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Suspense: The Comic Strip Murder (1949)

Courtesy of The Internet Archive’s remarkable Classic TV collection, and the Auto-Lite Theatre. Remember, you’re always right with Auto Lite.

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HEY! KIDS! COMICS! Tim Sievert’s Intrepideers and the Brothers of Blood : June 18th, 2009

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My friend Tim Sievert (author of the wonderful graphic novel That Salty Air) has an excerpt of his fun adventure comic The Intrepideers featured today in a 9-page excerpt on the topshelfcomix.com site.

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INTERESTING LINKS: Pocket Cartoon Course at Scary Terry’s World & Good Time to Donate to The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library: June 17th, 2009

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On his Scary Terry’s World blog, cartoonist Terry Beatty has posted a wonderful little instructional booklet from 1943 called Pocket Cartoon Course. If you can identify the artist who drew it, he would like to know. Go check it out!

Terry has apparently been digging through his collections and plans on sharing more cool old stuff… like this great Nell Brinkley cartoon, for example.

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Allan Holtz at the Stripper’s Guide blog notes that now is a very good time to give to The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library, which, by all accounts, has the most fantastic collection of comic art in the world:

The Ohio State University’s Cartoon Research Library has been given a $1 million gift by Jeanne Schulz (widow of Charles) for the renovation of a desperately needed larger facility for their ever-expanding holdings. This is great news. Even better, though is that Jeanne has pledged up to another $2.5 million dollars in matching funds for other donations to the library. In other words, for every dollar you give, Jeanne will match it with a buck of her own. Everything you can afford to give will go twice as far!

Here is a video on the subject, with a glimpse at their incredible holdings:

What are you waiting for?

Read more about this opportunity on the Stripper’s Guide blog here.

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HEY! KIDS! COMICS! Danno’s Manly Tales of Cowardice : May 27th, 2009

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My good friend Danno (aka Staplegenius aka Dank) has recently started a blog at staplegenius.com that he is posting his hilarious comics to on a daily basis. Danno is one of the fastest and funniest cartoonists I know, so hopefully he will keep up the pace! He is currently serializing his comics series Manly Tales of Cowardice, featuring Fleming Hazmat… go check it out!

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INTERESTING LINKS: Mars Attacks! May 27th, 2009

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The Golden Age Comic Book Stories blog has posted some nice scans of the complete series of the notorious and gleefully gruesome Mars Attacks! cards painted by Norm Saunders and Bob Powell (the inspiration for the Tim Burton movie of the same name), as well as the roughs for the cards drawn by Wally Wood and Bob Powell.

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HEY! KIDS! COMICS! The Fox and the Crow at The Crosseyed Cyclops! May 8th, 2009

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The Crosseyed Cyclops has a big stack of issues of DC’s series The Fox and the Crow available here. The series was based on characters created by Frank Tashlin for Columbia’s Screen Gems cartoon series (you can see some of the cartoons here).

Fox and Crow started their comic book career in the pages of DC’s Real Screen Funnies, but were popular enough to eventually graduate to their own series, which ran until 1968.

In spite of their popularity they are mostly forgotten today… which is a shame, because their comics (and cartoons) are usually wonderfully executed and frequently hilarious. I don’t know much about the creative teams on these books, but Don Markstein’s Toonopedia credits them primarily to artist Jim Davis (obviously not the Jim Davis of Garfield fame) and writers Hubie Karp and Cecil Beard.

Read more about Fox and Crow on Wikipedia.

Read more about Fox and Crow at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.