TODAY’S FEATURED ITEMS:

More rare Opper strips from Allan Holtz at The Stripper’s Guide! One particularly interesting item features most of Opper’s characters that were current at that time in one strip… a panel from it can be seen above. See the strips here and here.

Also, another of Mr. Holtz’s wonderful Herriman Saturdays, reprinting some of George Herriman’s extremely rare early editorial cartooning work. This week includes more coverage of the previously mentioned Shriners’ convention.

Another beautiful monstrosity from Jim Woodring.

The Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories Donald Duck 8-pager Gopher Goof-Ups by Carl Barks courtesy of Rodney Bowcock’s Comics & Stories.

A rare, beautifully drawn comic to sell kids shoes by Walt-Kelly-influenced animator Dave Tendlar courtesy of Cartoon Brew.

• Satan And The Devil-Bull
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Esquire
  from Geeklog Site
• A Mox On You! Tuesday Comic Strip Day
  from Those Fabuleous 50’s
• Staring match
  from Mattias Inks
• The Blue Kid Lost at Sea, part 1
  from Top Shelf 2.0 Webcomics
• Cheap Detectives Week: Atlas/Seaboard’s Police Action
  from Diversions of the Groovy Kind
• The Last of the Opper Overflow
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Ghost in the House
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Steve Brodner: The “Family Values” Gang: RIP
  from Mike Lynch Cartoons
• Truck Stop
  from Potrzebie
• Tendlar-Post Promotional Comic Book
  from Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation
• Guest Strip: Harvey Pekar and Alison Bechdel
  from The Daily Cross Hatch
• SIGHT WITHOUT LIGHT
  from The Woodring Monitor
• Julius the Robot
  from Uncle Ernie’s Creature Ink
• Italy Photos
  from Boltcity
• “Superboy’s Big Brother!”
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Wouldn’t some CHARLES ADDAMS be good right now?
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• World War One propaganda cartoons (that damn Kaiser!)
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Infinite Kung Fu, part 7
  from Top Shelf 2.0 Webcomics
• Another Fine Meskin Saterday Leftover Day
  from Those Fabuleous 50’s
• Oh, the horror of it! Sunday Leftover Day
  from Those Fabuleous 50’s
• The Magic Word / Innocent Bystander
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Jim Ivey’s Sunday Comics
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Even Yet More Opper Overflow from the New Happy Hooligan Book
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Gopher Goof-Ups (WDCS 189)
  from Rodney Bowcock’s Comics & Stories
• Number 414 Miss America and the Shocker
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• The Busy Deer
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Phineas the Parrot: The Daily Paper
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Little Billy Bear: Hunting
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Little Billy Bear
  from Nedor-A-Day
• The Fighting Yank: Patriots on Parade
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Jetta in My Cosmic Hero
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Coo Coo In Viva Mexico!
  from Nedor-A-Day
• The Rio Kid: The Outlaw Quirt Bronson
  from Nedor-A-Day
• The non shaver
  from Mattias Inks
• Freckles – 02/12/1924
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Dime Novels
  from Hairy Green Eyeball
• Astonishing #55 ~ Nov/1956 Strange Tales #53
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• 7 stories illustrated *by* Angelo Torres
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• *Angelo Torres*
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• Birth Of A Badman
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Sunday Funnies: Cheap Detectives Week
  from Diversions of the Groovy Kind
• Today’s Poor Almanack
  from cul de sac
• Journal 65: About Music 2. Page 15
  from Barron Storey: The Journals
• Journal 65: About Music 2. Page 21.
  from Barron Storey: The Journals
• Journal 65: About Music 2. Page 22.
  from Barron Storey: The Journals
• Journal 65: About Music 2. Page 23.
  from Barron Storey: The Journals
• *Frank Frazetta* The Opar Press Portfolio ~ 1968
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• The Head of the Family!
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Interactions
  from Mattias Inks
• The Eye Sees
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Number 415 Lorna and the man-killer
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Cheap Detectives Week: Tim Trench and Jason Bard
  from Diversions of the Groovy Kind
• Herriman Saturday
  from Stripper’s Guide
• More from Four Color 1034, Nancy & Sluggo Summer Camp, 1959
  from Stanley Stories
• The Big Sewer
  from Hairy Green Eyeball
• a sketch in ballpoint
  from The Uttertoad Comix Heist
• “Tattoo guidelines”
  from In This Corner
• Typhoid
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Boppity But Boop
  from Monster Without A Cause
• Webcomics update for 11/14/08
  from FLOG! Entries

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:

United Features just made a huge amount of content available online for free at their comics.com site… including the complete Peanuts! Good grief!

UPDATE: Browsing some more, I noticed that in addition to all that Peanuts, they also appear to have a whole lot of Al Capp’s Li’l Abner on there! Unfortunately, Nancy only goes back to 2000, long after the death of the strip’s genius creator Ernie Bushmiller.

Allan Holtz’s excellent Stripper’s Guide blog has some great Frederick Opper strips to celebrate the release of a new Happy Hooligan book from NBM, including a wonderful rarity called The Red Rig-A-Jigs.

• United Features website goes free, including 50 years of Peanuts
  from Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog
• Seth in The Times
  from The Ephemerist
• BATTLING BOY– THE DESCENT
  from PULPHOPE
• “Mandrake the Magician” [1 of 2] (1944) by Lee Falk & Phil Davis
  from Cowan Collection: Animation & Comic
• The Diffusion of Responsibility…
  from THE BALLOONIST
• Military Caricatures
  from BibliOdyssey
• modules
  from Jim Flora
• One for the Mütter Museum
  from Jim Flora
• French Gag Cartoons Circa 1956
  from Mike Lynch Cartoons
• Till Eulenspiegel’s evolution
  from Jim Flora
• Though actually, I’ll take giant rabbits as a decent consolation prize
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Le nez dedans (2) : Un rhume de cerveau
  from Töpfferiana
• Dead End Dennis (Dennis the Menace 4)
  from Rodney Bowcock’s Comics & Stories
• When Golden Age comics condoned interracial UST (the Airboy supporting cast edition)
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Skrak’s Secret!
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• The Fighting Yank: Taxi Terror!
  from Nedor-A-Day
• The Adstrip of Champions Wednesday Advertising Day
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Laura
  from Top Shelf 2.0 Webcomics
• The Ultimate Evil
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Number 412 II from WWII
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Black and White Wednesday: War Toy by Tony Isabella and George Perez
  from Diversions of the Groovy Kind
• New Happy Hooligan Book Just Published
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Sketchbook: Swarte
  from FLOG! Entries
• Sketchbook: Karasik
  from FLOG! Entries
• UB IWERKS comic art
  from TAGTOONZ
• MICKEY SUNDAY STRIPS
  from TAGTOONZ
• MICKEY SUNDAY part 2
  from TAGTOONZ
• MICKEY SUNDAY part 3
  from TAGTOONZ
• The Adventures of Mickey Mouse
  from TAGTOONZ
• Albert Hurter HE DREW AS HE PLEASED
  from TAGTOONZ
• MICKEY SUNDAY part 4
  from TAGTOONZ
• MICKEY SUNDAY part 5
  from TAGTOONZ
• MICKEY SUNDAY part 6
  from TAGTOONZ
• COMING SOON to a theater near you
  from TAGTOONZ
• MICKEY SUNDAY part 7
  from TAGTOONZ
• MICKEY SUNDAY part 8
  from TAGTOONZ
• MORRELL’S WALT DISNEY CALENDAR – 1942
  from TAGTOONZ
• MICKEY SUNDAY part 9
  from TAGTOONZ
• MICKEY SUNDAY part 10
  from TAGTOONZ
• MICKEY SUNDAY part 11
  from TAGTOONZ
• MICKEY SUNDAY part 12
  from TAGTOONZ
• MICKEY SUNDAY part 13
  from TAGTOONZ
• MICKEY SUNDAY part 14
  from TAGTOONZ
• MICKEY SUNDAY – part 14
  from TAGTOONZ
• SUNDAY DONALD
  from TAGTOONZ
• PLANE CRAZY ’storyboard’ pages
  from TAGTOONZ
• If This Is Who You Think I Am
  from Introspective Comics
• Poor Old Cholly Bran
  from Rick Veitch
• The Secrets Of Alan’s Brain
  from Rick Veitch
• Another Bit
  from Rick Veitch
• Li’l Bits
  from Rick Veitch
• Can’t Play Fiends
  from Rick Veitch
• Out On A Dream Limb
  from Rick Veitch
• Dream Steam
  from Rick Veitch
• Merrily, Merrily, Merrily, Merrily
  from Rick Veitch
• Ah, Coitus!
  from Rick Veitch
• Death Chicky
  from Rick Veitch
• Webcomics update for 11/7/08
  from FLOG! Entries

The wonderful ASIFA Animation Archive is offering a great deal for donations…

One of our most steadfast supporters is Marc Deckter. Marc is allowing us to digitize hundreds and hundreds of rare 1930s Sunday pages from his extensive collection. Last year, Marc issued a challenge to readers of this blog. Today, he is challenging you to help again.

Contribute $20 to the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive through the PayPal link below, and Marc will provide us with a vintage Sunday page to publish here on the website. Donate $50 and he will share three of them… donate $100 and he will allow us to post eight pages. Purchase one of these hard drives and have it shipped to the Archive, and Marc will post FORTY rare Sunday pages! Marc has classic Otto Messmer Felix the Cat, Chic Young’s Blondie, Cliff Sterrett’s Polly and Her Pals, Milt Gross Sunday and other great pages ready to go. All you have to do to see them is contribute. As the total rises, Marc is prepared to throw in some extra treats, like he did last year. When you contribute, everyone benefits.

They have already posted a huge number of great strips from this promotion… please do give them money! Click the above image to go see some great comics!

Tom Spurgeon points us to this amazing golden age comics download site at goldenagecomics.co.uk Im pretty sure I’ve linked there before, but this is the first time I have explored it in detail… they have a ton of amazing public domain golden age books for free. What a resource!

Note that you can find links to software for viewing the comics here (they are .cbr files).

Click the cover of Animal Comics #23 featuring Walt Kelly’s Pogo above (one of the many, many comics available there) to go to the site. Here’s a link to the Animal Comics they have available.

Note that you will need to create and account to download the comics. Note also that they take down comics if they come to believe they are not in the public domain… many of the Dell comics listed are no longer available for this reason… there is no EC or DC, among other notable omissions.

No matter, they have an utter overload of amazing stuff… don’t miss this site!

Among his usual heap of great stuff he is posting daily on his blogs, John Adcock brings us the full version of the previously truncated Frederick Opper Katzenjammer strip I linked to the other day. Click the above image to see it.

Finally, two more great lists from our friends at another overwhelming site full of old comics, Barnacle Press:

Ten Final Hearty Recommendations From Your Other Pal, Holmes! and Ten More Must-See Strips from your pal, Thrillmer

• More FallCon Sketch Cards
  from Big Time Attic
• Cosmos
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Obscurity of the Day: Bronc Peeler
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Yoda sketchbook vol. 2 page 18 – Daniel Clowes
  from Fantagraphics Books – FriendFeed
• Triumph Over Terror
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Captain Universe
  from Bear Alley
• Fantastic Worlds #5 Cover
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Meet Me in the Cemetery
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Killer From Hicksville
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Action Comics #59 (1943)
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Number 376 Rocky X is stranger than strange!
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• I’d walk a Mile if I could Wednesday Advertising Day
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Get Lost!
  from Hairy Green Eyeball
• Women Won’t Be Attracted to You
  from Introspective Comics
• The First 100 Years
  from Raymond Scott
• Before Popeye II
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Mr. Muscles!
  from Golden Reading
• Robotman + Bazooka: The Atom Bubble Boy
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• My Pal “Foot… Foot…” from “Little Lulu” #94, 1956
  from Stanley Stories
• Little Nemo 1913-05-04
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Another British Strip — Choochi and Twink
  from Beautiful Balloons with Maggie Thompson
• Marc Deckter Challenge Day One
  from ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive
• Infinite Kung Fu, part 3
  from Top Shelf 2.0 Webcomics
• Nihilists in blackface: “Tom And Jerry” from OUR GANG COMICS #17, 1944
  from Stanley Stories
• Man From Planet X [Re-Post by Request!]
  from datajunkie
• Katzies Ghosts : Frederick Burr Opper
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• The Jackass Story
  from FLOG! Entries
• Little Nemo 1913-04-27
  from Comic Strip Library News
• My husband keeps telling me to go to hell…
  from Hairy Green Eyeball
• Another Milestone: Time For The Marc Deckter Challenge!
  from ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive
• Appointment in Hades
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Space Dictionary
  from Nedor-A-Day
• The Fighting Yank: Some Crooks Will Do Anything
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Flying Fists And Glamour
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• What’s a Coogy? Tuesday newspaper strip day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Obscurity of the Day: Professor Hypnotiser
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Blue Bolt, Vol. 6, No. 6 (N0. 62)
  from Geeklog Site
• Freckles – 01/31/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• SEXCAPADES THE LOVE LIFE OF THE MODERN HOMO SAPIENS by Al Ross
  from Mike Lynch Cartoons
• Before Popeye
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Box Tape Passage
  from Top Shelf 2.0 Webcomics
• The Horrors of RE-POST!
  from datajunkie
• Der Dough vas Haunted
  from Yesterday’s Papers Archive
• Minneapolis Jam: September 2008
  from CONSPIRE!
• DIRT IN THE AFTERNOON
  from The Woodring Monitor
• Friday Distraction: Golden Age Comics Downloads Site
  from CR Briefings
• Children’s Books: Les mauvaises têtes de Coquinet
  from Martin Klasch
• Children’s Books: Jim Flora
  from Martin Klasch
• New York! Philadelphia! Comic art shows!
  from Drawn and Quarterly
• Four More More
  from Top Shelf 2.0 Webcomics
• Cartoon Laffs
  from Scott Saavedra’s Comic Book Heaven
• Setting Sail with Boner’s Ark
  from Beautiful Balloons with Maggie Thompson
• Chocolate Cheeks for 9/5/08
  from FLOG! Entries
• Newspaper Comics Fans Look To Opus and Berke Breathed For Signs and Clues
  from CR Briefings
• Golden Age Comics Downloads
  from goldenagecomics.co.uk
• Freckles – 01/30/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• It’s fine, but is it art?
  from ThadBlog
• Design: Mice and Duck Model Sheets
  from ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive
• *America’s Best Comics #31 ~ July/1949*
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• *Story art by* Ruben Moreira
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• Spectator Sport Friday Comic Book Day
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• *The Black Terror #27 ~ June/1949*
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• *Exciting Comics #65 ~ Jan/1949*
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• The Black Terror
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• More Mr. Muscles + Kid Muscles!
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Semper Fi and all that jazz…
  from datajunkie
• Ten Final Hearty Recommendations From Your Other Pal, Holmes!
  from The Barnacle Blog
• Two Domestic Comedies
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• J. R. Williams (1888-1957)
  from Punch in Canada
• John Campbell Cory (1867-1925)
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• The Li’l Bad Wolf in Dietary Dilemma (WDCS 59)
  from Rodney Bowcock’s Comics & Stories
• John R. Neill’s Nip and Tuck 1909
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Little Nemo 1913-04-06
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Dr. Strange: At Grips With the Giant Electru
  from Nedor-A-Day
• The Vampire Maker!
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Sun strips 4 December 1967
  from Bear Alley
• Herriman Saturday
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Freckles – 01/27/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Melvin of the Apes Saturday leftover Day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Cartoon Humor
  from Hairy Green Eyeball
• The Little Journeys of Nip and Tuck Pt. 2
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Coming Soon A Trip to the Moon
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Do You “Dunc”? selections from “Dunc ‘n’ Loo” #1 and 3, 1961/2
  from Stanley Stories
• Nip and Tuck Pt. 3
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Johnny Doughboy
  from Golden Reading
• Bernard Dibble’s “Johnny Doughboy”
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Nip and Tuck Pt. 4
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Science Fiction Pioneer
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Terror in Town (+ Crazy Blogs!)
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• The Space Treasure
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Little Nemo 1913-04-13
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Number 374 I Shagged The World!
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Freckles – 01/29/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Rufus and Flook Versus Moses Maggot 2
  from Comic Books Are Interesting Except When They Are
• Pigtales: Comedy Comics #33 1946 – Harvey Kurtzman
  from comicrazys
• The Daffy Taffy Pull (WDCS 175)
  from Rodney Bowcock’s Comics & Stories
• Chartier Le Samedi Cover
  from Punch in Canada
• More Spector Speculation Sunday Leftover Day
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Twenty-seven years before Modok
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• “The Amazing Tots of Smallville!”
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Little Nemo 1913-04-20
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Jim Ivey’s Sunday Comics
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Samuel Spaniel vs. The Carrot Addict
  from Nedor-A-Day
• He Who Laughs Last
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Oswaldo Twee
  from cul de sac
• Traitors To The Earth
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Supermouse
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Number 375 Nancy and Sluggo’s weird world
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Not Attracted to This
  from Introspective Comics
• Ten More Must-See Strips from your pal, Thrillmer
  from The Barnacle Blog
• Lickety-Whop: Captain Easy Versus Everybody Part 04
  from CR Briefings
• 80s Japanese comic strip about Wozniak, Jobs, and Apple
  from Boing Boing
• More Strips from the Past: Archie
  from Beautiful Balloons with Maggie Thompson
• When Russia was awesome (Part 1)
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Freckles – 01/26/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends

John Adcock continues to post great stuff on his Yesterday’s Papers and Yesterday’s Papers Archive blogs, and brings us more strange ghosted daily Katzenjammer strips… these ones are utterly free of character, style or artistry, and ran under the title The Shenanigan Twins (apparently due to WWI anti-German sentiments… the old title returned soon after the war), still under Rudolph Dirks credit. The “gags” were presumably just lifted out of some old joke book… backgrounds are nowhere to be seen… hardly any violence either. Even the German ach-cents are gone! These strips are bland before their time, and would be right at home on a modern comics page.

He also posts a Katzenjammer strip he suspects is pencilled (not inked) by Frederick Opper, which seems very likely…

That’s not all! Here is a well done Mutt & Jeff clone called Hitt & Runn… apparently four-letter names ending in double letters is a crucial part of the ingredients to making a successful clone, even if the names are totally improbable.

And some rare, crude, very early E.C. Segar…

And more! Just go to his blogs and check them out.

Barnacle Press brings us another great list of greatest hits… Ten Particularly Odd Comic Strips from Barnacle Press. The Handy Man From Timbuctoo makes the list, naturally. Click on the below image from the bizarre Goops to go there.

Get out your crayons! Comicrazys manages to dig up ANOTHER Flip the Frog coloring book! Where do they find this stuff? I gotta print these for my daughter…

And, finally, Karswell at The Horrors of it All brings us World War III With the Ants from Captain Science #6… this story has some great, inventive layouts. The artist is apparently unknown… can anyone identify the artist (in their comments?):

• It’s A Crime, Chapter 6, Forgotten Artists
  from Simon and Kirby – Jack Kirby Museum & Research
• Vintage manga rules!!
  from MangaBlog
• Jon Vermilyea’s Kool-Aid Comic
  from Mike Lynch Cartoons
• Politics
  from Michael Sporn Animation – Splog
• Shenanigan Kids
  from Yesterday’s Papers Archive
• Hitt and Runn by “Hitt” 1917
  from Yesterday’s Papers Archive
• Katzies by Opper?
  from Yesterday’s Papers Archive
• Flip The Frog: Coloring Book No. 870 – The Ub Iwerks Studio
  from comicrazys
• Little Nemo 1913-03-30
  from Comic Strip Library News
• How Do They Do It ?
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• E. C. Segar (1894-1938)
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• “Hucky” Duck Goes into Business
  from Nedor-A-Day
• World War III with the Ants
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• The Woman In The Tower
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Number 373 Ghost Rider and the murder in wax!
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Forms of Speech
  from cul de sac
• Scathing Political Satire
  from cul de sac
• Devinettes “Les animaux c…
  from Agence eureka
• Devinettes “…
  from Agence eureka
• Devinettes +6
  from Agence eureka
• “Animaux humoristiques” à…
  from Agence eureka
• Devinettes
  from Agence eureka
• bestioles
  from Agence eureka
• “L’épatant” 19…
  from Agence eureka
• L’épatant (…
  from Agence eureka
• Devinet…
  from Agence eureka
• animaux humoristiques (+3)
  from Agence eureka
• Renard
  from Agence eureka
• V
  from Agence eureka
• V
  from Agence eureka
• Animaux humoristiques
  from Agence eureka
• Album Nestlé, Peter , Cailler,Kohler “Qui, …
  from Agence eureka
• “Guillaume tell” en bandes dessinées Bonne …
  from Agence eureka
• Devinettes (+6)
  from Agence eureka
• [image: oz 1] Une version BD du “Sorcier d’Oz” au…
  from Agence eureka
• [image: v241verso] V verso + 7 ici
  from Agence eureka
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Here’s another example of Frederick Opper’s strip Happy Hooligan an unknown date in 1902. This strip was posted to the Platinum Age Comics Group by someone trying to place the date for it… if you know the date, please help out and let us know in the comments! It is apparently not one of the ones housed on Barnacle Press. Note that this example appears to be scanned from a reprint book rather than the original newspaper page. Click the image to read the strip.

Please note: This comic contains a racial slur. If that sort of thing offends you, you may not want to read it.

You can see more examples of Happy Hooligan (and many other classic comics) at Barnacle Press. Here are some other Opper strips at Barnacle Press.

Here are some other Happy Hooligan examples from Bugpowder.

Here are some other Opper strips from Coconino Classics.

Although he is best known today for Happy Hooligan (which we’ve been reprinting examples of recently) Frederick Opper was responsible for a number of popular strips in the early 20th century. Here’s an example of Frederick Opper’s strip Howson Lott from 1911. Click the image to read the strip.

Here’s what the Stripper’s Guide has to say about Howson Lott.

Here are some other Opper strips from Coconino Classics.

Here are some other Opper strips at Barnacle Press.

Although he is best known today for Happy Hooligan (which we’ve been reprinting examples of recently) Frederick Opper was responsible for a number of popular strips in the early 20th century. Here’s an example of Frederick Opper’s strip And Her Name Was Maud from July 9, 1905. Click the image to read the strip.

Here are some other Opper strips from Coconino Classics.

Here are some other Opper strips at Barnacle Press.

Although he is best known today for Happy Hooligan (which we’ve been reprinting examples of recently) Frederick Opper was responsible for a number of popular strips in the early 20th century. Here’s an example of Frederick Opper’s strip And Her Name Was Maud from December 18, 1904. Click the image to read the strip.

Here are some other Opper strips from Coconino Classics.

Here are some other Opper strips at Barnacle Press.

Although he is best known today for Happy Hooligan (which we’ve been reprinting examples of recently) Frederick Opper was responsible for a number of popular strips in the early 20th century. Here’s an example of Frederick Opper’s strip And Her Name Was Maud from January 22, 1905. Click the image to read the strip.

Here are some other Opper strips from Coconino Classics.

Here are some other Opper strips at Barnacle Press.