TODAY’S FEATURED ITEMS:

The New York Times has an overview of most of the “graphic novels” they have featured in their publications so far. I guess that the Times calling these graphic novels should be expected from a paper too clueless to have a comics section for the entire twentieth century. Chris Ware’s comic is notably absent. Although it is a large stretch to refer to these as graphic novels, it is an excellent bunch of comics, including Dan Clowes Mr. Wonderful, Seth’s George Sprott, Rutu Modan’s Murder of the Terminal Patient, Jason’s Low Moon and Megan Kelso’s Watergate Sue.

More Frederick Opper at the Stripper’s Guide here and here.

John Adcock gives us an updated biography of Arch Dale with many illustrations and comics at his Punch in Canada Blog.

Finally, here’s some rare Dr. Seuss courtesy of Mystery Hoard.

• The Funny Pages – The New York Times Magazine
  from The New York Times
• Home – The British Cartoon Archive – University of Kent
  from cartoons.ac.uk
• Comic Art of Arch Dale
  from Punch in Canada
• Freckles – 02/08/1924
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Freckles – 02/09/1924
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Freckles – 02/10/1924
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Summer fun for November: from Four Color 1034, Nancy & Sluggo Summer Camp
  from Stanley Stories
• The Man with No Face!
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• the novelty egg
  from Mattias Inks
• Ordinary People
  from Top Shelf 2.0 Webcomics
• Number 413 The cross-dressing killer I’m A Cop
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Have You No Shane? Friday Comic Book Day
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Yet More Opper Overflow from the New Happy Hooligan Book
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Freckles – 02/07/1924
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• I’m Short Measure
  from Mystery Hoard
• Jaime Hernandez Sketches
  from Mystery Hoard
• Mystery Hoard: Dr. Seuss’s Boners
  from Mystery Hoard
• Oh, Happy Dawn Thursday Story Strip Day
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• ACABA DE PONERSE A LA VENTA EL COYOTE
  from Viñetas
• Raoul Barré Links
  from Punch in Canada
• MAZINGER-Z, EL ROBOT DE LAS ESTRELLAS…
  from Viñetas
• EL PAJE ELGORRIAGA (1962)
  from Viñetas
• BARRILETE Y LARGUIRACIO, PIONEROS DEL ESPACIO
  from Viñetas
• From the Black Terror Scrap Book
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Bizzy and Dizzy in Hunger Pains
  from Nedor-A-Day
• *Burma Sky* *by* Archie Goodwin *&* Alex Toth *
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• *Food For Thought* Script *by* Jack Oleck
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• Buried Alive!
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• *Jim Steranko’s* 1971 Art Calendar
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• Escape To Death
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Taliaferro panel
  from Sekvenskonst
• A Flame Expelled
  from Top Shelf 2.0 Webcomics
• Dancing Skeleton Robots
  from Mattias Inks
• Jimmy Hatlo
  from Hairy Green Eyeball
• Diggin’ Ditko: Killjoy
  from Diversions of the Groovy Kind
• “Secret of the Leatherman” (cont.)
  from The Comic Book Catacombs
• Rulah Jungle Goddess in “Secret of the Leatherman”
  from The Comic Book Catacombs
• More Opper Overflow from the New Happy Hooligan Book
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Back from Italy
  from Boltcity

TODAY’S FEATURED ITEMS:

John Adcock is on a roll! Today his Punch in Canada blog gives us two more posts of extremely rare and beautiful Arch Dale’s Doo Dads Sundays…

And his Yesterday’s Papers blog brings us some crude and bizarre ghosted Katzenjammer Kids dailies…

and A.D. Condo’s Everett True Vs. the Kaiser!

Meanwhile our friends at Barnacle Press give us three great overviews of some of the best strips in their enormous archives:

Ten Must-Read Classics from Barnacle Press
Ten Lesser-Known Works by Major Creators from Barnacle Press
Ten Features for Kids from Barnacle Press

Next we have the first new Beanworld comic by Larry Marder in I can’t remember how long. Apparently, there is a lot more to come, as Larry Marder has made a return to drawing comics after a decade or so absence. Don’t miss this stuff! Marder has always done utterly unique and wonderful work, and I’m thrilled that he is back at the drawing board… he is one of my favorite cartoonists. His plans also include reprinting all of his old work, so you’ll be able to easily start at the beginning.

And as long as I am going totally overboard with the featured links, here is another Wolverton Culture Corner strip (at the bottom of the Lance O’Casey story) courtesy of Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine:

• ABIDING IN CHRIST
  from Viñetas
• Lickety-Whop: Captain Easy Versus Everybody Part 03
  from CR Briefings
• Freckles – 01/25/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Nå†iønål Låmpøøn Strips [Re-Post, By Request]
  from datajunkie
• Go, Look: Christophe Blain
  from CR Briefings
• Speaking of Strips, How about Animal Crackers?
  from Beautiful Balloons with Maggie Thompson
• Go, Look: Manu Larcenet
  from CR Briefings
• Cartoonists’ Exchange
  from Mike Lynch Cartoons
• Errand Service
  from Top Shelf 2.0 Webcomics
• Daily Mail strips 16 October 1964
  from Bear Alley
• Go, Bookmark: Mugwhump the Great
  from CR Briefings
• Go, Look: The Crooked Leg
  from CR Briefings
• “? and !” is online. Become a Beanworld MySpace friend!
  from Larry Marder’s Beanworld
• Self-portraits of 52 cartoonists (from 1985)
  from Mike Lynch Cartoons
• Ten Features for Kids from Barnacle Press
  from The Barnacle Blog
• Bizarre anti-gay comic book from 1980s
  from Boing Boing
• Cars, Alex Toth, and Punk Rock
  from Comics Comics
• 2 Specks of Light
  from Top Shelf 2.0 Webcomics
• Ten Lesser-Known Works by Major Creators from Barnacle Press
  from The Barnacle Blog
• A Visit To A Lost Love
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Eleven Daily Katzies 1917
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Little Nemo 1913-03-24
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Night of Horror
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• The Invaders
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Ghost Train Of Golden Gorge
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• “I’m Autumn, and I approve this message.”
  from In This Corner
• Here’s a Perishers Sample
  from Beautiful Balloons with Maggie Thompson
• Ronald Searle cover collection
  from Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog
• What Everett True would do to the Kaiser
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Grapenut Flakes Post Wednesday Advertising Day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Ten Must-Read Classics from Barnacle Press
  from The Barnacle Blog
• Captain Gallant and His Mini-Sub (cont.)
  from The Comic Book Catacombs
• Captain Gallant and His Mini-Sub
  from The Comic Book Catacombs
• Jigger’s search for food: from “Animal Comics” #24 & #26
  from Stanley Stories
• Doo Dad Sundays III
  from Punch in Canada
• Supermans Pal Jimmy Olsen #32
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Calvin’s Dad: Greatest Hits, Volume 2
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Little Nemo 1913-03-06
  from Comic Strip Library News
• The All-American Art, Cartooning
  from Hairy Green Eyeball
• Death Thumbs a Ride
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• The American Eagle: The Coiled Treachery of Nippon
  from Nedor-A-Day
• The Map Of Doom
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Number 372 Lance O’Casey’s magic lamp
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Obscurity of the Day: The Ambassador
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Freckles – 01/24/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Doo Dad Sundays IV
  from Punch in Canada
• Don’t Want This
  from Introspective Comics
• Gone Fishin’ + Halftone How-To
  from Zettwoch’s Suitcase

TODAY’S FEATURED COMICS: Today is an easy pick, in spite of there being the usual bunch of great stuff. My friend John Adcock at Punch in Canada has started posting a bunch of gorgeous examples of the obscure but wonderful comic The Doo Dads by Arch Dale. I haven’t seen that much of Dale’s work, as it is exceedingly difficult to see! It has never been reprinted, and if you want to read more of it you’ll probably have to hunt down the actual newspapers from when it was printed. What I have seen of his work has left a big impression.

Dale is often seen as a Herriman clone, and clearly Herriman was a large influence on him. It is terribly unfair to dismiss his work for this, though… his work is unique and he very much has his own voice and style.

John also shares the story about how he scanned a huge stack of these strips he borrowed and then had the files corrupt or disappear on him… it just makes me wanna cry. Fortunately these scans survived. Boy would I like to see more of this stuff… someone, please make a book on Arch Dale! You Canadians can get government grants for this sort of thing can’t you?

See the first post here and the second one here… sounds like there is more to come!

• Cul-de-Sac the Book! Almost
  from cul de sac
• Eerie Repost & More! [By Request!]
  from datajunkie
• ANTSPUR
  from PULPHOPE
• Unspent Love #2
  from Top Shelf 2.0 Webcomics
• wide-eyed awake
  from Jim Flora
• I AM THE GORILLA MAN
  from Gorilla Men
• NCS Frank Frazetta Tribute Book
  from Mike Lynch Cartoons
• Just Kidding, I mean: SHOO SLOG
  from The Canada Council For The Arts MARC BELL Dept
• Chocolate Cheeks for 8/29/08
  from FLOG! Entries
• I Surely Do Love Final Episodes
  from CR Briefings
• Cold Cure
  from ThadBlog
• Kurtza Minor Saturday leftover Day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Black Terror: Peril of the “Patriotic Americans”
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Black Terror #16 Cover
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Yankee Doodle Jones – Patriotism on Crack
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Scribbly! (2-B & C)
  from ThadBlog
• Little Nemo 1913-01-26
  from Comic Strip Library News
• The Final Horror
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• The Fighting Yank Meets Dr. Psycho
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Herriman Saturday
  from Stripper’s Guide
• The Black Terror: Lady Serpent Returns!
  from Nedor-A-Day
• “Lois Lane’s Love Trap!”
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• *Travelers of Space*
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• Alan Moore – Future Shocks – The Wages of Sin
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Superman Girlfriend Lois Lane #90
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Little Nemo 1913-02-02
  from Comic Strip Library News
• The Recluse + THOIA (a poem)
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Convention Memories
  from cul de sac
• Sunday Pin-Up
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Dodger da Squoil from Brooklyn in a One Squoil Tree
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Return visit. Sunday leftover day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Number 370 “Dragged to your death!”
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Jim Ivey’s Sunday Comics
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Little Nemo 1913-02-09
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Famous Artists Cartoon Course – Lesson 3: Inking The Head and Figure
  from comicrazys
• You Can’t Cheat a Ghost
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Cookie, No. 46
  from Geeklog Site
• The Mutineers
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Superboy #19 (1952)
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Number 371 Carried down to the fiery depths of hades
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Flight to Venus
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Hero of Space
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Why Read At All ? by Lewis Baumer (1870-1963)
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Ritzy Fritzi Ritz
  from Hairy Green Eyeball
• Arch Dale’s American Sundays 1925
  from Punch in Canada
• “A Date with Miss Metropolis”
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• True Cartooning Monday Cartoon Dy.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Happy Jerry Lewis Day!
  from Mark Kausler’s CatBlog
• How to Draw Cartoons the U.S. Army Way! WWII-era Cartooning
  from Cartoon SNAP
• Little Nemo 1913-02-16
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Doo Dad Sundays II
  from Punch in Canada
• Freckles – 01/22/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Supermouse Hits Crimewave!
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Coo-Coo Comics #23 cover
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Zombie Vengeance
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Okay, my last post was not well received.
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Danger In Gameland
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Comics will win the war!
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Giant Size Hernandez Bros.
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Obscurity of the Day: Bruno and Pietro
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Freckles – 01/23/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Reed Crandall 1917 ~ 1982
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• McCloud announces Google Chrome
  from THE BEAT
• No
  from Introspective Comics
• Warm-Up Drawings: the Book
  from RobotJohnny.com
• Don Martin and the Essence of Cartooning.
  from John K Stuff
• Go, Look: Meet Sally Sampers
  from CR Briefings
• Woody Woodpecker, from “New Funnies” #94, 1944: Octo-pushy!
  from Stanley Stories