HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Harry Grant Dart’s The Explorigator : July 18th, 2008

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Today’s featured comic: Again we have another hard day to make a choice on what to feature… there’s a great new Li’l Abner feature at the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive, a typically wonderful Walt Kelly childrens’ comic at Pappy’s, and some gorgeous Jim Tyer funny animal art at ThadBlog. However, Barnacle Press just put up the complete 14 episodes of Harry Grant Dart’s The Explorigator strips from 1908, and those win out (even in black and white… you should see ’em in color!). The Explorigator strips are fantastic… huge and beautiful fantasy-adventure strips, on a par with what McCay was doing with Little Nemo at the time. Pity there are only 14 of them! Click the image above to go see the strips.

Crumbling Paper: The Outbursts of Everett True (strip #39)

STWALLSKULL'S CRUMBLING PAPER INDEX

Here is an Everett True strip I scanned from October 4, 1924. Go here to see more Outbursts of Everett True on this site.

If you have a desire to draw your own interpretation of an Everett True strip and send it to me, I’d love to put it up for the internet for all to see with a link to your website or what have you. Send it to me at:

Click here to go to the Barnacle Press collection of Everett True strips by A.D. Condo

Click here to read about the lesser-known works of A.D. Condo at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read some samples of Mr. Skygack, From Mars by A.D. Condo at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read some samples of Diana Dillpickles by A.D. Condo at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read some samples of Duke Murphy by A.D. Condo at Barnacle Press.

Click here to the Toonopedia entry on Everett True

Click here to read about A.D. Condo at lambiek.net.

HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Harrison Cady Illustrations for Boys’ Life : July 17th, 2008

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Harrison Cady Boys' Life Illustrations

Today’s featured item: The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive posted some lovely scans of some of Harrison Cady’s insanely detailed Boys’ Life illustrations. Click on the image above to go view them.

Crumbling Paper: The Outbursts of Everett True (strip #38)

STWALLSKULL'S CRUMBLING PAPER INDEX

Here is an Everett True strip I scanned from October 3, 1924. Go here to see more Outbursts of Everett True on this site.

If you have a desire to draw your own interpretation of an Everett True strip and send it to me, I’d love to put it up for the internet for all to see with a link to your website or what have you. Send it to me at:

Click here to go to the Barnacle Press collection of Everett True strips by A.D. Condo

Click here to read about the lesser-known works of A.D. Condo at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read some samples of Mr. Skygack, From Mars by A.D. Condo at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read some samples of Diana Dillpickles by A.D. Condo at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read some samples of Duke Murphy by A.D. Condo at Barnacle Press.

Click here to the Toonopedia entry on Everett True

Click here to read about A.D. Condo at lambiek.net.

Crumbling Paper: The Outbursts of Everett True (strip #37)

STWALLSKULL'S CRUMBLING PAPER INDEX

Here is an Everett True strip I scanned from October 2, 1924. Go here to see more Outbursts of Everett True on this site.

If you have a desire to draw your own interpretation of an Everett True strip and send it to me, I’d love to put it up for the internet for all to see with a link to your website or what have you. Send it to me at:

Click here to go to the Barnacle Press collection of Everett True strips by A.D. Condo

Click here to read about the lesser-known works of A.D. Condo at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read some samples of Mr. Skygack, From Mars by A.D. Condo at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read some samples of Diana Dillpickles by A.D. Condo at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read some samples of Duke Murphy by A.D. Condo at Barnacle Press.

Click here to the Toonopedia entry on Everett True

Click here to read about A.D. Condo at lambiek.net.

HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Whole Lotta Herriman : July 15th, 2008

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I make it no secret that George Herriman is my favorite artist of all time… Herriman’s Krazy Kat I think is the greatest artwork ever made in any medium.

This has been probably the best week ever for finding Herriman reprints online.

First of all Allan Holtz at the Stripper’s Guide brought us his latest Herriman Saturday, as he does every Saturday… these posts feature an ongoing complete reprinting of early, early political and other cartoons from the Los Angeles Examiner by Herriman.

Next our friends at Barnacle Press (easily the best place to read ancient comics online) posted numerous examples of two early, extremely rare Herriman strips, Major Ozone’s Fresh Air Crusade and The Two Jolly Jackies. Note in the earliest Ozone strip presented from 1904, we already have a very familiar looking Kat inhabiting the bottom of the strip (a preview of which is pictured above).

Barnacle Press also pointed us to The Ignatz Archive, an online smörgåsbord of a whole bunch of rare early Herriman strips!

To top things off, I Love Comix printed a great Krazy Kat Sunday and Mark Kausler ran another wonderful bunch of Krazy Kat dailies (which he has been doing for some time now).

I can’t wait to have the time to read all these treasures!

Crumbling Paper: The Outbursts of Everett True (strip #36)

STWALLSKULL'S CRUMBLING PAPER INDEX

As promised yesterday, here is some more Everett True for you. This is an Everett True strip I scanned from October 1, 1924. Go here to see more Outbursts of Everett True on this site.

If you have a desire to draw your own interpretation of an Everett True strip and send it to me, I’d love to put it up for the internet for all to see with a link to your website or what have you. Send it to me at:

Click here to go to the Barnacle Press collection of Everett True strips by A.D. Condo

Click here to read about the lesser-known works of A.D. Condo at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read some samples of Mr. Skygack, From Mars by A.D. Condo at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read some samples of Diana Dillpickles by A.D. Condo at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read some samples of Duke Murphy by A.D. Condo at Barnacle Press.

Click here to the Toonopedia entry on Everett True

Click here to read about A.D. Condo at lambiek.net.

HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Whodunnit? : July 11th, 2008

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Today’s featured item… a Rudy Palais story from Crime Does Not Pay #49 (1947) courtesy of Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine. Click the image below to read the comic.

Whodunnit?

POLL: “Who Would Win in a Really Big Goddamn Fight?” Answered

Our poll on “Who Would Win in a Really Big Goddamn Fight?” has been answered. It comes as no surprise to regular readers of STWALLSKULL that the winner is Everett True.

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In celebration of Mr. True’s victory, some more Everett True reprints will be coming to this site imminently. To see the ones posted previously, go here.

A new poll should be coming soon. Thanks to all who participated!