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TODAY’S FEATURED ITEMS:
Another huge pile of great Sunday strips from the ASIFA Hollywood Animation Archive courtesy of the Marc Deckter Challenge (which is over now)… lots more Gross and Messmer. Check them out here and here.
In their ongoing scans of the Nedor comics line, Nedor-a-Day brings us The Black Terror versus a gorilla… click the above image to go there.
Here’s an example I scanned of Thimble Theatre with a Sappo header from October 1, 1939 probably by Charles H. “Doc” Winner, a year after Thimble Theatre creator Elzie Segar’s death.
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Click here to read about E.C. Segar at lambiek.net.
Click here to read more about E.C. Segar at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.
Click here to read more about Popeye at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.
Click here to read more about Elzie Segar at Wikipedia.
View a bunch of Fleischer Popeye cartoons here.
TODAY’S FEATURED ITEM: More amazing classic newspaper pages posted today at the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive, courtesy of their MARC DECKTER CHALLENGE… Messmer, DeBeck, Sterrett, Gross and more! Click the image above to go there!
Here’s an example I scanned of Gasoline Alley from 1933 by Frank King. In retrospect, out of context, the below panel is just plain wrong… looks like it is from Shary Fleinniken’s Trots and Bonnie.
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Rogerclarkart.com has a bunch of gorgeous large scans of Gasoline Alley strips.
The ASIFA Hollywood Animation Archive has some Gasoline Alley strips (among other things) here.
Click here to read some other strips by Frank King at Barnacle Press.
Here is a Frank King strip at The Stripper’s Guide.
Here are some Frank King strips from The Balloonist.
Here is the Wikipedia entry on Gasoline Alley.
Here is the Toonopedia entry on Gasoline Alley.
Here is a video of Frank King at his drawing board.
Click here to read about Frank King at lambiek.net.
Walt and Skeezix books from Drawn and Quarterly collecting the dailies.
Sundays With Walt and Skeezix, a huge book of Sundays from Sunday Press Books.
Pre-Skeezix, Gasoline Alley strip books at the Spec Productions website.
TODAY’S FEATURED ITEMS: John Adcock at Yesterday’s Papers brings us another great A.D. Condo Everett True strip (among other delights)…
The ASIFA Hollywood Animation Archive brings us another huge batch of gorgeous scans of old Sunday newspaper strips, featuring Otto Messmer and Milt Gross in the fourth day of the Marc Deckter challenge…
The Stripper’s Guide brings us the weekly batch of Herriman rarities in their ongoing Herriman Saturdays feature…
Finally, Comicrazys and Those Fabuleous Fifties both bring us some Harvey Kurtzman rarities…
Lots of other good stuff in the links today too… have fun!
NOTE TO NEW READERS: The Crumbling Paper Index is a repository of old comics I’ve scanned, many of which are over 100 years old. You can see the full index here.
Here’s a typically beautiful example I scanned of a Gasoline Alley Sunday from 1933 by Frank King, with Unca Walt pulling a Calvin’s Dad. A Halloween strip to get you in the mood for next month.
In this wonderful new world of comics reprint books we live in, there are currently a lot of wonderful Gasoline Alley books in print… three Walt and Skeezix
There are also some books of earlier, pre-Skeezix, Gasoline Alley strips I haven’t seen yet available at the Spec Productions website.
Click the image to view the full strip.
Click here to read some other strips by Frank King at Barnacle Press.
Here is a Frank King strip at The Stripper’s Guide.
Here are some Frank King strips from The Balloonist.
Here is the Wikipedia entry on Gasoline Alley.
Here is the Toonopedia entry on Gasoline Alley.
Here is a video of Frank King at his drawing board.
Click here to read about Frank King at lambiek.net.
Update: Gabriel Corbera at the Headsonboard Joyville Blog points us to a bunch of gorgeous large scans of Gasoline Alley strips online that I missed.
Note to new readers: The Hey! Kids! Comics! feature on this site is a regular list of interesting links to mostly old free comics around the web.
TODAY’S FEATURED ITEM: Tom Spurgeon at the indispensible Comics Reporter blog points us to David Chelsea’s lovely website. Note that Chelsea’s brilliant autobiographical graphic novel David Chelsea in Love is currently shamefully out of print, but there are some cheap copies on Amazon.
Mr. Chelsea is also responsible for the best book on perspective that has ever been written, and probably that ever will be written, Perspective! For Comic Book Artists: How to Achieve a Professional Look in Your Artwork.
He has a couple of his numerous 24 hour comics available for free on his site, among other things.
Here’s a badly damaged example I scanned of a Thimble Theatre Sunday strip with a Sappo and Popeye’s Cartoon Club header from March 31, 1935 by Elzie Segar. Segar’s Thimble Theatre is simultaneously one of the best humor and best adventure strips of all time… and Segar also had the best header strips! I love the Popeye’s Cartoon Club strips… someone should do a book of just those strips for kids.
Don’t miss the fantastic Fantagraphics Popeye books.
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Click here to read about E.C. Segar at lambiek.net.
Click here to read more about E.C. Segar at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.
Click here to read more about Popeye at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.
TODAY’S FEATURED ITEM: Today Allan Holtz at the Stripper’s Guide blog brings us two examples of Hard Luck Bill, a Happy Hooligan clone by Harold Knerr… one of which features Knerr’s rip off of the Katzenjammer Kids, the Fineheimer Twins. Click the above image to see and read about the strips.