. Note that Mr. Chick’s All Tract Assortment has been the best bang for your buck in mini-comics for many, many years.

Finally, Gorilla Men brings us a collection of hilarious Don Martin and Sergio Aragones King Kong comics from Mad Magazine.

CRUMBLING PAPER: Bringing Up Father and Rosie’s Beau (strip #2)

Here’s an example I scanned of Bringing Up Father with the header strip Rosie’s Beau from March 31, 1935 by George McManus.

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! : Moore and Simpson’s In Pictopia, Gould’s Late Dick Tracy, A Herriman Saturday, McCay Illustrations, and The Concert of the Apes : October 14th, 2008

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TODAY’S FEATURED ITEMS:

I Love Comix brings us some highly bizarre Chester Gould Dick Tracy Sundays from a few years before he retired. Gould’s art and stories were always highly eccentric, but near the end of his run a lot of his strips were downright incoherent… always interesting, though. Click the image above to go there.

The Comic Book Catacombs brings us Concert of the Apes… click the image above to go there.

Another Herriman Saturday at Allan Holtz’s Stripper’s Guide! Click the image above to go there.


Golden Age Comic Book Stories
brings us a bunch of gorgeous Winsor McCay editorial illustrations. Click the image above to go there.

Finally, Scans Daily presents a wonderful and fairly obscure (not reprinted, as far as I know) Alan Moore/Don Simpson rarity from the 1986 Fantagraphics anthology Anything Goes! #2. Click the above image to go there.

INTERESTING LINKS: Krazy Kat in the Kolumbia Kartoons at Uncle John’s Crazy Town: October 14th, 2008

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TODAY’S FEATURED ITEM: Uncle John’s Crazy Town has been posting a lot of amazing looking stills from old Columbia Krazy Kat cartoons. I have always arbitrarily & stupidly dismissed these cartoons without watching them, as they totally ignored the “source material”… George Herriman’s brilliant Krazy Kat comic strips. It appears that in spite of their apparent disdain for or dismissal of Herriman’s work, their cartoons stand on their own as something werra werra interesting. From seeing the stills he has posted, they look pretty amazing… I’m going to have to see what Columbia Krazy Kats I can hunt down on the internet. Check out the short clip of the devious looking mesmerist doing his thing from the Krazy Kat cartoon Svengarlic by clicking the above image… and then check out the rest of the blog to see Kat stills.