Here is an excerpt from the fabulous, surreal Ladislaw Starewicz stop-motion animation short “The Mascot” from 1933… there is a lot more to this cartoon that is not shown, but unfortunately, this is the longest clip of it I’ve seen on the internet. Anyone out there know of a full version somewhere?

UPDATE: I have posted the full version here.

In any case, you can see the full version along with a lot of other amazing Starewicz cartoons on the The Cameraman’s Revenge and Other Fantastic Tales DVD. Starewicz was one of the earliest stop-motion animators.

You can read more about Starewicz here.

There are some short Starewicz videos, along with some other amazing eastern European stop motion animation examples that I ran across here.

J. Otto Siebold is one of my daughter’s and my favorite children’s book illustrators. He’d probably best known for his book (and cartoon) Olive the Other Reindeer… in addition to his wonderful books, J. Otto has done some wonderful work online. Unfortunately his previous domain name was hijacked by domain name spam barons a while ago, but fortunately it was all moved to the funnier domain name of jottodotcom.com. There is lots to see there… make sure not to miss Bubblesoap.

Additionally, you’ll want to take a look at the Target: Ready, Set, Read site he designed, which was brought beautifully to life by my friends at Big Time Attic and Puny Games.

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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 October 2, 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.

Here’s another example of F.M. Howarth’s strip The Love of Lulu and Leander from December 31, 1905. Click the image to read the strip. It’s a full page New Years themed strip with a nice header by a different artist… I don’t know who the artist for it is, though. Anyone out there know?

You can see more examples of this strip (and many other classic comics) at Barnacle Press.

Here’s a GREAT surreal Japanese cartoon by Ikuo Oishi from 1933… the more I watch it the more I like it. If the Fleischer Brothers had been Japanese this is what they might have made. Parts of this remind me of Jim Woodring as well. It really makes me want to see more early Japanese animation. Don’t miss this one!

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 1906. 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.

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Here’s another example of F.M. Howarth’s strip The Love of Lulu and Leander from September 11, 1904. Click the image to read the strip. It’s a full page strip with a header by Gus Mager of Sherlocko the Monk fame.

You can see more examples of this strip (and many other classic comics) at Barnacle Press.