Go here to see more Outbursts of Everett True on this site.

If you have a desire to draw your own interpretation of an Everett True strip and send it to me, I’d love to put it up for the internet for all to see with a link to your website or what have you. Send it to me at:

Click here to go to the Barnacle Press collection of Everett True strips by A.D. Condo

Click here to read about the lesser-known works of A.D. Condo at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read some samples of Mr. Skygack, From Mars by A.D. Condo at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read some samples of Diana Dillpickles by A.D. Condo at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read some samples of Duke Murphy by A.D. Condo at Barnacle Press.

Click here to the Toonopedia entry on Everett True

Click here to read about A.D. Condo at lambiek.net.

• The Outer Gate: 1937
  from Shorpy – The 100-Year-Old Photo Blog
• CCI XTRA: Paul Pope Spotlight
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• SO REAL YOU CAN TASTE IT
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• (link:) A quick Heinrich Kley web round-up
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• SD07: Video Blog #5 – Charles Vess
  from THE BEAT
• Weird 1940s tourist attraction ad: “The Midget Palace”
  from Boing Boing
• Chuck E Cheese bots modded to play hiphop
  from Boing Boing
• Idle Monsters
  from Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog
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• July 31, 2007: White and nerdy
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• Laugh-Out-Loud Cats Sunday Strip #1
  from HOBOTOPIA
• Your 2007 San Diego Con Update
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• Berkeley Breathed interviewed by The Bat Segundo Show
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• Interview: Harvey Pekar Pt 3 (of 3)
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• July 30, 2007: Hollywood eats San Diego
  from Journalista – the news weblog of The Comics Jour
• The Parlor Slacker: 1918
  from Shorpy – Comics
• Mickey Mouse shaped vegetables at EPCOT farm
  from Boing Boing
• SD07: Video Blog #2 – Scott McCloud
  from THE BEAT
• The Pearce Sisters
  from Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog
• Notes of a Japanese solider in the USSR
  from Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog
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• History: Dispatch From Disney’s Part Two
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• Jim Blanchard
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• A Cornucopia of Vintage Comics
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  from Larry Marder’s Beanworld
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• Now Look What You Went An’ Done: 1910
  from Shorpy – Comics
• July 27, 2007: San Diego ate the news
  from Journalista – the news weblog of The Comics Jour
• The Newlyweds – Their Baby: 1910
  from Shorpy – Comics
• Take My Wife: 1920
  from Shorpy – Comics
• euro influences
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• Crimes By Women #7
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  from Sarah Morean
• “Flight of fancy”
  from In This Corner
• July 26, 2007: Female contortionists and the like
  from Journalista – the news weblog of The Comics Jour
• Vintage Planned Parenthood issue of Spider-Man comic
  from Boing Boing
• THB lands at First Second
  from THE BEAT
• WFMU’s Thomas Edison’s Attic from Jul 24, 2007
  from WFMU’s Thomas Edison’s Attic
• eric
  from Sarah Morean
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  from David Steinlicht
• The Dictator: 1920
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• What May Poles Stand For: 1918
  from Shorpy – Comics
• Comics: Milt Gross’ Dave’s Delicatessen
  from ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive
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• Pa’s Perfectly Frank About It: 1918
  from Shorpy – Comics
• July 25, 2007: Are you tasting the work learned from…
  from Journalista – the news weblog of The Comics Jour
• Bagge, Reason, and Washington Post
  from FLOG!
• Indie Spinner Rack Issue #90
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• My Thoughts on “Deathly Hallows” as seen through my…
  from Larry Marder’s Beanworld

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 September 30, 1906. This one has a header by Gus Mager of Sherlocko the Monk and Hawkshaw the Detective fame. Warning: this strip contains the sort of offensive racial stereotypes that were typical of the era… if such things offend you I suggest you avoid viewing this. 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.

The final week of my friend Eric Lappegard’s semi-autobiographical comic strip Schmapples, drawn the week before his ultimately fatal car accident, can now be seen on his website (as can the comic strip he had in the Comix issue of City Pages the week he died). I recommend reading Schmapples starting from the beginning if you haven’t already read them. You won’t want to miss them. Eric gave himself one hell of a conclusion. Life can be terrible, but sometimes art can be perfect.

Please note that we’ll have a complete Schmapples collection available at the benefit show for Eric’s family on September 8th at Altered Esthetics.

I’ve decided to start slowly making my way through the Otto Messmer’s Felix the Cat cartoons that have been posted online that I can find in the order they were released. Here is Felix’s first cartoon, Feline Follies, from 1919. Technically, it isn’t even a Felix cartoon… he is referred to as “Master Tom” in this one. I don’t know if Messmer had much experience animating before this, but it sure looks like he must have. His proficiency for showing character in his characters is already apparent… look at “Master Tom’s” vanity as he checks himself out in the mirror. It is often noted that Felix was the first cartoon character with a well-defined personality. His personality is definitely what made him the most popular animated cartoon character of the twenties.

Besides the wonderful Felix animated cartoons, Messmer was a fantastic comic strip and comic book cartoonist. The ASIFA Animation Archive recently had a generous post of Felix Sunday newspaper comics which can be seen here. If you dig these comics, you won’t want to miss the excellent reprint book that came out from Fantagraphics a number of years ago, Nine Lives to Live.

I wish someone would do a huge reprint series of Messmer’s comic book work like the great Little Lulu books from Dark Horse… I can’t think of a better comic book to read to my almost 2-year-old daughter.

Go here to see more Outbursts of Everett True on this site.

If you have a desire to draw your own interpretation of an Everett True strip and send it to me, I’d love to put it up for the internet for all to see with a link to your website or what have you. Send it to me at:

Click here to go to the Barnacle Press collection of Everett True strips by A.D. Condo

Click here to read about the lesser-known works of A.D. Condo at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read some samples of Mr. Skygack, From Mars by A.D. Condo at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read some samples of Diana Dillpickles by A.D. Condo at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read some samples of Duke Murphy by A.D. Condo at Barnacle Press.

Click here to the Toonopedia entry on Everett True

Click here to read about A.D. Condo at lambiek.net.

• The Fly in the Ointment: 1920
  from Shorpy – The 100-Year-Old Photo Blog
• CALL TO ARTISTS: a tribute/benefit anthology for Eric…
  from Cartoonist Conspiracy
• Flash Animated Philosophy From South Park Creators
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• A Square Meal for a Nickel: 1910
  from Shorpy – The 100-Year-Old Photo Blog
• Bowery Flophouse: 1903
  from Shorpy – The 100-Year-Old Photo Blog
• Interview with First Second’s Mark Siegel, Part 1
  from Comic Book Headlines
• Interview with First Second’s Mark Siegel, Part 2
  from Comic Book Headlines
• Pa’s Got Th’ Right System: 1918
  from Shorpy – The 100-Year-Old Photo Blog
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• Interview: Harvey Pekar Pt. 2
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• Missed It: Joe Quesada on Zuda
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• Do You Know What I’m Going To Do Next Saturday? (flickr…
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  from FLOG!
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  from BOOKSTEVE’S LIBRARY
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  from BOOKSTEVE’S LIBRARY
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  from BOOKSTEVE’S LIBRARY
• Briefly: Peter Bagge on the Death of the Weekly World…
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• THE BEAR MAXIMUM
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• July 24, 2007: Dullsville Tuesday morning
  from Journalista – the news weblog of The Comics Jour
• Emperor Joshua Norton
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• July 23, 2007: Surviving the Plastic Age
  from Journalista – the news weblog of The Comics Jour
• Image Editing: The best freeware design programs
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• High-Tech Squirrels Trained to Conduct Espionage
  from Slashdot
• Awful Sick: January 1, 1910
  from Shorpy – The 100-Year-Old Photo Blog
• Paul Pope signing at San Diego
  from First Second Books – Doodles and Dailies
• Old Skool Cartoonists Say Cheese, Pt. 11: Cliff Sterrett
  from Arflovers
• Get Illuminated! podcast #12: R.U. Sirius
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• Drew Friedman podcast + preview
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• SHOCKING DISPLAY OF EXTRANEOUS TIME
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• Mall of America Mandrill
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• Henry Morgan: Fuck the Sponsor
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• PBS NIGHTS
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• CR Sunday Interview: Adrian Tomine
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• Miniature anatomical toys from Japan
  from Boing Boing
• WHILE THE TAXI WAITS
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• Former Spammer Reveals Secrets in New Book
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• 200 Bad Comics
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• Dick Dale and the Del-Tones “Miserlou” from “A Swingin’…
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• Quote, Unquote
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• Color footage from 1941 Disney strike
  from Boing Boing
• from Golden Age Comic Book Stories

My friend and fellow cartoonist conspirator Eric Lappegard passed away this morning from complications after a car accident that had left him paralyzed earlier this month. Eric was a charming fella, full of passion and enthusiasm, and talented as hell. Please take the time to check out some of his wonderful comics and get a glimpse of what we’ve lost.

His family will be incurring considerable expenses from this horrible tragedy. Please consider giving a donation. Donations can be made to:

Account of Eric Lappegard

Voyager Bank

500 Marschall Road

Shakopee, MN 55379

There will also be a benefit event September 8th in the Twin Cities which will include a gallery show and comics anthology, a bike race and live music. You can get current information about it as it comes together on the Cartoonist Conspiracy blog. I hope to see you there.

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.

• WALLACE WOOD(1927 ~ 1981)…2 of his early non-EC…
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• Certo: 1938
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