I’ve always liked Syd Hoff’s gag cartoons and his childrens’ books… Barkley, Oliver and Grizzwold are frequent reads with my three year old. Here’s a selection of Syd Hoff cartoons from his book Feeling No Pain (1944) at Hairy Green Eyeball.

Any day I can feature some George Herriman is a good day… and these days, between the Krazy Kat dailies reprints at Comic Strip Library News and Mark Kausler’s CatBlog, the Herriman Saturdays at the Stripper’s Guide, and stuff that just shows up miscellaneously, I’m happy to report that this seems to happen almost every time I post.

Note that in the news on their site, Comic Strip Library News reports they have now posted the complete pre-1923 Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay.

The Fortress Of Fortitude takes us on a trip to Weird City (published originally in Blue Bolt Weird Tales of Terror # 119).

• MIS CHICAS Nº29
  from Viñetas
• MIS CHICAS Nº32
  from Viñetas
• EL GEPETTO DE JESÚS BLASCO
  from Viñetas
• Midwestern Origins of Thanksgiving
  from Amazing Facts…and Beyond!
• When The Future Was Only a Few Years Away Wednesday…
  from Those Fabuleous 50’s
• ANITA DIMINUTA EN MIS CHICAS Nº1
  from Viñetas
• Melvin Monster – The End, for now…
  from Magic Carpet Burn
• Melvin Monster – The Collector Cometh!
  from Magic Carpet Burn
• Melvin Monster – Human Bean Land
  from Magic Carpet Burn
• Melvin Monster – Beware the Burple Pubble!
  from Magic Carpet Burn
• Melvin Monster!
  from Magic Carpet Burn
• Tales Of Voodoo – The King Of Hades
  from Magic Carpet Burn
• Dracula #8 – Dracula Finds His Specialty…
  from Magic Carpet Burn
• The Owl #2 – The Terror Twins Pt. 1 The Weird Weapons…
  from Magic Carpet Burn
• Frankenstein #4 – Silence is Deadly or Golden…
  from Magic Carpet Burn
• Batman #180 – Death Knocks Three Times
  from Magic Carpet Burn
• Death Knocks Three Times – Part 2
  from Magic Carpet Burn
• Death Knocks Three Times – The Startling Conclusion
  from Magic Carpet Burn
• Superman #140 – The Son Of Bizarro!
  from Magic Carpet Burn
• Superman #140 – The “Orphan” Bizarro!
  from Magic Carpet Burn
• Superman #140 – The Bizarro Supergirl!
  from Magic Carpet Burn
• Did you know this is out?
  from FAMILY
• [image: kikilelutin] [image: kikilelutin2] [image:...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: artimagesp1a] [image: habit impaye a] [image:...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: devitminet][image: devine gf2][image: devine...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: proprio] (1932)
  from Agence eureka
• [image: grenouillebleu] Grenouille (1936)
  from Agence eureka
• [image: 6bras a] [image: 6bras b] [image: patenlairs...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: mdelapalisse 1] [image: mdelapalisse 2] [image:...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: peprnc 1] [image: peprnc 2] [image: peprnc...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: devinette oeil] [image: devinette leloup]…
  from Agence eureka
• [image: belle selmap1] [image: belle selmap2] [image:...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: prrose] [image: belle selma] [image: prince]…
  from Agence eureka
• [image: bob a tue un ours 1] [image: bob a tue un...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: devi grenouille] [image: devi alouette] [image:...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: zoo 1] [image: zoo 2] [image: zoo 3] [image:...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: Ane] [image: nanette ane 1] [image: nanette...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: bona péthy] [image: fameuse idée] [image:...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: pilote des sables 7] [image: pilote des sables...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: vincent pourcent 1] [image: vincent pourcent...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: sousmar 1][image: sousmar 2] [image: sousmar...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: hdefr] [image: hdefr 0] [image: hdefr 1] [image:...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: anicom 1] [image: anicom 2] [image: anicom...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: illfra 2] [image: illfra 1] [image: illfra...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: le lever] [image: la toilette] [image: dejeuner]…
  from Agence eureka
• [image: les metiers 1] [image: les metiers 2] [image:...
  from Agence eureka
• [image: chemin] [image: cuisine] [image: clapier]…
  from Agence eureka
• [image: chat coll] (Pierrot 1936)
  from Agence eureka
• Fisty: Foooood!
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Butch and Buttercup in So This is Fame
  from Nedor-A-Day
• The Woman In Red in Black Ned’s Cave
  from Nedor-A-Day
• The Showoff
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Syd Hoff
  from Hairy Green Eyeball
• Krazy Kat 1921-02-25
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Krazy Kat 1921-02-24
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Krazy Kat 1921-03-02
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Krazy Kat 1921-03-01
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Krazy Kat 1921-03-07
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Krazy Kat 1921-03-05
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Krazy Kat 1921-03-04
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Krazy Kat 1921-03-03
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Krazy Kat 1921-03-09
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Krazy Kat 1921-03-08
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Krazy Kat 1921-03-16
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Krazy Kat 1921-03-15
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Krazy Kat 1921-03-14
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Krazy Kat 1921-03-12
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Krazy Kat 1921-03-11
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Krazy Kat 1921-03-10
  from Comic Strip Library News
• The Devil, You Say?
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Flebus and Iwao
  from Mark Kausler’s CatBlog
• Number 416 Origin of Mr. Justice This is a followup…
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Weird City
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Time to pull the plug?
  from Mattias Inks
• Cheap Detectives Week continues with Black and White…
  from Diversions of the Groovy Kind
• Ryan’s E-Mail
  from Introspective Comics
• Dramatic Resurrection
  from transatlantis
• Monstruos Diabolicos Redux
  from Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

TODAY’S FEATURED ITEMS:

I Love Comix brings us some highly bizarre Chester Gould Dick Tracy Sundays from a few years before he retired. Gould’s art and stories were always highly eccentric, but near the end of his run a lot of his strips were downright incoherent… always interesting, though. Click the image above to go there.

The Comic Book Catacombs brings us Concert of the Apes… click the image above to go there.

Another Herriman Saturday at Allan Holtz’s Stripper’s Guide! Click the image above to go there.

Golden Age Comic Book Stories brings us a bunch of gorgeous Winsor McCay editorial illustrations. Click the image above to go there.

Finally, Scans Daily presents a wonderful and fairly obscure (not reprinted, as far as I know) Alan Moore/Don Simpson rarity from the 1986 Fantagraphics anthology Anything Goes! #2. Click the above image to go there.

• Help trumps Playboy
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Future Fashion According to Star Pirate (Part 4)
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Freckles – 01/05/1924
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Little Nemo 1914-03-29
  from Comic Strip Library News
• The Ghost’s Curse
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Miss Masque: The Devil to Pay
  from Nedor-A-Day
• XKCD strip explains how DRM creates piracy
  from Boing Boing
• Hitting too close to home
  from THE BEAT
• Comic Books: Huckleberry Hound Weekly
  from ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive
• Rocky daily strips start TODAY!
  from FLOG! Entries
• The Abominable Birdman
  from Uncle Ernie’s Creature Ink
• The Gorilla
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• an older one but…
  from new bodega
• Shocktoberfest Double Whammy!
  from datajunkie
• Missed It: WaPo Buys Out Rick Redfern
  from CR Briefings
• Old Comics – The Mind Reader!
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Alan Moore’s “IN PICTOPIA!”
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Jim Ivey’s Sunday Comics
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Freckles – 03/12/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Sitting animals
  from Mattias Inks
• RASL #3 first five pages PREVIEW
  from B o n e v i l l e
• The Man Who Talked to Ghosts!
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Little Nemo 1914-03-15
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Supermouse in The Timid Giant
  from Nedor-A-Day
• The Fighting Yank: Black Wings of Death
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Linda Lark, Student Nurse, No. 1
  from Geeklog Site
• The Flintstones: Sundays 1965-1970
  from Comicrazys
• Number 395 The Time Trolls I’m sure I’ve pissed off…
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Return of the Midnight Philosopher
  from Hairy Green Eyeball
• Chocolate Cheeks for 10/10/08 and a webcomics announcement
  from FLOG! Entries
• Hairy Midget Elf
  from Top Shelf 2.0 Webcomics
• The Shrunken Head vs. Devil Drums
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Winsor McCay 1867 ~ 1934
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• Freckles – 03/09/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Herriman Saturday
  from Stripper’s Guide
• The Concert of the Apes
  from The Comic Book Catacombs
• Jill Trent: Science Sleuth in The Case of the Black Sheep Murder!
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Chop chop: Woody Woodpecker from “New Funnies” #110, 1946
  from Stanley Stories
• Little Nemo 1913-12-21
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Little Nemo 1913-12-14
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Literature of the Lower Orders
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• The Phantom Stranger
  from datajunkie
• Miss Peach – May 1961 – Sundays
  from I Love Comix
• Freckles – 01/03/1924
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Little-seen Will Eisner art — The Spirit, 1967
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Pinups: Doug Sneyd and Phil Interlandi
  from ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive
• The Grinning Skulls!
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• More on Baba
  from Sekvenskonst
• Some Dick Tracy Sundays from 1974
  from I Love Comix
• Number 394 Ray Willner’s Gunga
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Kurtzman rareties
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Freckles – 03/10/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Old Comics – “Alone with a Ghost”
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Old Comics – “Nightmare”
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Old Comics – “Out of My Mind”
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Spoons
  from Mattias Inks
• Peanuts Every Sunday!
  from Rodney Bowcock’s Comics & Stories
• Daisy’s Spring Cleaning (WDCS 213)
  from Rodney Bowcock’s Comics & Stories
• Old Comics – “Beauty and the Beast!”
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• King Aroo Makes a Movie
  from Cartoon SNAP
• Freckles – 01/04/1924
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Can you handle the shocking truth about CABBAGES?
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Snowbeard, the Old Storyteller
  from Monster Without A Cause
• Friends With Carl
  from Introspective Comics
• Convention Sketches
  from Freshman for Life
• Johnny Cavalier: “Vegan Exposé”
  from Freshman for Life
• My NEW Toy
  from I Love Comix
• Miss Peach by Mell Lazarus
  from Beautiful Balloons with Maggie Thompson
• Freckles – 01/02/1924
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Table Lover
  from Cognomania. The Webcomic.
• First Post.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• *Here’s the missing page 2 of the last story from Haunted!
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories

Here’s an example I scanned from October 2nd, 1904 of Little Sammy Sneeze by Winsor McCay.

Click the image to view the full strip.

Click here to read more examples of Little Sammy Sneeze at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read about Winsor McCay at lambiek.net.

Click here to buy Little Sammy Sneeze book from Sunday Press Books

Click here to read more about Little Sammy Sneeze at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

There are too many McCay books for me to reference here… we live in wondrous times. Here is a link to the amazing McCay books from Sunday Press printed and restored at full size… big enough to be used as a blunt object. They recently did a Little Sammy Sneeze book that oh boy I gotta have someday, which also includes a lot of examples of two other marvelous strips that were printed on the backs of the Sammy Sneeze strips… The Upside-Downs by Gustave Verbeek and J.P. Benson’s Woozlebeasts.

Allan Holtz at the excellent old comics blog The Stripper’s Guide posted an example the other day of The Wish Twins and Aladdin’s Lamp by W.O. Wilson, which inspired me to get this posted. Here’s an example I scanned from August 5th, 1906 of The Wish Twins and Aladdin’s Lamp by W.O. Wilson, along with Little Sammy Sneeze by Winsor McCay, and Feminine Fancies by unknown. If anyone out there knows the cartoonist who did Feminine Fancies (which I believe is the same series as Fancies of the Fair), please let me know… their signature is in the middle panel.

Click the image to view the full strip.

Click here to read more examples of Little Sammy Sneeze at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read more examples of The Wish Twins and Aladdin’s Lamp at Barnacle Press.

See some stunning examples of W.O. Wilson’s Madge the Magician’s Daughter at Hogan’s Alley (which are also in black and white in the print edition of the magazine).

Click here to read more examples of Fancies of the Fair at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read about Winsor McCay at lambiek.net.

Click here to read about W.O. Wilson at lambiek.net.

It appears someone recently published a small book collection of Madge the Magician’s Daughter.

There are too many McCay books for me to reference here… we live in wondrous times. Here is a link to the amazing McCay books from Sunday Press printed and restored at full size… big enough to be used as a blunt object. They recently did a Little Sammy Sneeze book that oh boy I gotta have someday, which also includes a lot of examples of two other marvelous strips that were printed on the backs of the Sammy Sneeze strips… The Upside-Downs by Gustave Verbeek and J.P. Benson’s Woozlebeasts.

Winsor McCay was a pioneer in both comic strips and animated films, and he did both disciplines more skillfully than anyone else attempting them at the time. This lovely cartoon was hand animated on rice paper and color tinted by hand on the film by Winsor McCay in 1911, if you can believe that. 1911!

Please be advised that like much of the popular culture of the era, it contains offensive racial depictions. If this sort of thing offends you, you may not want to view it.

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

Read more about Winsor McCay at Lambiek.net.

Read more about Winsor McCay on Wikipedia.

There is a DVD that collects Winsor McCay’s cartoons that can be purchased here.

I think all his cartoons are available on the internet as well.