Another spooky cartoon to get you in the mood for Halloween… I love the abrupt ending of this one. If you want more spookiness, check out my ongoing list of spooky cartoons.

Read more about this cartoon on The Big Cartoon Database.

This cartoon, along with almost all of Ub Iwerks cartoons made for his own studio, are available on the excellent DVDs The Cartoons that time Forgot Volume One and Volume Two. This cartoon is on Volume 2.

TODAY’S FEATURED ITEMS:

Too many great items to feature them all this time around… here are some of the highlights…

The ASIFA Hollywood Animation Archive gives us some wonderful examples of (the only cartoonist listed in the dictionary) Rube Goldberg’s Side Show sunday strips, a great hodge-podge of interesting and funny features that was the home for his famous Inventions. Click the above image to go there.

My friend Kevin Cannon brings us the first seven pages of his wonderful new Sloth Force Seven minicomic which I got at FallCon this weekend. Click the above image to view it.

Another marvelous and particularly funny Jim Woodring image. Click the image above to go look at it.

Comicrazys gives us more of the extremely obscure Flip the Frog Annual series. Click the image… you know the routine by now, don’t you?

Here is the Minneapolis Cartoonist Conspiracy Jam from October 2008 that I participated in as usual. Note that anyone can participate… just show up the first Thursday of the month at Diamond’s Coffee Shoppe in Minneapolis with pen in hand. Click the image to download the fairly large pdf (thanks to Kevin Cannon for scanning and posting these!)

Mattias has been on a roll producing amazing illustrations of fantastic buildings… he just completed a series of five particularly fanciful "vehicle" buildings.. Click… image…

More rare Harvey Kurtzman from Those Fabuleous Fifties! Click the above image to go there.

• The Blue Kid’s Hicky Wicky Adventure, part 2
  from Top Shelf 2.0 Webcomics
• Saturday’s Almanack
  from cul de sac
• King of the Cowboys – Wild Horse Bob Crosby
  from Nedor-A-Day
• The Haunted Hunchback
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Superboy #90 (1961)
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Lady of the Black Flag
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Little Nemo 1913-11-23
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Supermans Pal Jimmy Olsen #52 (1961)
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Number 392 Super Mighty Mice
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Mjammie Wednesday Advertising Day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Commercial Liner
  from Mattias Inks
• Time to Cool Off
  from Introspective Comics
• Matthew Kriske’s “Magic Carp” Debuts
  from Big Time Attic
• The English Comic Strip
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Une mèche de vos cheveux, Maëstro!
  from Töpfferiana
• The Head Man
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Douglas and Duncan: Disturbin’ the Peace
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Batman #52 (1949)
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• the Gorgon
  from Mattias Inks
• More All-American Art
  from Hairy Green Eyeball
• Selling a soul
  from Hairy Green Eyeball
• The Old Man And The Satire Tuesday Newspaper Strip
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Pre-Halloween warmup!
  from datajunkie
• Freckles – 03/05/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Tumbleweeds by T.K. Ryan
  from Beautiful Balloons with Maggie Thompson
• Madinkbeard – 150 panels of Concrete
  from madinkbeard.com
• Daily archive Additions – 10/2/08
  from I Love Comix
• Little Nemo 1913-10-26
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Little Nemo 1913-11-02
  from Comic Strip Library News
• The Amulet of Terror
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• “You cartoonists are always gagging it up!”
  from Hairy Green Eyeball
• Freckles – 03/01/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Aim practise
  from Mattias Inks
• Big Bad Week- Act VII
  from Classic Cartoons
• Barks and Hannah’s ‘Madam XX’
  from ThadBlog
• Dan Williams: Private Investigator in the Forbes Case
  from Nedor-A-Day
• SF 4 Me…SEE!
  from datajunkie
• from Nancy #165, 1959: the evil of Rollo Haveall
  from Stanley Stories
• King Aroo Sunday Comic Strip By Jack Kent
  from Cartoon SNAP
• Freckles – 03/03/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Bugs Bunny’s Halloween Trick ‘N’ Treat, #4
  from Uncle Ernie’s Creature Ink
• Grant Morrison’s Dr. Who?
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Bay of Gigs Monday Cartoon Day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Young, Dora and Brummelisa
  from Sekvenskonst
• Daily archive Additions – 10/05/08
  from I Love Comix
• Love Puppets #2, part 1
  from Top Shelf 2.0 Webcomics
• The origin of Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Little Nemo 1913-11-09
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Preview video/slideshow: Popeye Vol. 3
  from FLOG! Entries
• Minneapolis Jam: October 2008
  from CONSPIRE!
• Horror Holds the Reins
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• A Little Piece of Paper!
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Number 390 Dunc and Loo come through I found Dunc and Loo
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Superboy #16 (1951)
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Play songs of love
  from Mattias Inks
• Freckles – 03/02/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Flip The Frog Annual: Ruemance 1931
  from Comicrazys
• Woody Woodpecker, from “New Funnies” #108, 1946
  from Stanley Stories
• “Jimmy’s Forgotten Girl Friend!”
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• The Terrible Tourist (WDCS 248)
  from Rodney Bowcock’s Comics & Stories
• Supermans Pal Jimmy Olsen #44 (1960)
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Halloween Item – Heroin Abuse in Shock and Suspense
  from Ethan Persoff
• Miss Masque: Ring of Death
  from Nedor-A-Day
• The Wolpire
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Number 391 The scourge of Atlantis Dick Ayers
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• s/s Teracotta
  from Mattias Inks
• Devil You Know
  from Monster Without A Cause
• Vintage Comics: Läderlappen
  from Martin Klasch
• DON’T WAIT UP, MOTHER
  from The Woodring Monitor
• Guest Strip: Will Dinski, Jesse Reklaw
  from The Daily Cross Hatch
• “Some to-do lists”
  from In This Corner
• Sloth Force Seven: “Time Travel”
  from Big Time Attic
• * Military comics #16 ~ Feb/1943*
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• Big Bad Week- Act VI
  from Classic Cartoons
• Burning Building Comix #1-#3
  from Top Shelf 2.0 Webcomics
• *Reed Crandall’s* Blackhawk Crandall’s *first* stint
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• More Mother Goose
  from Sekvenskonst
• Queen Victoria’s Parrot
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• *an extra added story by the great* *Reed Crandall*
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• * Military Comics #17 ~ March/1943*
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• Freckles – 02/28/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Inspired Woman
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Comic Strips: Rube Goldberg’s Side Show
  from ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive
• Heavy Metal Heart, part 3
  from Top Shelf 2.0 Webcomics
• Cubby
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Help Us to Die!
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Dodger de Squoil in Up a Tree
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Little Nemo 1913-10-19
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Cadava The Crumbler
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Number 389 Man in the macabre mirror
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• the Cord, in color
  from Mattias Inks
• The Captain Aero Connections
  from Simon and Kirby – Jack Kirby Museum & Research
• Jeaniology Thursday story strip day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Big Bad Week- Act V
  from Classic Cartoons
• Once Again, I’m The King Of Ooops!
  from datajunkie
• Rag, Tag and Bobtail
  from BibliOdyssey
• the Cord
  from Mattias Inks
• Abandoned Cars online
  from FLOG! Entries
• Grandfather’s Picture-Books
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Cruikshank’s Comic Strips
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Little Nemo 1913-10-12
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Defense of the West Gate
  from Top Shelf 2.0 Webcomics
• The Fighting Yank on Slavers Island
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Pool of the Skeletons
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Daily archive Additions – 10/1/08
  from I Love Comix
• Imitation is the sincerest form…
  from Hairy Green Eyeball
• TV-chair
  from Mattias Inks
• Freckles – 02/27/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• The secret code: Six letters, starts with ‘B-A-T’
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Meanwhile, in Indie land…
  from THE BEAT
• Flash Gordon
  from Sean Phillips
• Flash Gordon
  from Sean Phillips
• He’ll Save With A Mighty Hand
  from CR Briefings
• Keep Your Eyes Peeled For This Nice Piece of Recently-Stolen Seth Art
  from CR Briefings
• Billions to Sneeze At
  from ThadBlog
• Faces
  from cul de sac
• Little Nemo 1913-10-05
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Fred Basset by Alex Graham
  from Beautiful Balloons with Maggie Thompson
• Not Much
  from Mark Kausler’s CatBlog
• Superboy #33 (1954)
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• The Big Snake
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Colonel Punchy Penguin: Ice Salesman
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Ship Of Evil
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Unspent Love #4
  from Top Shelf 2.0 Webcomics
• Number 388 Give Doll Man a great big hand!
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Merchant vessel
  from Mattias Inks
• Freckles – 02/26/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Mad Man Wednesday Advertising Day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Big Bad Week- Act IV
  from Classic Cartoons
• The Truth
  from Introspective Comics
• Twice daily Chester Brown post
  from Drawn and Quarterly
• Big Bad Week- Act III
  from Classic Cartoons
• The Horror Art Of Dick Ayers!
  from datajunkie
• Vote Bear
  from Boing Boing
• Smokey The Pectoral Bear Raises Your Children Right
  from John K Stuff
• Séquence initiale töpfferienne
  from Töpfferiana
• Freckles – 02/24/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Le nez dedans (1) : C’est dans le nez que ça le chatouille
  from Töpfferiana
• La puce, le chien et le(s) maître(s)
  from Töpfferiana
• Haunt from the Sea (CONTEST)
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Saturday’s Almanack
  from cul de sac
• The Fighting Yank: Lo, the Poor Indian
  from Nedor-A-Day
• The Bravest Niño #2, part 3
  from Top Shelf 2.0 Webcomics
• Sick x 3
  from Hairy Green Eyeball
• Packed
  from Mattias Inks
• Secrets of the Batcave, 1968
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Coogy Arf Tuesday newspaper strip Day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Odd Bodkins by Dan O’Neill
  from Beautiful Balloons with Maggie Thompson
• Little Nemo 1913-09-28
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Golden Age Dickery – Volton
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2

Summertime is one of the weaker Ub Iwerks ComiColor cartoons, in my opinion, but it features the return of Old Man Winter, who was in the cartoon Jack Frost that I posted the other day. It was definitely influenced by the Disney series of season-based Silly Symphonies… because Iwerks directed Springtime (1929) Summer (1930), and Autumn (1930) for them. It also features a very racy scene for the time of silhouettes of trees turning into silhouettes of rotoscoped dancing ladies. In spite of some very good moments, this cartoon is greatly weakened by having only one design for a centaur, and reusing the animation of him relentlessly.

Read more about this cartoon on The Big Cartoon Database.

This cartoon, along with almost all of Ub Iwerks cartoons made for his own studio, are available on the excellent DVDs The Cartoons that time Forgot Volume One and Volume Two. This cartoon is on Volume 1.

Another great Ub Iwerks ComiColor cartoon, featuring the Big Bad Wolf… this comes three years after the immensely popular Disney Silly Symphony version of the Three Little Pigs, which had also spawned a number of sequels, including one also titled The Big Bad Wolf. This Wolf would seem to be pretty influenced by the Disney one. I would guess that is likely to be why the original title of this appears to have been Little Boy Blue, even though Little Boy Blue is a fairly minor character in this cartoon. This cartoon really stars the Big Bad Wolf and the Scarecrow featured in the cartoon Jack Frost which I posted the other day.

Read more about this cartoon on The Big Cartoon Database.

This cartoon, along with almost all of Ub Iwerks cartoons for his own studio, are available on the excellent DVDs The Cartoons that time Forgot Volume One and Volume Two. This cartoon is on Volume 1.

A great ComiColor cartoon from Ub Iwerks… my daughter Esther’s newest favorite. It has a fun soundtrack too… note the scarecrow Cab Calloway tribute, presumably influenced by the Fleischer Betty Boop cartoons Snow White (1933) and Minnie the Moocher (1932)… the scarecrow even appears to be rotoscoped a bit, I suspect. The soundtrack is by the one and only Carl Stalling… he really got around in the 30’s. I’ve extracted the soundtrack as an mp3 which you can download here. Right time of year for this one too, as the leaves begin to turn…

UPDATE: I forgot to mention that this cartoon appears to feature the same bear family that is ruthlessly abused a year later in the previously mentioned cartoon The Three Bears.

Read more about this cartoon on The Big Cartoon Database.

This cartoon, along with almost all of Ub Iwerks cartoons for his own studio, are available on the excellent DVDs The Cartoons that time Forgot Volume One and Volume Two. Jack Frost is on Volume 2.

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
• [image: tel est pris][image: bourrique][image: prudence]…
  from Agence eureka
• [image: dev st nicolas 2][image: dev clairlune 2]…
  from Agence eureka
• [image: intrepide n489][image: rayon s 1][image: rayon...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: n425 intrepide][image: n425 intrepideverso][image:...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: riches] [image: lemaitre] (l’intrépide 1958)
  from Agence eureka
• [image: cartes lot] [image: cartesbetes][image: cartes...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: 7 familles boite] [image: 7f lavinasse 4]…
  from Agence eureka
• [image: chasses bizarres 1] [image: chasses bizarres...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: barbizet 1] [image: barbizet 2] [image: barbizet...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: dev juif errrant] [image: dev juif errrant2]…
  from Agence eureka
• [image: saint nicolas 1] [image: saint nicolas 2]…
  from Agence eureka
• [image: mond renvers 1] [image: mond renvers 2] [image:...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: paulix] “Paulix”bd (1948)
  from Agence eureka
• [image: un cadeau encombrant] [image: cadeau encombrant...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: systeme cocasson] [image: systeme cocasson...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: img632] [image: img633] [image: img634] [image:...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: img631] [image: img635] [image: img638] Parlons…
  from Agence eureka
• [image: aviation 9] [image: aviation 10] [image: aviation...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: roncevaux 7] [image: roncevaux 8] [image:...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: mousse 1] [image: mousse 2] [image: mousse...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: Bonne année] Bonne et Heureuse Année 2008…
  from Agence eureka
• [image: roncevaux 13] [image: roncevaux 14] [image:...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: parlons d'aviation 12] [image: parlons d'aviation...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: parlons aviation 15] [image: parlons aviation...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: pilotes des sables 1] [image: pilotes des...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: pilotes des sables 4] [image: pilotes des...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: v n198] [image: v bd1] [image: v bd2] “V”…
  from Agence eureka
• [image: un spahi 14] [image: un spahi 15] [image:...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: laouic3] [image: laouic4] [image: laouic5]…
  from Agence eureka
• [image: marine 4] [image: marine 5] [image: marine...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: laouic 11] [image: laouic 12] [image: laouic...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: spahi 22] [image: spahi 23] [image: spahi...
  from Agence eureka
• animaux humoristiques
  from Agence eureka
• [image: dev02] [image: dev 03] [image: dev 01] Devinettes
  from Agence eureka
• [image: bonheur simple] chats (1937)
  from Agence eureka
• Tweety is a GIRL…
  from This Blog’s A Load Of CARTOONS!
• Ephemera: Vintage Greeting Cards part 2
  from Martin Klasch
• Ephemera: Funny Bones Calendar
  from Martin Klasch
• The Katzies are Coming !
  from Yesterday’s Papers Archive
• Lady of color. Thursday story Day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Ten Particularly Odd Comic Strips from Barnacle Press
  from The Barnacle Blog

So much great stuff… way too much to look at. I take a couple weeks off from this stuff, and the length of this thing just gets ugly. I don’t know what to feature today… Wolverton obscurities? Fox & Crow comics? More Herriman? Walt Kelly? Arch Dale? I’d feature the Chris Ware link the Comics Reporter pointed me to, but the resolution is terrible.

How about a Flip the Frog comic? Flip the Frog? He had comics? I guess he did… presented courtesy of Comicrazys, click the image below to see it.

But then there’s the ASIFA – Hollywood Animation Archive, doing amazing work as usual. Not only do they deliver the goods, but they do it with big, gorgeous scans. Some choice old newspaper funnies featuring Cliff Sterrett, Milt Gross, Clare Briggs and more are there today. Click the image below to go drool over them.

Those are sure great, but I gotta point to this as well… an inked version of the Wally Wood Spawn of Venus story I ran the pencils for previously, thinking they had not been inked… Courtesy of the Golden Age Comic Book Stories blog. Click on the image below to view it.

• I’LL WATCH YOU WORK
  from The Woodring Monitor
• National Cartoonist Society Profile: Walt Kelly
  from Dave Karlen Original Art Blog
• A heppy lend
  from The Ephemerist
• Slumberland Titles!
  from Meeting McCay
• ElfQuest goes online
  from Read Comics
• Kirby Kolor, A Kirby Myth
  from Simon and Kirby – Jack Kirby Museum & Research
• The Wide Angle Scream, More Pinups
  from Simon and Kirby – Jack Kirby Museum & Research
• Captain 3D
  from Simon and Kirby – Jack Kirby Museum & Research
• Some Obscure Simon and Kirby
  from Simon and Kirby – Jack Kirby Museum & Research
• More Obscure Simon and Kirby
  from Simon and Kirby – Jack Kirby Museum & Research
• A Date Without Romance
  from Simon and Kirby – Jack Kirby Museum & Research
• It’s a Crime, Chapter 1, Promoting Crime
  from Simon and Kirby – Jack Kirby Museum & Research
• It’s A Crime, Chapter 2, A Revitalized Title
  from Simon and Kirby – Jack Kirby Museum & Research
• It’s A Crime, Chapter 3, Competing Against Themselves
  from Simon and Kirby – Jack Kirby Museum & Research
• Simon and Kirby Take On Kiddy Comics
  from Simon and Kirby – Jack Kirby Museum & Research
• Alan Moore, Peter Bagge and Kool-Aid Man
  from Again With the Comics
• Sketchbook #63
  from FLOG! Entries
• Dash Shaw deconstructs BBB
  from FLOG! Entries
• Chocolate Cheeks for 7/18/08
  from FLOG! Entries
• Sketchbook #64
  from FLOG! Entries
• Sketchbook #65
  from FLOG! Entries
• Debuting at Comic-Con: SUBLIFE
  from FLOG! Entries
• Sketchbook #66
  from FLOG! Entries
• Lickety-Whop: Capt Easy Vs. Everybody
  from CR Briefings
• Friday Distraction: British Cartoon Archive
  from CR Briefings
• Sketchbook #68
  from FLOG! Entries
• Milt Gross Character Designs
  from all kinds of stuff
• Milt Gross, Funny Animals and Meanest Man plus Meat
  from all kinds of stuff
• Mort Drucker’s Girls
  from all kinds of stuff
• Leon On Vacation
  from THE BALLOONIST
• Revelation Offers Hope
  from THE BALLOONIST
• Look Out for Motorcycle Mike
  from THE BALLOONIST
• Go, Look: Superman/McCay Visuals
  from CR Briefings
• Chocolate Cheeks for 7/29/08
  from FLOG! Entries
• Sketchbook #70
  from FLOG! Entries
• Sketchbook #69
  from FLOG! Entries
• CR Sunday Preview: “Last Gig in Shnagrlig,” by Gilbert Shelton and Pic
  from CR Briefings
• Satirical WWI maps
  from Boing Boing
• Chocolate Cheeks for 8/1/08
  from FLOG! Entries
• Go, Look: Chris Ware’s Powerless
  from CR Briefings
• *Adventure Comics #151 ~ April/1950*
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• Frank Frazetta For a little over a year, late 1949
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• “Sock-a-Bye Kitty”…in comics
  from Classic Cartoons
• The Good Old Days – 05/21/1960
  from I Love Comix
• A visit with Basil Wolverton
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Little Nemo 1912-03-10
  from Comic Strip Library News
• New Strip! Bill and Budd, the Bird Boys!
  from The Barnacle Blog
• The Finger
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• “Wait right here, Foxie! I’ll be right back!”
  from Classic Cartoons
• Out Our Way – 11/06/1940
  from I Love Comix
• Pauline McPerils – 01/01/1967
  from I Love Comix
• Herriman Saturday
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Not Too Much Fun in the Sun
  from cul de sac
• Claire Voyant #2 cover
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Rules for Tourists
  from cul de sac
• Claire Voyant #2
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Little Nemo 1912-03-17
  from Comic Strip Library News
• ONE LOVELY DRAWING, part 20
  from ILLUSTRATION ART
• New Strip! Bud ‘N’ Bub!
  from The Barnacle Blog
• Fritz in Legs
  from Nedor-A-Day
• “The Man-Eater”
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Restaurant Closings
  from cul de sac
• *Number 345* * The doomed frat boys*
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Pauline McPerils – 08/07/1966
  from I Love Comix
• Room and Board – 12/22/1943
  from I Love Comix
• “Colds is only Imagination!”
  from Classic Cartoons
• Really Scary Funny Animal Comics
  from Cartoon SNAP
• Frank Robbins’ JOHNNY HAZARD
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Little Nemo 1912-03-31
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Mortimer Magic in Big Mistake
  from Nedor-A-Day
• The Ghoul!
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Welcome back! Monday cartoon day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• *Number 346* * “…through the sewer like a cannonball!”*
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Obscurity of the Day: Vic Jordan
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Sheldon Mayer Funny Animal Comic Book Scans Links
  from Cartoon SNAP
• Pauline McPerils – 08/21/1966
  from I Love Comix
• The Gumps – 10/30/1935
  from I Love Comix
• “Will one of you smart looking gentlemen assist me on the platform?"
  from Classic Cartoons
• Scribbly! (No. 1-A)
  from ThadBlog
• Little Nemo 1912-04-07
  from Comic Strip Library News
• The Monster in the Maze
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Adventures into Darkness #10 cover
  from Nedor-A-Day
• The Killers!
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Pauline McPerils – 09/04/1966
  from I Love Comix
• Winniw Winkle – 12/13/1939
  from I Love Comix
• A Bob Wickersham Moment
  from Classic Cartoons
• Wally Wood 1927 ~ 1981 Flash Gordon
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• Flessel With The Pessel Tuedsay newspaper strip
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• New and Old
  from Mark Kausler’s CatBlog
• VIP – Virgil Partch
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Little Nemo 1912-04-14
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Too Old to Live
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• The Black Terror in a Trip to Chile
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Number 347 * The Devil Dancers*
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• “Fadder Time” would love this!
  from Classic Cartoons
• I can’t figure out where this *Meteor Murphy* strip…
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• Pauline McPerils – 10/23/1966
  from I Love Comix
• Flash Gordon – 12/25/1955
  from I Love Comix
• Basil Wolverton 1909 ~ 1978
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• A Pest in the House
  from ThadBlog
• Golden Age Wonder Woman Crack
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• The paper with the prints. Wednesday Ad Day Looking
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Freckles – 01/13/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Little Lulu #63 (1953)
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Mickey Mouse, Boxing Champion Part 2
  from Rodney Bowcock’s Comics & Stories
• Scribbly! (No. 1-B)
  from ThadBlog
• Little Nemo 1912-04-21
  from Comic Strip Library News
• For the evening of July 23rd – New Issue of Problems – Red Threat!
  from Ethan Persoff, http://www.ep.tc/
• Golden Age Wonder Woman Crack
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Down in the Cellar
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Pinto in BULL!
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Flippity Pie?
  from Classic Cartoons
• Obscurity of the Day: Doesn’t It Seem Strange
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Freckles – 01/15/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Boots and her Biddies – 04/1936
  from I Love Comix
• Jeanie manipulation. Thursday story day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Not Just Another Pretty Face: Zero Hero – Starbright
  from Comicrazys
• “doodle-bug” Heads
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Toles & David 1896
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Quiet Evening in 1901
  from Punch in Canada
• Supermouse vs. Cooper Mouse
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Satan Is Waitin’
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Danders’ Search for Love
  from cul de sac
• Coo-Coo Comics #16 cover
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Little Nemo 1912-04-28
  from Comic Strip Library News
• The Pit of Horror!
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• *Number 348* * Pussycat the Bunnycat!*
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• “Whack’s Museum” from Arrgh! #1 (Marvel Comics)
  from The Comic Book Catacombs
• Obscurity of the Day: Of All Things
  from Stripper’s Guide
• *Artwork by* *Bernie Krigstein*
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• *Artwork by* *Reed Crandall*
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• *Artwork by* *Al Williamson & George Evans*
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• *Intended for the unpublished* *EC 3-D #3 ~ 1954*
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• Freckles – 01/16/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Right on Target. Friday comic book day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Wings of Death!
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Captain Future: The Case of the Black Mailing Shrink
  from Nedor-A-Day
• The batteries that keep on going…
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Meet the Moocher
  from Classic Cartoons
• Freckles – 01/17/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Herriman Saturday
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Mickey Mouse, Boxing champion part 3
  from Rodney Bowcock’s Comics & Stories
• Life Like That – 10/06/1968
  from I Love Comix
• Boots and her Buddies – 05/1936
  from I Love Comix
• Boots and her Buddies – 05/05/1968
  from I Love Comix
• Home Sweet Home – #67 – 1937
  from I Love Comix
• CAMEL
  from Viñetas
• THE PEPSI-COLA COPS
  from Viñetas
• Maple Leaf Comics
  from Punch in Canada
• Comics: JoJo Shares His Treasures
  from ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive
• Little Nemo 1912-07-21
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Paint a Picture in Crimson
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Berty Bird and the Killer Snake
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Down Hi & Lois Lane Again Wednesday Advertising Strip
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Number 355 The Ghost Patrol reinforces their ectoplasm!
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• “Sooky’s Other Self” (cont.)
  from The Comic Book Catacombs
• “Sooky’s Other Self” from Startling Comics #47 (Nedor)
  from The Comic Book Catacombs
• Obscurity of the Day: Uncle Jim and Tad and Tim
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Uncomfortable Moments
  from Introspective Comics
• Forbidden Worlds #138
  from Uncle Ernie’s Creature Ink
• The Graveyard Wanderer
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• The Unbeliever
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Little Nemo 1912-05-12
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Number 349 * Sparky Watts and the Walking Mummy*
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• “Way Down Yonder in Corn”
  from Classic Cartoons
• Freckles – 01/18/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Li’l Abner – 11/22/1967
  from I Love Comix
• Boots and her Buddies – 09/1936
  from I Love Comix
• Jim Ivey’s Sunday Comics
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Dinky: The Amateur Dentist – Jim Tyer
  from Comicrazys
• Little Nemo 1912-05-19
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Bang! Bang! Continued
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Bang! Bang!
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• If you try and fail, try and fail again. Sunday leftovers
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• New Strip! The “Hurry Up” New Yorker!
  from The Barnacle Blog
• Scribbly! (No. 1 C & D)
  from ThadBlog
• Lois Lane Annual #1
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Pasha the Persian: Illustrated 1936 – Milt Gross
  from Comicrazys
• Adam the Chimp
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Step into My Empty Shroud
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Woman in Red: Murder in a Riverdale Mansion
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Number 350 John Stanley’s Woody
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Obscurity of the Day: Annie Oakley
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Li’l Abner – 08/24/1947
  from I Love Comix
• There Oughta be a Law – 9/26 1950’s
  from I Love Comix
• Ketcham if you can! Monday cartoon day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Of Birthdays And Kings
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Freckles – 01/19/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• All-Winners Comics #1
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Doodles Duck
  from ThadBlog
• Mutt and Jeff
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Little Nemo 1912-05-26
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Snowzer in Bone-Head
  from Nedor-A-Day
• These, My Hands of Doom
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Freckles – 01/20/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Haunted Love!
  from datajunkie
• Anyone for Dennis? Tuesday strip day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Hewlett & Martin’s The 16s
  from Bear Alley
• The Case of the Well Bred Worms (Little Lulu 58)
  from Rodney Bowcock’s Comics & Stories
• Superman’s Girlfriend Lois Lane #13
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• A lurid TRUE CRIME cover from Jack Cole
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Mighty Bear, Vol. 1, No. 1
  from Geeklog Site
• Lair of the Black Widow
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Fighting Yank and the Enemy’s Airplane Factory
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Fighting Yank #12 cover
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Pencil Test is Finished!
  from Mark Kausler’s CatBlog
• Little Nemo 1912-06-02
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Spirit and ________(fill in the predictable blank)
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• *Number 351* * She Kamen through the bedroom window…*
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Obscurity of the Day: The Kerry Patch Triplets
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Beano Birthday Bash
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Ghost Who Walks… Man Who Never Dies (Re-Post)
  from datajunkie
• Late arrival. Wednesday ad Day As I said, Hank Ketcham…
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• “Jimmy Olsen’s Sweethearts!”
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• J. Millar Watt (1895-1975)
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Some nice work from Leslie Turner
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Little Nemo 1912-06-09
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Comic Books: Jim Tyer’s Funny Animal Comics
  from ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive
• New Strips! The Newlyweds’ Baby and Their Only Child!
  from The Barnacle Blog
• Jim Ivey’s Sunday Comics
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Skinny McGinty – Because Golden Age wasn’t just weird…
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Channel Chuckles – 07/30/1961
  from I Love Comix
• Girl Friends – 09/09/1931
  from I Love Comix
• *Larry Ivie’s Monsters and Heroes* #1-#7 ~ 1967-1970…
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• Life Drawing Sunday 33: C. D. Gibson 1897
  from Filboid Studge
• Blondie – 02/01/1946
  from I Love Comix
• Boots and her Buddies – 07/16/1940
  from I Love Comix
• Boots and her Buddies – 07/17/1940
  from I Love Comix
• Blondie – 12/06/1962
  from I Love Comix
• Sergio Aragones vs. Anthony Edward Stark
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Dippy
  from The Comic Book Catacombs
• Little Nemo 1912-07-07
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Rand Holmes (1942-2002)
  from Punch in Canada
• The Malignant Mummy
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Bill West and Little Fox in The Valley of Vanishing Men!
  from Nedor-A-Day
• A Safari of Death!
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Number 354 The Comic Book Goodguy
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• “The Pigeons of Flame” (cont.)
  from The Comic Book Catacombs
• Rulah, Jungle Goddess and “The Pigeons of Flame”
  from The Comic Book Catacombs
• Boots and her Buddies – 07/18/1940
  from I Love Comix
• Avon’s The Unknown Man (1951)
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Scribbly! (No. 2-A)
  from ThadBlog
• When Golden Age was actually kind of progressive
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• PEPSI AND PETE (1941-1942)
  from Viñetas
• Prince Vollant by Poissant
  from Punch in Canada
• Ketcham lighting In Bottle Monday Cartoon day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Robotman Comics…Good Ol’ Fashioned Comic Fun!
  from Cartoon SNAP
• Little Nemo 1912-07-14
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Let’s Go MAD
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Vengeance of the Tiger Queen
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Fine Arf
  from cul de sac
• Teenage Love Affair
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• “The Corpses That Wouldn’t Stay Dead!” (Part IV)
  from The Comic Book Catacombs
• “The Corpses That Wouldn’t Stay Dead!” (Part III)
  from The Comic Book Catacombs
• “The Corpses That Wouldn’t Stay Dead!” (Part II)
  from The Comic Book Catacombs
• Seaching Hi and Lois Tuesday gagstrip day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Normally I don’t do requests…
  from datajunkie
• Many a Brave… Thursday newpaper story day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Arch Dale (1882-1962)
  from Punch in Canada
• Little Nemo 1912-06-16
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Lardy the Pig in Chicken
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Ragsy in My Pal
  from Nedor-A-Day
• The Devil from the Deep
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Clan Of The Cave Girl
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Number 352 C’mon, get Happy! Dan Barry was a hotshot
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Obscurity of the Day: Double Eagle & Company
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Walter Ball (1911-?)
  from Punch in Canada
• The Fright-tinged Airboy/Valkyrie Romance – Part 3
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• *Richard Corben* *Some work from the 1970’s*
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• More J. Millar Watt
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Hear Ye Hear Ye! Friday comic book day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• The Michael Maltese Falcon
  from Classic Cartoons
• Homeless Homer in a Safe Place to Live
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Jetta in “Jet Jaunt”
  from Nedor-A-Day
• The Eerie World of Don Orehek
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• A Kingdom of the Dead
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Stimp Me Saturday leftover day. Wow.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Pop-Gun Pete (cont.)
  from The Comic Book Catacombs
• Pop-Gun Pete, Rose of the West (Fox Comics)
  from The Comic Book Catacombs
• Blood And Roses
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Long before the *San Diego Trade Show*
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• Comic Con: Mad Magazine
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Herriman Saturday
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Little Nemo 1912-06-30
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Little Nemo 1912-06-23
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Strange Warner Brothers Comic Book Crossovers – Elmer Fudd Meets Henry Bear and Family
  from Cartoon SNAP
• Montmorency
  from Punch in Canada
• Sergio Aragones- The Sword and the Son (Plus-Wakandickery!)
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• The Weird Worlds of Pete Wyma
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• The Shrunken Skull
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• The Black Terror vs. Dr. Ghoul
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Black Terror #10 cover
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Number 353 Typhoon Tyler
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Sideways Jeanie Sunday leftover day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Except
  from Introspective Comics
• “The plot is out there”
  from In This Corner
• The Talking Skull + The Purple Claw Origin
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Flip The Frog Annual: Wild West 1931
  from Comicrazys
• Haunted House on a Hill
  from Monster Without A Cause
• Protective
  from Introspective Comics
• Fast Forward
  from Introspective Comics
• “Your mileage may vary”
  from In This Corner
• The Still-Kinky Airboy/Valkyrie Romance – Part 5.2
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Not as Controversial as the New Yorker Cover…
  from Big Time Attic

Only two of Ub Iwerks’ Flip the Frog cartoons were made in color, and one of them was the first one, Fiddlesticks, seen below. I’ve always preferred the early Flip design to the later one… he looks much more like a frog, and much funnier. I would guess the design was changed so it would be easier to animate him turning his head… the designs are so different they don’t even resemble each other. If you want to see the later design, check out the coloring book posted at Comicrazys. I’ve also posted a number of Flip the Frog and other Ub Iwerks cartoons previously that can be seen here.

Note the apparent Mickey Mouse rip-off late in this cartoon… since Ub Iwerks created Mickey Mouse a couple years before this was made, it hardly seems like a rip-off, though.

Read more about this cartoon on the Big Cartoon Database here.

Read more about Ub Iwerks on Wikipedia here.

A fun Ub Iwerks take on The Three Bears versus the villainous burglar Goldilocks.

Read more about this cartoon on the Big Cartoon Database here.

A particularly strange Flip the Frog cartoon in which our hero gets plastic surgery.