Archive for the 'Basil Wolverton' Category
HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Wolverton’s Powerhouse Pepper : November 11th, 2008
TODAY’S FEATURED ITEM: I can’t seem to keep up these days… thus, another huge link list of comic treasure to pore over with one random featured item… can’t go wrong with Wolverton! Here’s some Powerhouse Pepper from Comicrazys.
- Firework Fear
- Bonfire Night 1934: The Joker
- More pre-war firework fun!
- Daily Mirror archive of strips – all online!
- Go, Look: A Dream To Have In Heaven
from CR Briefings
- can you dig it, Bobby?
- doing the dishes
- How much is that doggie…
- Happy Birthday, Jillmer!!
- Bobby’s back…
- the hiding place
- Robbed!
- And for no reason at all…
- TWO YEARS!!
- Boomer finds a clue!
- Boomer on the move
- return to the beginning
- ACABA DE PONERSE A LA VENTA EL COYOTE
from Viñetas
- Tales Calculated to Drive You Bats: 4
- Red Plains: Range War, part 1
- You’re In The Picture Now Monday Cartoon Day
- Standing Tall Tuesday Comic Strip Day
- Epitaph
- The Garcon / Dream!
- Obscurity of the Day: Builders of Wisconsin
from Stripper’s Guide
- Chuck Norris and the Karate Kommandos #1
- Alan Moore’s X-men
- Hen fight!
- Raoul Barré (1874 -1932)
from Punch in Canada
- More Raoul Barré
from Punch in Canada
- Number 411 See some evil, hear some evil, speak some evil
- Butch & Buttercup: The Match
from Nedor-A-Day
- Powerhouse Pepper: The Bank Book With The Blank Look – Basil Wolverton
from Comicrazys
- Canary Town
from Mattias Inks
- Bob Kuwahara’s Terrytoons Comics
- Freckles – 04/13/1945
- Freckles – 04/14/1945
- Hermann’s Comanche
from Hairy Green Eyeball
- Peter Arno
from Hairy Green Eyeball
- The American Crime
- Special Forces!
- Krazy Kat 1921-02-21
- Krazy Kat 1921-02-19
- “I’ll tell those sheep I love ‘em like brothers the rats!
from Classic Cartoons
- Obscurity of the Day: Johnny Reb and Billy Yank
from Stripper’s Guide
- 24 Hour Comic-’Toby & Sara B-Sides: Visitors’
- Krazy Kat 1921-02-16
- Krazy Kat 1921-02-15
- Number 410 Origin of Blackhawk retold
- Oswald in “The Prehistoric Egg”
from Classic Cartoons
- Sunday Funnies: The Partridge Family
- Freckles – 04/12/1945
- Feeding time
from Mattias Inks
- Jim Ivey’s Sunday Comics
from Stripper’s Guide
- Krazy Kat 1921-02-18
- Krazy Kat 1921-02-17
- And…. your out!” Sunday Leftover Day
- Freckles – 02/6/1924
- Crime Crushers: Aerial Acrobats
from Nedor-A-Day
- From the Black Terror Scrap Book
from Nedor-A-Day
- Minneapolis Jam: November 2008
from CONSPIRE!
- Nothing Happened Between Us
from Introspective Comics
- Old Comics – “Lost!”
- Steve Ditko’s Birthday!
- The origins of Watchmen
- Bomba, always the second banana
- “How Clark Kent Met Lois Lane!”
- Cheeky fun with Klaus Nordling’s LADY LUCK
- 41.6 Gross
- Goin Out Where The Voters Are Satuday Backlog Day
- The Last of The Mo/Hogans Sunday leftover Day
- Heavy Lifting Monday Cartoon Day. Harvey Kurtzman
- The Headless Horsemen
- The Haunting of Sleepy Hollow!
- Doomed
- Nightmare Island
- Laugh, Clown, Laugh!
- “The Adventures of Captain Codfish” (cont.)
- “The Adventures of Captain Codfish” (Hillman Comics)
- Jim Ivey’s Sunday Comics
from Stripper’s Guide
- from Animal Comics #9, 1944: a very early Stanley Story
from Stanley Stories
- The Gypsies Part 3
- The Gypsies Part 4
- H. A. MacGill
from Punch in Canada
- Hal Foster versus the Combines
from Punch in Canada
- Number 406 Feud on Rimfire Ridge!
- Number 407 Out of my brain on the 5:15
- Fighting Yank: The Mystery of The Wayward Waif
from Nedor-A-Day
- Black Terror: The Plundering Pooch
from Nedor-A-Day
- Sonny Wells’ Debt
from Nedor-A-Day
- the Moosatron, secret agent
from Mattias Inks
- Freckles – 01/26/1924
- Bernard Prince “The Victims”
from Hairy Green Eyeball
- Mr. Mole And The Terrebore
- Sunday Pin-Up
- Vassals Of Volta
- Jack Kirby’s Spirit World!
- The Six-Million Dollar Man
- Sunday Funnies: The Flintstones
- 100th Post! I Was a Friend Of Ol’ Marvel
- Today’s Poor Almanack
from cul de sac
- Krazy Kat 1921-01-31
- Krazy Kat 1921-01-29
- Krazy Kat 1921-02-02
- Krazy Kat 1921-02-01
- Krazy Kat 1921-02-04
- Krazy Kat 1921-02-03
- Stars of Political Cartooning – Art Young
- Tall Men Tell No Tales. Tuesday Newspaper Strip Day
- They Won Their Spurs
from Nedor-A-Day
- Little Lulu I love you-lou…
from Hairy Green Eyeball
- The Grooviest President!
- “The Stalking Death” (cont.)
- Rulah Jungle Goddess in “The Stalking Death” (Fox Comics)
- Scott’s Classic Comics Corner: Underappreciated Artist Spotlight – Pat Boyette
- “Beautia for President!”
- The Revamped Barnaby by Crockett Johnson
- The Mad Poet
- The tragic origin of Doctor Thaddeus Sivana
- Next Barnaby 48 Years Ago Today
- the slide guitar
from Mattias Inks
- “Everybody seems to be going to Viet Nam!”
- Infinite Kung Fu, part 6
- Black Terror: Larceny in the Lighthouse
from Nedor-A-Day
- Hammer of Evil
- Krazy Kat 1921-02-07
- Krazy Kat 1921-02-05
- Lobo
- Number 408 Two Dukes and Dopes
- Black and White Wednesday: Archie Goodwin & Walt Simonson’s "Temple of the Spider"
- Special One Day Only Offer Advertising Strip Day
- Bert Billings
from Punch in Canada
- Eric Gurney’s “Calculating Cats”
from Goofbutton
- Balm for Elephants
from cul de sac
- Walt Kelly’s POGO – the Classic “Earth Day” strip
- The Sandman: The Dream Hunters #1
- Tharg’s Future Shocks: The Disturbings Digestions…
- Dead Man’s Pajamas
- Krazy Kat 1921-02-09
- Krazy Kat 1921-02-08
- Tuffy: Run Alec Run!
from Nedor-A-Day
- Yeti Party
- A Brand New Day Thurday story strip day
- If You Blinked You Missed…Howard Chaykin’s Monark Starstalker!
- Obscurities of the Day: Four Features from the Chicago Defender
from Stripper’s Guide
- Freckles – 04/03/1945
- Freckles – 01/28/1924
- Freckles – 04/04/1945
- Freckles – 04/05/1945
- Freckles – 04/06/1945
- Freckles – 04/07/1945
- Freckles – 04/09/1945
- Freckles – 01/29/1924
- Freckles – 01/30/1924
- Freckles – 01/31/1924
- Freckles – 02/01/1924
- Freckles – 02/02/1924
- Really small rockets
from Mattias Inks
- That’s My Pop!: Moon Mullins #4 1948 – Milt Gross
from Comicrazys
- Krazy Kat 1921-02-11
- Krazy Kat 1921-02-10
- Stanley/Grossman Herman & Hector
from ThadBlog
- Education: How To Be A Cartoonist In 16 Easy Pages
- The Skeleton’s Revenge
- The Fighting Yank: The Crossroads of Crime
from Nedor-A-Day
- The Wildest Wild, Wild Women
from Hairy Green Eyeball
- Let This Be a Lesson
- Number 409 Murphy Anderson’s Star Pirate
- Obscurities of the Day: Two More from the Defender
from Stripper’s Guide
- Freckles – 04/10/1945
- Wally Wood draws ninety comic strip characters
- United States Tobacco Journal; October 4, 1947
- Go West, Young Harvey Friday Comic Book Day
- Freckles – 02/04/1924
- Prize Comics Western, a Rough History
- *Crack Comics #13 ~ June/1941* Crack Comics #20
- *Crack Comics #5 ~ Sept/1940* Crack Comics
- *Lou Fine* 1914 ~ 1971 *The Black Condor*
- Today’s Poor Almanack
from cul de sac
- Kill, Clown, Kill!
- Krazy Kat 1921-02-14
- Krazy Kat 1921-02-12
- A Murder of Crows
- One Dawn At The Time Saturday Leftover Day
- Freckles – 04/11/1945
- Herriman Saturday
from Stripper’s Guide
- Ravin’ Raven: Doggone Nail!
from Nedor-A-Day
- Supermouse and the Genie
from Nedor-A-Day
- Jack B. Yeats
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Waitin’ for the Robert E. Lee
from Nedor-A-Day
- more Famous frivolity: “Blackie the Lamb” from Animal Comics 13, 1945
from Stanley Stories
- Dick Hartley
from Punch in Canada
- The Gypsies Part 5
- Freckles – 02/5/1924
- “The private life of pumpkins”
from In This Corner
- Comic Adverising: R. F. Outcault
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Vote!
- Super Wilbur!
from Geeklog Site
- “The Bee-Deviled Bruin”
from Classic Cartoons
- Political Cartoons: America On The Brink of War 1916
- CAPPtivating Heroes: Jack Jawbreaker and Fearless Fosdick Fight Crime!
- Not Flattered
from Introspective Comics
- Berkeley Breathed Ends His Opus
from CR Briefings
- Something Special
from Introspective Comics
- The Donkey and the Mayor Friday comic book Day.
HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Addams, Wolverton and Godwin’s Crazy Charlie for Halloween : October 31st, 2008
TODAY’S FEATURED ITEMS:
Way too much great stuff listed below, as usual… I’m only featuring Halloween oriented items today (there are a ton more in the list below)…
What could put you more in the mood for Halloween than some Charles Addams cartoons, courtesy of Hairy Green Eyeball.
The Fortress of Fortitude presents Basil Wolverton’s They Crawl By Night! (plus some of his fantastic Plop! covers can be seen at Diversions of the Groovy Kind).
Barnacle Press brings us the complete run of H.E. Godwin’s Crazy Charlie.
Even more Halloween oriented comics can be found linked at The Comics Reporter here. and here.
- Special: Black Jack “Teratoid Cystoma”
from THE BEAT
- Vigil of the Mad!
- A Mysterious One
from Stripper’s Guide
- Halloween Plop!
- Tributes #6 and 7
- When The Night Wind Howls
from Jim Flora
- Inside The Comics Trick Or Treat Bag
from CR Briefings
- Krazy Kat 1921-01-28
- Krazy Kat 1921-01-27
- Frightening First Fridays: Tower of Shadows #1
- They Crawl By Night!
- Number 405 Vampire Valtz HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
- Stars of Political Cartooning – Jeff MacNelly
- Atlas/Seaboard’s Planet of Vampires
- Style Icon
from Mattias Inks
- “Devil Ladies” (cont.)
- It’s A Crime, Chapter 9, Not The Same
- The Blood Money of Galloping Chad Burgess
from Nedor-A-Day
- Grip on Life
from Nedor-A-Day
- The Beast Within
from Nedor-A-Day
- Freckles – 04/02/1945
- Happy Halloween from Chas Addams
from Hairy Green Eyeball
- Rulah Jungle Goddess in “Devil Ladies” (Fox Comics)
- Now That’s Hot Stuff!
- Is This Stanley’s Work? The Little King, from Four Color 494, 1953
from Stanley Stories
- Johnny Cavalier: “LARD”
from Freshman for Life
- Out of the Black Night
- Witch of Death (+CONTEST!)
- oh, gee
from panpipes
- GOBLIN
from panpipes
- pee-jello-o soggy aura (shigeru sugiura)
from panpipes
- Chappy Cat, Blolly Lamb
from panpipes
- Almost
- New Strip! Crazy Charlie!
from The Barnacle Blog
- House of Mystery #194
- Happy Halloween
- Some Halloween Voodoo
- Outfoxed. Tuesday Early Leftovers.
- Freckles – 01/25/1924
- Tribute #5
- Webcomics update for 10/24/08
from FLOG! Entries
- 10th Anniversary & Tribute #1
- men vs. dragons
from Jim Flora
- The Great Freight Cartel
from Jim Flora
- Clippings
from BibliOdyssey
- Comics in My Pants.
from PCL LinkDump
- Calamity Coach: 13 Reasons Not to Travel
- Mel Crawford’s Secret Color Sense
from John K Stuff
- loan shark
from Jim Flora
- CLOUD-PLEX
- Maybe Mubbey Maaybee, Babeeey???
- Keith Knight cartoon causes kerfuffle in Jersey
from THE BEAT
- Freckles – 01/23/1924
- George Emmett’s Comic Part 2
from Yesterday’s Papers
- George Emmett’s Comic Annual 1877
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Peanuts and X-Files. Epic win?
- Little-seen Frank Frazetta art – Smoking Surfers
- *The Haunt of Fear* 28 issues ~ #16 (#1 – May-June/1950)
- Drag-Ula! & Count Varicose
- Pages of Death
- Krazy Kat 1921-01-22
- Black Terror: The Revenge of Red Ann
from Nedor-A-Day
- Krazy Kat 1921-01-24
- Wardrobe Of Monsters
- Stars of Political Cartooning – Boardman Robinson
- Number 404 Mr. Green and Tubby’s ghost
- Love Puppets #2, part 4
- “Peanuts the Monkey” (cont.)
- “Peanuts the Monkey” (Hillman Comics; 1944)
- Black and White Wednesday: “Wooden Cross” from Creepy #38
- Monster Party
from Hairy Green Eyeball
- Freckles – 03/30/1945
- Obscurity of the Day: Hubert
from Stripper’s Guide
- Sketchblog school
from Mattias Inks
- La puce, le chien et la caméra
from Töpfferiana
- The Best A Man Can Get Wednesday advertising strip
- The Recluse
from Nedor-A-Day
- Freckles – 01/24/1924
- Poe and the Duck
from cul de sac
- Frazetta Reference
- The Witch in the Woods
- The Thing That Lived Again!
- Henry Hawk in the Pumpkin Patch
- The Swamp Creature
- Krazy Kat 1921-01-26
- Krazy Kat 1921-01-25
- Three Scary Stories
from cul de sac
- Your Sins Will Be as White as Snow
- Stars of Political Cartooning – Clifford “CK” Berryman
- Doorway to death
from Hairy Green Eyeball
- Obscurity of the Day: The Clownies
from Stripper’s Guide
- Man, What a Great Page
- Freckles – 03/31/1945
- Fall competition
from In This Corner
- Go, Look: New Copper
from CR Briefings
- Pet Goth
from The Hotel Fred
- The Twit Walks Among You
from The Hotel Fred
- An unsuiteble format for blogging
from Mattias Inks
HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Kurtzman, Kelly, Wolverton, Brown, Jane and much more : September 24th, 2008
Another heap of fun comics reading…
I’m happy to report a lot of blogs seem to be having a Harvey Kurtzman binge right now… I’m rereading Kurtzman’s Jungle Book right now, myself. Kurtzman’s notoriety comes primarily from being the inventor of Mad Magazine, and he is usually very funny. Although he worked with a lot of other artists, writing for their drawings (most notably Will Elder), I like Kurtzman best when he is drawing himself. He is one of the most expressive cartoonists of all time…
Those Fabuleous Fifties brings us some rare Kurtzman strips from Madison Avenue Magazine…
And some from Esquire…
Comicrazys brings us a Kurtzman pre-Mad funny animal comic called Pigtales from 1946…
And John K gives us a nice appreciation of Kurtzman…
John Adcock at Yesterday’s Papers brings us a number of examples of the notoriously racy WWII comic strip Jane by Norman Pett… Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
The official Pogo Possum website is serializing the Pogo paperback Go Fizzickle Pogo…
Potrzebie points us to Basil Wolverton art galore his days working at the religious magazine The Plain Truth… a huge archive of many of Plain Truth founder Herbert W. Armstrong’s numerous publications online, which are often fantastically illustrated by Wolverton. Among many other publications, the archive includes most or all issues of the Plain Truth, where Wolverton’s amazing Bible Story was originally serialized… the versions in the magazine (and in alternate publishings of the book versions of The Bible Story) contain different material, so I imagine there is a whole lot of stuff in here that was never reprinted in book form. It is a lot of crap to wade through, but there is a real treasure trove here. The below image was pulled from a random one of the hundreds of issues on the site.
Last but far from least, Walrus Magazine points us to a new Chester Brown tale from the Yummy Fur universe called Zombies Take Toronto… the image quality sucks, but it is a great read.
Note that the esteemed Mr. Brown is currently running for office, which, regardless of what you think of his politics, is a tragic waste of his enormous cartooning talents. The early issues of Yummy Fur (the recently reprinted in pamphlet form Ed the Happy Clown saga… which hopefully will soon be a book, considering some previous book versions of it are going for over 200 bucks on Amazon) are some of the most wonderfully surreal and creepy comics ever made.
Note also that the final installment of the Zombies strip also reveals that there is a Yummy Fur movie in the works to be directed by Bruce MacDonald… hopefully this means Mr. Brown will be deeply involved in its translation to the screen. Adapting Yummy Fur to the screen and getting distribution should be quite challenging, I imagine… it will, of course, have to be xxx to be a good adaptation, considering all the miserable penises with starring roles in the comic.
A lot more great stuff below…
- The Walrus Blogs » Chester Brown’s Zombie Romance…
from walrusmagazine.com
- The most random panel in comic book history.
from Mightygodking.com
- You’re Going Sadly Unrecognized In Certain Quarters, Charlie Brown
from Mightygodking.com
- Freckles – 02/17/1945
- Spidey Super Stories #11: “The Show-Stopper Strikes!”
- Hayseeds by Harry Hargreaves
- Firehair
- Number 384 Zakka’s Debt
- Who put the Mad in Madison?
- Obscurity of the Day: Batman
from Stripper’s Guide
- VIP’s Wild, Wild Women
from Hairy Green Eyeball
- Go, Look: The Attack Of The Flowerman By Jeremy Eaton (from 1975)
from CR Briefings
- The Story of Jane III
from Yesterday’s Papers
- FALL!
from cul de sac
- Les Callan
from Punch in Canada
- FOLIAGE!
from cul de sac
- Little Nemo 1913-08-10
- Jeff Hawke by Sydney Jordan
- Lance by Warren Tufts
- Dennis the Menace gets what he deserves.
- Beehive Bedlam: Woody Woodpecker #59
- Kitchen Sink
- The Space Lorelei
from Nedor-A-Day
- It Floats in Space / Unharmed
- Blowing Up
from Introspective Comics
- Comic Interlude.
from FLOG! Entries
- I love Coogy’s Tuesday Newspaper Strip Day.
- BEFORE THE AFTERTHOUGHT
from The Woodring Monitor
- The Story of Jane II
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Freckles – 02/16/1945
- “An unexpected legacy”
from THE BEAT
- Alex Toth Gallery
- G.O. Fizzickle Pogo
from pogopossum.com
- Wood Chips 4
from Potrzebie
- Bill O’Malley cartoons from Extension Magazine (1946-47)
- Kurtzman Bonanza
from John K Stuff
- Weekend wonders : Fearless Fosdick
from The Ephemerist
- Weekend Wonders : Winchester !
from The Ephemerist
- Fall indeed
from The Ephemerist
- each fallen robin
- My First Rejected Comic Strip Gag
from CR Briefings
- The Story of Jane II
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Go, Read: The Japanese Ratty Line
from CR Briefings
- Missed It: The History Of Doug
from CR Briefings
- Flat-Top in “Sno Foolin” (Harvey Comics)
- Little Nemo 1913-08-03
- Infinite Kung Fu, part 4
- Don’t Kill Me Twice!
- Pigtales: Krazy Komics #25 1946 – Harvey Kurtzman
from Comicrazys
- “The Vicar’s not pulling his weight!”
from Bear Alley
- Death Over Washington
- Mod Squad
from Hairy Green Eyeball
- News of Yore: Hershfeld Plays Second Fiddle to his Creation
from Stripper’s Guide
- Quick Draw McGraw: Big Golden Book 1961
from Comicrazys
- The Story of Jane I
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Fearless Fosdick (Courtesy of THOIA)
- More Kurtzmania Monday cartoon Day
- Examining the Weird Bizarro World of Mr. and Mrs. J. Evil Scientist
- Re-Run: Life With Snarky Parker, No. 1
from Geeklog Site
- Freckles – 02/15/1945
- Kyle Baker Mutant Extravaganza part 2!
- Obscurity of the Day: Phil
from Stripper’s Guide
- Inspiration.
from FLOG! Entries
- How I Had (and Lost) a Pet Dinosaur
- Sappo of Saturn in “The Beauty Contest”
from Nedor-A-Day
- The Cosmic Terror
from Nedor-A-Day
- Sunday Pin-Up
- Spooks- the Spencer Years Sunday leftover day.
- Number 382 I took eight bullets out of him
- Jack Davis goes on record…
from Hairy Green Eyeball
- Jim Ivey’s Sunday Comics
from Stripper’s Guide
- Freckles – 02/14/1945
- A post of convenience: “Andy Panda,” from “New Funnies” #125
from Stanley Stories
- Canuck Cartoonists at War
from Punch in Canada
- Au Revoir from Jane!
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Alex Toth Gallery
- Space Mouse: Walter Lantz
- Toddler’s Roundtable
from cul de sac
- The Undertaker
- The Fighting Yank: The Precarious Life of a Miner
from Nedor-A-Day
- Little Nemo 1913-07-27
- Number 383 Pepe y Pepito Paul Murry
- My husband keeps telling me to go to hell…Part 2
from Hairy Green Eyeball
- J. Campbell Cory not at Work
from Yesterday’s Papers
- What Just Happened?
from Introspective Comics
- St. Paul Cartoonist Conspiracy Jam Comic – September 2008
from CONSPIRE!
- Kanary Kid sneak peek!
- Freckles – 02/06/1945
- Freckles – 02/07/1945
- Freckles – 02/08/1945
- Freckles – 02/09/1945
- Freckles – 02/10/1945
- Freckles – 02/12/1945
- The Bravest Niño #2, part 2
- Little Nemo 1913-07-13
- Best of the Best!
- The Monster and the Statue
- Captain Future Vs. The Black Dragon Society
from Nedor-A-Day
- Some more Spector Speculation Saturday Leftover Day
- Herriman Saturday
from Stripper’s Guide
- Freckles – 02/13/1945
- Fontanelle, the Imperiled Infant
from cul de sac
- Little Nemo 1913-07-20
- Sir Bagby’s Dragon
- “Jimmy Olsen, Editor-In-Chief!”
- Do you think Uncle Walt used to sample Welsh Rarebit or what?
- Jack Davis’ Beauregard!
from Potrzebie
- Hour of the Wolverton
from Potrzebie
- Gahan Wilson’s Diner (1992)
from Potrzebie
HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Doo Dads, Katzies, Beanworld and so much more! : September 4th, 2008
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
- Nå†iønål Låmpøøn Strips [Re-Post, By Request]
from datajunkie
- Go, Look: Christophe Blain
from CR Briefings
- Speaking of Strips, How about Animal Crackers?
- Go, Look: Manu Larcenet
from CR Briefings
- Cartoonists’ Exchange
from Mike Lynch Cartoons
- Errand Service
- 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!
- 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
- Ten Lesser-Known Works by Major Creators from Barnacle Press
from The Barnacle Blog
- A Visit To A Lost Love
- Eleven Daily Katzies 1917
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Little Nemo 1913-03-24
- Night of Horror
- The Invaders
from Nedor-A-Day
- Ghost Train Of Golden Gorge
- “I’m Autumn, and I approve this message.”
from In This Corner
- Here’s a Perishers Sample
- Ronald Searle cover collection
- What Everett True would do to the Kaiser
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Grapenut Flakes Post Wednesday Advertising Day.
- Ten Must-Read Classics from Barnacle Press
from The Barnacle Blog
- Captain Gallant and His Mini-Sub (cont.)
- Captain Gallant and His Mini-Sub
- 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
- Calvin’s Dad: Greatest Hits, Volume 2
- Little Nemo 1913-03-06
- The All-American Art, Cartooning
from Hairy Green Eyeball
- Death Thumbs a Ride
- The American Eagle: The Coiled Treachery of Nippon
from Nedor-A-Day
- The Map Of Doom
- Number 372 Lance O’Casey’s magic lamp
- Obscurity of the Day: The Ambassador
from Stripper’s Guide
- Freckles – 01/24/1945
- Doo Dad Sundays IV
from Punch in Canada
- Don’t Want This
from Introspective Comics
- Gone Fishin’ + Halftone How-To
from Zettwoch’s Suitcase
HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Condo! Wolverton! The Vagabond! : August 22nd, 2008
So much good stuff…
Our friends at Barnacle Press continue to post amazing stuff… today they posted a bunch of examples of Oscar und Adolf by Everett True cartoonist A.D. Condo, as well as a weird out-of-character (that is to say non-violent) appearance by Mr. True in Alley Oop from 1969! Click the image to go there. Recently they also posted scans of the gorgeous strip Madge the Magician’s Daughter which I forgot to highlight.
The Horrors of It All brings us Basil Wolverton’s classic Gateway to Horror.

And last and certainly least, Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine brings us The Vagabond…

- Routine
- Jeanie therapy Thursday story day.
- Little Nemo 1912-11-24
- Cave Man Kenny: The Second Lesson
from Nedor-A-Day
- Oinkie: What Happens to Big Pigs?
from Nedor-A-Day
- Gateway to Horror
- His Honor … And The Demon
- Number 365 Bizarre back-ups
- Midnight Tale of Wayne Howard
from Hairy Green Eyeball
- It’s A Crime, Chapter 5, Making a Commitment
- Lullaby Land – the book
- *Part 2 of* Airboy and the Rats *from* *Airboy Comics
- *The legendary 2-part story* *Airboy and the Rats!*
- Waiting It Out
from Drawn and Quarterly
- C. E. Toles and Toronto Saturday Night
- New Strip! Osgar Und Adolf!
from The Barnacle Blog
- Rusting medusa
from Mattias Inks
- “I’m watching this new reality show . . .”
from In This Corner
- Billy West: The Gold of Thunder Mountain
from Nedor-A-Day
HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Basil Wolverton’s Culture Corner : August 19th, 2008
Today the Fortress of Fortitude brings us some Basil Wolverton Culture Corner strips… click the image to go there and get yourself some culture.
- Esther Pearl Watson: Beauty U.S.A.
from FLOG! Entries
- OTBP: The Art of Alex Nino
from CR Briefings
- Bear Creek by Hope Larson and Bryan Lee O’Malley
from Mike Lynch Cartoons
- The Browne and Walker Show Tuesday comic strip day
- Little Nemo 1912-10-20
- COMICS WITH PROBLEMS No. 28 – Homosexuality – Legitimate Alternate DEATHSTYLE
- I Saw the Vampire!
- Fearless Fosdick dances with death!
from Hairy Green Eyeball
- The Man-Ape
- *Frank Frazetta* *the western covers*
- Gilbert: Collared
from Nedor-A-Day
- “Great Ant Circus!”
- Obscurity of the Day: Our Neighbors
from Stripper’s Guide
- The Perfect Ketch Monday cartoon day. Hank Ketcham
- William Heath Robinson 1872 ~ 1944
- Kliban Kliff
from Goofbutton
- 24 Hour Comics Day — Minneapolis 2008
from Big Time Attic
- Rugg/Maruca fashion
from THE BEAT
- 24-hour Comics Day poster for 2008
from 24-Hour Comic Day
- Baby Huey
- Go, Look: T. Edward Bak In Alaska
from CR Briefings
- Go, Look: William Steig Ad Work
from CR Briefings
- Sketchbook 03.08-05.08
from the monologuist
- “Plazma Peril” (cont.)
- Rulah Jungle Goddess in “Plazma Peril”
- Art Fanciers, Rich People, The Cultured=Idiots
from Stanley Stories
- Special olympics. Friday comic book day.
- The Giant from the Tomb
- Little Nemo 1912-09-29
- Jacques Le Flaguais (1921-1986)
from Punch in Canada
- Miss Masque in the Society Swindle Case
from Nedor-A-Day
- Nickel Library
from Hairy Green Eyeball
- Herriman Saturday
from Stripper’s Guide
- Gold Key “Virtual” Spinner Rack
from datajunkie
- King Kent Saturday leftover day.
- Little Nemo 1912-10-06
- The Unorthodox Ox (WDCS 182)
- Culture Club
- Albert Chartier (1912-2004)
from Punch in Canada
- Postmark: Graveyard
- Little Nemo 1912-10-13
- The return of Fuller Bunk!
from The Barnacle Blog
- Dat Ole Black Magic….
from datajunkie
- Aw…. What The Hell – Here’s More KIRBY!
from datajunkie
- One More Beach Cartoon
from cul de sac
- A thoughtful moment with Pogo
- The Case of the Beckoning Mummy
- The Ghost Strikes Again
from Nedor-A-Day
- Remembering Elvis
from cul de sac
- Number 363 Airboy and the battle of the magicians
- Obscurity of the Day: Dick Clark’s Rock, Roll and Remember
from Stripper’s Guide
- Maybe, Maybe, Maybe…
from Introspective Comics
- Flip and Flopper: You Are What You Think You Are
from Nedor-A-Day
- Number 362 My favorite Ditko
- Ketcham Sketcham. Sunday leftovers.
- Jim Ivey’s Sunday Comics
from Stripper’s Guide
- Ouija Wonders
from BizarroBlog
- *Fred Guardineer’s* *The Blue Tracer*
- Dang! #1
- Chicago.
- Go, Read: Mike Sterling’s Things Not To Say To A Comic Book Shop Employee
from CR Briefings
- ‘Campfire of Terror’ Sneak Peek
- Bless Jeanie Thursday story day.
- Woody Woodpecker: Whitman Tell-A-Tale 1951 – Walter Lantz Studio
from Comicrazys
- No Law, No Order
from Nedor-A-Day
- Revenge of Professor Zarno!
- Little Nemo 1912-09-22
- This Town Is A Ghost Town
- Number 361 Dudley is no dud Boody Rogers
- The Fighting Yank: The Radotron
from Nedor-A-Day
- Historical Treasures
- Gandy Goose in Picnic Problems (Terrytoons 69)
- Wrong for the Congs
from Hairy Green Eyeball
- from “Raggedy Ann & Andy” #38, 1949
from Stanley Stories
- Afternoon Mystery
from James_Lileks’s blog
- Ultra, The Multi Alien
from datajunkie
HEY! KIDS! COMICS!: Basil Wolverton’s ROBOT WOMAN: June 11th, 2008
Here’s a new category for this website… “HEY! KIDS! COMICS!” will be a secondary “link list” feature only visually juicy comics links from around the internets, with an image of a featured item at the top (conveniently linked from the image). A doozy is featured today… the great Basil Wolverton’s Robot Woman, courtesy of The Fortress of Fortitude.
- The Runaway Lamb 1
- Sketchbook #56
from FLOG! Entries
- Frank King’s 1960 Xmas Card
from FLOG! Entries
- Sketchbook #55
from FLOG! Entries
- Frank King’s 1961 Xmas Card
from FLOG! Entries
- Illustration: Artzybasheff’s Diablerie
- Dixie Dugan
- Beauty And The Beast
- All’s Fair?
- The Fighting Yank vs. The Gremlin
from Nedor-A-Day
- Orgy of Death
- *Number 322* * How deep is death?
- Obscurity of the Day: The Wish Twins and Aladdin’s Lamp
from Stripper’s Guide
Interesting Links: The Horrors of it All
The Horrors of it All blog has been posting a ton of fantastic pre-code horror comics, and they just posted one of my all-time favorites, The Brain Bats of Venus by the one and only Basil Wolverton. Boy, a brain bat would make a great Halloween costume… if anyone out there wants to attempt this, please send photos. Click the below image to go read the story!
No commentsObscure Images: Early Wolverton Original and Herriman Cigarette Buttons
Did you already buy that Milt Gross painting? No? Well, you could take that 600 bucks burning a hole in your pocket and bid on original art for this early, obscure Basil Wolverton strip instead.

What’s that? You don’t have $600? Well, I suppose you could bid on these two George Herriman cigarette pins made for Hassan and Tokio cigarettes in 1909 going for $16.50 and $12.50 respectively.


OK, I’ll stop now.
1 commentObscure Images: The Fantastic Basil Wolverton
Most good cartoonists do at least one thing really well… Basil Wolverton did a whole lot of things better than about anybody. He was the master in his time of hilarious, crazy, surreal, cartoony art (indeed, he is the father of the “spaghetti and meatball” school of cartooning). He was also fantastic at caricature, science fiction comics and horror comics. He even did amazing bible adaptations. Here is some of the great obscure Wolverton art from comicartfans.com. I recommend clicking on them to see larger versions on the comicartfans.com site. Note that there is more Wolverton to be found there as well if you do a search for him.
I think these are the only Wolverton pencils I’ve ever seen… some preliminary drawings for some Spacehawk comics.

In addition to his insane cartooning talents, the man was also a charming musician… go here to hear his wonderful rendition of I’m Always Chasing Rainbows.
There are some excellent reprints of his work out there, and more to come soon, including a big art book and a collection of his bible work! Those should both be spectacular, I think.
Go here to visit the Wolverton family site run by his son Monte (who is also a cartoonist).
Go here to read about Basil Wolverton on lambiek.net.
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