Crumbling Paper: Little Sammy Sneeze (strip #2)

Here’s an example I scanned from October 2nd, 1904 of Little Sammy Sneeze by Winsor McCay.

Click the image to view the full strip.

Click here to read more examples of Little Sammy Sneeze at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read about Winsor McCay at lambiek.net.

Click here to buy Little Sammy Sneeze book from Sunday Press Books

Click here to read more about Little Sammy Sneeze at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

There are too many McCay books for me to reference here… we live in wondrous times. Here is a link to the amazing McCay books from Sunday Press printed and restored at full size… big enough to be used as a blunt object. They recently did a Little Sammy Sneeze book that oh boy I gotta have someday, which also includes a lot of examples of two other marvelous strips that were printed on the backs of the Sammy Sneeze strips… The Upside-Downs by Gustave Verbeek and J.P. Benson’s Woozlebeasts.

HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : The Onion Sisters : July 10, 2008

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Just a ton of great stuff today… I hit the golden age funny animal comic jackpot below. You’ll find great stuff by Carl Barks, Walt Kelly and Floyd Gottfredson, among many others. Also some great examples of Cliff Sterrett’s Polly and Her Pals from the ASIFA Hollywood Animation Archive, which is among my favorite comic strips.

Today I thought I would highlight something more obscure, though. Here’s the latest post from my friends at the amazing Barnacle Press blog… click the image below to meet the bizarre Onion Sisters!

The Onion Sisters

Second Annual City Pages Comix Issue Out TODAY: When the Elephants Come to Town

Above: Tim Sievert‘s contribution to the Comix Issue.

The second annual City Pages Comix Issue that many Cartoonist Conspirators contributed to is out today! The theme was “When the Elephants Come to Town,” which is a reference to the Republican National Convention in St. Paul this year. Many items that did not fit in the issue were included online. The print issue will be all over the Twin Cities for the next week.

I have a cartoon in the issue… you can view it directly by clicking the above image.

A lot of good stuff… particularly notable, as usual… Kevin Cannon has contributed another one of his enormous, chicken-fat-filled cartoons:

Click the images to go to the City Pages Comix Issue, and see the above cartoon much, much larger!

Note that you can leave comments on the feature on the City Pages website here.

UPDATE: The City Pages Comix Issue was just featured in the Comics Reporter here.

Crumbling Paper: School Days – Half the World are Nuts and the Other Half are Squirrels

Here’s an example I scanned of School Days with the header strip A Dog’s Life from October 3, 1926 by Clare “Dwig” Dwiggins.

Click the image to view the full strip.

Click here to read Home Wanted by a Baby by Clare “Dwig” Dwiggins at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read an example of When Dreams Come True by Clare “Dwig” Dwiggins at Stripper’s Guide.

See details of a watercolor by Clare “Dwig” Dwiggins here.

See a cool card with a fortune telling witch drawn by Clare “Dwig” Dwiggins here.

See the entire book Crankisms by Lisle de Vaux Matthewman, illustrated by Clare “Dwig” Dwiggins at gutenberg.org here.

See the entire book Andiron Tales by John Kendrick Bangs, illustrated by Clare “Dwig” Dwiggins at gutenberg.org here.

Click here to read about Clare “Dwig” Dwiggins at lambiek.net.

Click here to read more about School Days at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

Read some obscure and interesting information about Clare “Dwig” Dwiggins in the comments to this post on the A Revoltin’ Development blog.

HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Jack Cole Week at Those Fabuleous Fifties : July 7th, 2008

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Last week was Jack Cole week at the Those Fabuleous Fifties blog. Jack Cole is best known today as the creator of Plastic Man, and he did a lot of wild crime and humor comics as well. Click the image below to read some good examples.

HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Otto Messmer’s Felix the Cat

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Another unbelievably great selection of new old comics on the web. As has been the case recently, it is hard to pick one to feature… Jack Cole, Frank Frazetta funny animals, comics by Tad, a whole Milt Gross book (!!!) and much more great stuff can be found below. I’ve chosen to feature Otto Messmer’s Felix the Cat. Messmer is another one of the greats of childrens’ comics. He has a beautifully simple style, and I love the way his stories unwind. Although widely acclaimed, Messmer still seems pretty underrated to me, and is really in need of more reprinting (Fantagraphics did do a great reprint of some of his newspaper strips a while ago called Nine Lives to Live: A Classic Felix Celebration). I think his Felix comics could sell like crazy if some good publisher packaged them well and marketed them to children. Click on the image below to read a Felix comic at Comicrazys.

#37: pixie

#37: pixie

cutepoints (1-10): 3
disposition: vociferous
about: pixie would like to have a
word with you. many words. she
never lets not having anything
to say get in the way of saying
it. once a squirrel crawled down
her throat thinking it was a cave.
quote: “doncha know? know what
i mean? i mean, really. um.”
likes: watermelons, water slides

Crumbling Paper: Joe Jinks

Here’s an example I scanned of Joe Jinks with the header strip It Seems That- from 1929 or 1930 by Vic Forsythe.

Click the image to view the full strip.

See I’m Falling in Love With Someone by Vic Forsythe at Stripper’s Guide.

See The Little Woman and Way Out West by Vic Forsythe at Stripper’s Guide.

Click here to read about Vic Forsythe at lambiek.net.

Click here to read more about Joe Jinks at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

See some Joe Jinks originals at comicstripfan.com.

HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : John Stanley’s Other Comics : June 26th, 2008

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Scans Daily has recently had a number of posts of comics written by the great John Stanley. I’ve been reading a whole lot of Stanley’s brilliant Little Lulu comics recently with my daughter, and they are some of the best kids’ comics ever written. So great is Little Lulu that is has overshadowed Stanley’s other comics work in most comics aficionados minds.

It is interesting to see some more of his other work… his work was rarely credited at the companies he worked for, and I hadn’t really realized what a variety of work he did.

If you want more, note the wonderful (and very affordable) series of Little Lulu books that was recently published by Dark Horse Comics, and also note that Drawn and Quarterly recently announced that they will be publishing much of Stanley’s other comics work. Click the image below to go to the latest Stanley post on Scans Daily.