Happy Friday the 13th!

TODAY’S FEATURED LINK:

I’m excited to call your attention to The National Digital Newspaper Program, the first online newspaper site I’ve seen where the comics appear to be in reasonably good resolution (you could actually print these and have it look decent)… and it’s free! Thank you, gubbmint, for doing something worthwhile for once! Unfortunately, no color, but still fantastic. Check out the great comics sections from The Salt Lake Herald, for a good example. Those of you out there participating in the previously mentioned BIG FUNNY project will want to check this out for sure!

Also, here’s an index of online newspaper digitization projects.

Below: An example of Gus Mager’s Rhymo the Monk from The Salt Lake Herald, courtesy of the National Digital Newspaper Program. A WHOLE LOT more at the link.

• Jason Lutes
• S-1009 Greenwood County Singers – “Cake Walkin’ Baby”
• S-1010 Kay Starr – “Around the World”
• Collectanea Botanica
• Here’s Another Good Angouleme Photo Set
• Today’s Video Link
• Feb. 13, 2009: To Derrida for me
• Campaign for Guantánamo Detainee, Torture Survivor, Reaches Directly to Obama
• EFF updates blogger legal guide
• lionoirdec
• Old Boys Book Collectors Part One
• Jeff Parker at CBR
• W. K. Haselden How I Began
• Darwin’s Predicted Moth
• Jr’s Fun To Draw
• MOVIE: Captain American Movie Serial #2-4
• MAGAZINE: Fantastic Monsters
• dany
• CBS Saturday Morning 1970
• Comic : Terrors of Dracula
• *N. C. Wyeth* Scribners Magazine From 1904-1928 Wyeth
• Mysto Fox
• Nothing Published Nothing Read Sunday Leftover Day
• Pulp Doc
• Storyboard Documentary Tells it Like it Is
• chats
• *Willy Pogany* 1882 ~ 1955 Tannhauser
• Magazine : Fantastic Monasters of Filmland #3
• *Zhenya Gay* 1906 ~ 1978
• The Scariest Thing in this Whole Comic Book: Save Your Hair!
• *J Allen St John* 1875 ~ 1957
• maison campagne
• *Edward Steichen* 1879 ~ 1973
• MAGAZINE: Fantastic Monsters #4
• You Know Jobs Are Hard to Find…
• Super Robot Red Baron PS 45
• John Hassall (1868-1948)
• Masters of the Feuilleton
• Hierarchy – Level 1 – Composition, Relations of Basic Construction
• Bodyworld Complete
• Hindu extremists promote cow-urine soft-drink
• World’s great cartoonists enjoy standing on rocks, talking in diners
• Feb. 12, 2009: The opposite of a snob
• Blambot Comic Fonts and Lettering
• The Comics Journal Message Board :: View topic – The Artist Himself: A Rand Holmes Retrospective (Paperback)
• mental_floss Blog » 8 Forgotten Kids Shows Sure to Give You Nightmares
• Supremely odd vintage photo collection
• San Francisco weird icon “Puzzling Evidence” puts video archive online
• Salmonella Peanut CEO won’t eat his own peanuts, cites Fifth Amendment
• Obama’s “Disgraceful Abandonment” of Civil Liberties in Extraordinary Rendition Case
• Flashmob of ATM crooks scores $9 million in 49 cities
• Typographic conventions in comic-book lettering
• Osamu Tezuka, Gone 20 Years
• FFF Results Post #150 — The King
• Why Diamond’s New Minimums Policy Is Wrong, and What They Should Do About It
• Ghastly working conditions in a Chinese keyboard factory
• Photos from Heinlein’s lost moon movie
• RIAA takes Over the DoJ under Obama: Bad News for Copyfighters
• Trough of No Value: the period when objects aren’t collectable
• MPAA’s Beloved “Network Monitoring” To Be Included In Broadband Stimulus Bill
• Pong Museum
• The Great Al Jaffee
• Abandoned hospital photos
• Interview with Warren Buffett about ukulele
• Phantom Corsair from 1938
• Making a toaster from scratch, mining the raw materials
• A Small Poem In Honor Of The Terrifying Woman-Headed Baby In January 24’s Episode Of Rex Morgan, MD
• Action Figure museum gallery
• “Mysteries” magical tour
• Freddy and Harley: 1922
• Feb. 11, 2009: Convenience-store hot dogs are evil
• BURN HOLLYWOOD BURN (or: HORTON HEARS…oh, i hope you all just FRY IN HELL)
• WFMU’s Antique Phonograph Music Program from Feb 10, 2009
• Go Read It!
• Meditation Podcast?
• Not a Font
• Jim Haverkamp’s videos on Vimeo
• Feb. 10, 2009: Competition and consumer tastes
• Lying In The Gutters – 2-9-2009
• ICON: Newspaper digitization
• National Digital Newspaper Program
• Chronicling America – The Library of Congress
• RIP LUX
• Every Swear Word on Every Episode of the Sopranos, Ever, in Chronological Order. (video)
• Feb. 9, 2009: Some sort of sports bra
• The Comics Journal Message Board :: View topic – Give Newspapers Some Respect!
• The Comics Journal Message Board :: View topic – For all you Dan Clowes fans
• Coraline Mystery Box Roundup
• Kirby
• Famous Monsters – Issue #1
• Pedagogical Institution (Stone Age Cartoon)
• Neil Gaiman’s first couple times at the Bat
• The Ghostly Wild Man of Far Rockaway
• Evil Flying Jesus Stars in the Real Worst Cartoon Ever
• Guest Strip: Andrew Lorenzi
• Funny Cartoon Inking – A Look at Various Styles
• This Modern World – Blog Archive – A brief personal history of altweekly comics in America
• Coraline box 42/50 — treasure in the mail
• nib porn!
• Feb. 6, 2009: Print is pay and online is free
• Young Man Standing on His Head
• Preview of Pete Emslie’s Theory of Generic VS Specific
• Pete Emslie’s Theory Of Design VS Humor
• Coraline Opens Today
• S-1005 Della Reese – “Won’t You Come Home Bill Bailey”
• Recap: Dumbo’s bath
• S-1006 Mary Kaye – “Toreador”
• S-1007 Jane Morgan – “C’est Si Bon”
• Tuesday Q&A: Howard Chaykin
• Tuesday Q&A: Paul Tobin
• Jack Kirby, Gone Fifteen Years
• KIbbles ‘n’ Bits, 2/6/09
• ZAPPA RELATED: Lord Buckley
• American Old Postcards
• Lux Interior dies at 60; founder, front man of punk band the Cramps – Los Angeles Times
• Mt. Holly, MN – a division of La Mano Industries
• Minneapolis Street Car Golden Age
• US Media Bias, Human Rights, and the Hamas Government in Gaza
• L.A. Life
• What Henry Did
• Preview video/slideshow: Mome Vol. 14 – Spring 2009
• Indian matchbox art
• Treasures from the Archive
• tramway recto
• Rocket’s-Blast Comicollector Zine
• Extinct Ibex Resurrected by Cloning … Then Goes Extinct Again
• Franken asks high court to order election certificate
• Spiegelman on Orphan Annie
• Cruikshank’s Door-Knocker
• *Alberto Varga* 1896 ~ 1982 Born *Alberto Vargas*
• The Ragtime Goblin
• The Comics Journal Message Board :: View topic – Complete Bloom County will come out in the fall from IDW.
• High school teacher recounts being dosed
• Name this Insect
• Today’s Video Link
• Disney Artists Write Home During WWII
• Forry Ackerman auction news
• Feb. 5, 2009: Next gasp?
• IDW visits “Bloom County”
• Reed Crandall On Barsoom
• Lux Interior RIP
• The Making of the World’s Most Amazing Pop-Up Books
• TED2009: Bill Gates on eradicating malaria
• Seek Ye the Hilaritas!
• Neil Gaiman Discusses “The Graveyard Book”
• BURDEN’S FLAMING CARROT & CHUPACABRA AT NYCC
• Life in our New Century
• Congressman Wants Ticketmaster Investigated For ‘TicketsNow Website
• IT’S ON!
• A Condensed History of Stop-Motion Animation
• Spinal Tap Recording New Material
• THE SHOCKING TRUTH – 1965 GREAT BOOKS AD
• Future of webcomics in print?
• A Coraline Linkorama
• Recount trial continues, one ballot at a time
• Behind the scenes of Coraline
• David Lynch goes online for ‘Detective’
• Gary Baseman explains the characters and symbolism in his work
• Michael Cho’s inking tips
• Bundled, Tossed, Untied and Stacked
• House Passes Bill Providing Redress For Those Erroneously Placed On Watch Lists