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TODAY’S FEATURED ITEMS: Here’s a rare Harvey Kurtzman comic on Marlon Brando from Esquire courtesy of Those Fabuleous Fifties…
Another brilliant Jim Woodring Frank image…
And Herriman Saturday at Allan Holtz’s Stripper’s Guide…
Here’s an example I scanned of The Strange Adventures of Pussy Pumpkin by Grace G. Wiederseim/Drayton from 1903.
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Click here to read Turr’ble Tales of Kaptain Kiddo by Grace Drayton at Barnacle Press.
Click here to read an example of Grace Drayton’s The Eternal Feminine at The Stripper’s Guide.
Click here to read about Grace Drayton at lambiek.net.
Read a short biography of Grace Drayton here.
Read an article on Grace Drayton here.
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Good golly I love the work of Jim Woodring… he is one of my all time favorite artists. Click the below brand new image from his blog to go see it in spectacular full size, and then check out the rest of his eye candy. Note that Mr. Woodring has a new book he has made with author Paul Di Filippo coming out imminently called COSMOCOPIA that will be limited to 500 copies, and includes a jigsaw puzzle. $50, but I imagine they will go pretty fast.
Swedish illustrator Mattias Adolfsson has been posting images from his sketchbook for a long time, and they are always absolutely spectacular. His buildings remind me of early R. Crumb crossed with Dr. Seuss. Fantastic stuff… click one of his latest images below to go check out his blog.
Those Fabuleous Fifties brings us a beautiful silent Walt Kelly kids comic strip from Animal Comics #22. Once again I plead into the void… PLEASE, someone out there reprint all the Kelly kids comics! If a book like this was well-designed and aimed at the kids market rather than the comic collectors’ market, I think it would clean up. Click the image below to go there.
Finally, Allan Holtz at The Stripper’s Guide gives us two examples of H.E. Godwin’s Crazy Charlie. Click the image below to go there.
Here’s an example I scanned of The Strange Adventures of Pussy Pumpkin by Grace G. Wiederseim, aka Grace Drayton, the creator of the Campbell’s Soup Kids, from 1903.
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Click here to read Turr’ble Tales of Kaptain Kiddo by Grace Drayton at Barnacle Press.
Click here to read an example of Grace Drayton’s The Eternal Feminine at The Stripper’s Guide.
Click here to read about Grace Drayton at lambiek.net.
Read a short biography of Grace Drayton here.
Read an article on Grace Drayton here.
TODAY’S FEATURED ITEMS: The Marc Deckter challenge is over at the ASIFA Hollywood Animation Archive, but they have a bonus day today… a generous helping of the very inspiring Salesman Sam by C.D. Small and more Milt Gross (plus a Chic Young Blondie Sunday)! Boy, I’d like to see a book of those Salesman Sam strips. Click the image below to go there.
My friend David Steinlicht‘s weekly In This Corner comic is one of my favorite things on the web (it also appears in the St. Paul Pioneer Press print edition every Thursday)… click the below image for his latest.
Shaenon Garrity brings us a bunch of pages of beautiful, obscure and forgotten manga in two different posts here and here.
Finally, The Stripper’s Guide brings us a lovely example of Mrs. Bumps’ Boarding House by Dwig. Click the below image to view it.
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Here’s an example I scanned of The Prodigal Son by Gene Carr (best known for Lady Bountiful). Interesting how it is broken into two parts, one on the right and one on the left… it would seem this strip could have been the inspiration for Goofus and Gallant. Unfortunately, it is missing the bottom half of the strip… if anyone wants to draw the imagined conclusion to this, I will gladly post it.
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Click here to read examples of Home Sweet Home by Gene Carr at Barnacle Press.
Click here to read examples of Just Humans by Gene Carr at The Stripper’s Guide.
Go here to read an example of Gene Carr’s Mr. Always Wright.
Here’s a Google book scan of The Show Girl and Her Friends, illustrated by Gene Carr.
See some Gene Carr St. Patrick’s Day postcards here.
Click here to read about at lambiek.net.
Click here to read about Gene Carr on Wikipedia.
Click here to read more about Gene Carr’s Lady Bountiful at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.
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Another heap of fun comics reading…
I’m happy to report a lot of blogs seem to be having a Harvey Kurtzman binge right now… I’m rereading Kurtzman’s Jungle Book right now, myself. Kurtzman’s notoriety comes primarily from being the inventor of Mad Magazine, and he is usually very funny. Although he worked with a lot of other artists, writing for their drawings (most notably Will Elder), I like Kurtzman best when he is drawing himself. He is one of the most expressive cartoonists of all time…
Those Fabuleous Fifties brings us some rare Kurtzman strips from Madison Avenue Magazine…
And some from Esquire…
Comicrazys brings us a Kurtzman pre-Mad funny animal comic called Pigtales from 1946…
And John K gives us a nice appreciation of Kurtzman…
John Adcock at Yesterday’s Papers brings us a number of examples of the notoriously racy WWII comic strip Jane by Norman Pett… Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
The official Pogo Possum website is serializing the Pogo paperback Go Fizzickle Pogo…
Potrzebie points us to Basil Wolverton art galore his days working at the religious magazine The Plain Truth… a huge archive of many of Plain Truth founder Herbert W. Armstrong’s numerous publications online, which are often fantastically illustrated by Wolverton. Among many other publications, the archive includes most or all issues of the Plain Truth, where Wolverton’s amazing Bible Story was originally serialized… the versions in the magazine (and in alternate publishings of the book versions of The Bible Story) contain different material, so I imagine there is a whole lot of stuff in here that was never reprinted in book form. It is a lot of crap to wade through, but there is a real treasure trove here. The below image was pulled from a random one of the hundreds of issues on the site.
Last but far from least, Walrus Magazine points us to a new Chester Brown tale from the Yummy Fur universe called Zombies Take Toronto… the image quality sucks, but it is a great read.
Note that the esteemed Mr. Brown is currently running for office, which, regardless of what you think of his politics, is a tragic waste of his enormous cartooning talents. The early issues of Yummy Fur (the recently reprinted in pamphlet form Ed the Happy Clown saga… which hopefully will soon be a book, considering some previous book versions of it are going for over 200 bucks on Amazon
Note also that the final installment of the Zombies strip also reveals that there is a Yummy Fur movie in the works to be directed by Bruce MacDonald… hopefully this means Mr. Brown will be deeply involved in its translation to the screen. Adapting Yummy Fur to the screen and getting distribution should be quite challenging, I imagine… it will, of course, have to be xxx to be a good adaptation, considering all the miserable penises with starring roles in the comic.
A lot more great stuff below…