My 2-year old daughter and I have been watching a whole lot of Betty Boop cartoons lately. Here’s a fun one. Homeland security is going to be all over Betty and Koko after this…
Monthly Archives: December 2007
Interesting Links: Jimland Novelties
Here’s a fantastic link for you. Over at Jimland, someone is posting a ton of amazing Jimland Novelties made by the one and only Jim Woodring. Most of these handmade wonders were items fantastically and mysteriously described in the back of various Woodring comics (like the one pictured above). I never got around to sending away for any of them, much to my eternal, wailing regret. These regrets are soothed somewhat by this wonderful online treasure trove.
Interesting Links: December 20, 2007
- Defense technology holiday gift guide
from Boing Boing
- Self-Portrait
from Jim Flora
- New Strip! Soldier Speerens, U.S.A
from The Barnacle Blog
- Vampire’s Blood
- The Original Jabba The Hut (not a mispelling)
- CR Holiday Interview #5: Tom Devlin
from The Comics Reporter
- Christmas in Toyland, Day 4
from Stripper’s Guide
- The Twin Cities Rock Atlas in this Week’s City Pages
- Christmas in December!
from Big Time Attic
- Bagge goes Batty
- “Cookie decorating tips”
from In This Corner
- Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship
- Fig. 1.
from Blog Flume
- Imbeciles, Morons, Idiots: 1913
- Hack O’Hara Lou Fine did the art for 2 Hack O’Hara…
- David Byrne’s guide to being a musician in the 21st…
from Boing Boing
- David Byrne and Radiohead’s Thom Yorke talk music…
from Boing Boing
- ‘The Wedding Racket’: Edward Gorey magazine illustrations,…
- Out Of Context Cinema: Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny
- *Number 235* * “H-He didn’t even kill me!”* * * This
- Christmas in Toyland, Day 3
from Stripper’s Guide
- Village of reproduced paintings
from Boing Boing
- *Number 236* * Rat Fink Christmas* I was reminded…
- Chicago police ask you to report people using maps…
from Boing Boing
- Lou Fine (1914 ~ 1971) The Black Condor from Crack…
- The Cat Jumped Over the Corpse
- WFMU’s Antique Phonograph Music Program from Dec 18,…
- J Allen St John (1872 ~ 1957) 3 of his Weird Tales…
- GLORY, GLORY, GLORY!
from The Woodring Monitor
- Death on Skis
- Bugaloos, Vol. 1, No. 1
from Geeklog Site
- Random Comics News Story Round-Up
from The Comics Reporter
- New Pekar/Bertozzi Comic
from THE BEAT
- Writing the Unthinkable w/Lynda Barry
from THE BEAT
- Gasoline Alley
- Wax cylinder xmas music MP3s
from Boing Boing
- Christmas in Toyland, Day 2
from Stripper’s Guide
- Monkeys Almost As Proficient As College Students At…
from Monkeys In The News
- New Line makes nice with Jackson for HOBBIT
from THE BEAT
- Tips and Tricks: Brush Care
from Big Time Attic
- Cream City Conversations with Danno
from Cream City Comics
- The OTHER Brian Bolland Batman story
- Disney as a religion, the college course
from Boing Boing
- Unusual old Japanese model kits
from Boing Boing
- The Small Press League
- Stacks
from Blog Flume
- Sketchbook, 1950s
from Jim Flora
- the universal struggle!
- For Your Listening Pleasure
from Comics Comics
- Disneyland’s Monsanto plastic House of the Future…
from Boing Boing
- Chicago’s fake vomit industralists
from Boing Boing
- Ghost With a Torch
- Dave Sim and Rob Liefeld
- Blind Date
- The Weird Woman!
- First-person account of CIA torture survivor
from Boing Boing
- Federal shredding budget soars
from Boing Boing
- How To Cook A Gentile
from The Ephemerist
- Wally Wood does Superman part 1 – MAD #4 – Superduperman!
- Wally Wood does Superman part 2 – Sally Forth
- Wally Wood does Superman part 3 – Gangbang #2
- *Number 233* * The Terrible Trunk* From Atlas’
- Herriman Saturday
from Stripper’s Guide
- Lobster Fight!
from jimland
- Snake (rough draft)
from jimland
- W. Heath Robinson (1872 ~ 1944) A Song of the English…
- Mister Wonderful, Part 13
from FLOG!
- They’ll Never Believe Me
- CR Holiday Interview #1: Joe Sacco
from The Comics Reporter
- Great (and not so great) moments in EC history, Pt….
- Spidey Super Stories: “Reader vs Speeder!”
- A Yuletide Frolic II : Sinners’ Holiday
- Pee-Wee Herman Fan Club Membership Kit (1983)
- Angelica
from jimland
- Christmas Cards
from jimland
- Frank N. Stein
- Christmas in Toyland, Day 1
from Stripper’s Guide
- The Character Design of Ward Kimball
- Golden Age Wonder Woman
- *Number 234* * “‘Twas the night before…”* Boody Rogers
- Monday’s Random Decrees
- Cutaways of Fantastic Four’s Baxter Building
from Boing Boing
- Keep On Truckin’
from Eyeburn
- Santa’s Secrets, Day 5
from Stripper’s Guide
- Little Tijuana
from transatlantis
- Sunday Comix Joins The Conspiracy
from || SUNDAY COMIX ||
- “More versions of ‘Blade Runner'”
from In This Corner
- Dec. 14, 2007: Closing for the Holidays
- Jiva Portrait
from jimland
- Self-Publised Jim #1
from jimland
- Change of Address Card
from jimland
- Photograph
from jimland
- Proposal
from jimland
- Sketch
from jimland
- Alzheimer’s Haiku
from jimland
- Smog Giant
from jimland
- Kava Kava Diary
from jimland
- Big Green Amphibian Watercolor
from jimland
- The Comics Journal Message Board :: View topic – Jim…
- Jules Feiffer interview
from FLOG!
- Franklin Booth (1874 ~ 1948) from The Century Magazine
- On The First Day Of Christmas…
- This Day In Arf History: Buz Sawyer Marries Christy…
from Arflovers
- The Blood Money of Galloping Chad Burgess
- *Number 232* * It’s not easy being green* Pity the…
- N By NW
- Santa’s Secrets, Day 4
from Stripper’s Guide
- Pope searches for literary quality in comics
from THE BEAT
- Free on the web equals sales?
from THE BEAT
- PETA Targets Homeland Security Agency On Chimp Research
from Monkeys In The News
- Dec. 13, 2007: Imperfect example
- The Sunshine Makers — 1932 cartoon about happy mutants…
from Boing Boing
- The Comics Journal Message Board :: View topic – Jim…
- Treat Yourself This Holiday Season
from Drawn and Quarterly
- The Pros and Cons of Coffee Drinking
- Santa’s Secrets, Day 3
from Stripper’s Guide
- Big Books Coming From Feiffer, Doucet
from The Comics Reporter
- I KNOW YOU ARE, BUT WHO AM I?
from good evening
- Home Page: Where Are We?
from MichaelBarrier.com
- Terry Pratchett has rare, early-onset Alzheimer’s
from Boing Boing
- A New Low For Online Animation Contests
- Roxo Beverages’ “How To Draw Cartoons”
- Montreal: December 15th by Julie Doucet
from The Walrus Magazine
- Dell Comics Are Good Too
from The Ephemerist
- Dec. 12, 2007: A contemptuous wave of his hand
- GUERRA A LA TIERRA. SEGUNDA PARTE
from Viñetas
- MONSTRUOS, METEORITOS Y KING KONG…
from Viñetas
- CARTEL PARA PORTUGAL DE EL CAPITAN MISTERIO
from Viñetas
- Not Dead Enough
- *Number 231* * Santa ‘shrooms* Santa meets Alice…
- *Number 230* * Asylum* From *Race For The Moon* #1…
- Jean Shepherd Reads ‘The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill’…
- Gary Panter’s ‘Rozz Tox Manifesto’ (circa 1980)
- The Pee Wee Herman Show Original Cast Recording (1981)
- 78s fRom HeLL: Two by Raymond Scott and his New Orchestra…
- Dave Cooper’s action painting
from FLOG!
- Color Commentary
from Comics Comics
- Ed Emberley & Me
from Goofbutton
- Al Williamson & Roy Krenkel from Astonishing #57 January…
- Super, All-action & For Boys AND Girls !
from The Ephemerist
- Withering Heights
- The String of Pearls
- Blueprints For Delinquency (ARTICLE)
- Love Me Forever
- I, the Robot
- The Last Kkrul
- An Embarrassment of Snubs
from The Barnacle Blog
- Santa’s Secrets, Day 2
from Stripper’s Guide
- Santa’s Secrets, Day 1
from Stripper’s Guide
- Herriman Saturday
from Stripper’s Guide
- 365 Days #345 – The Money Maker (mp3s)
- Radio: Forgotten but not Missed
- 365 Days #336 – Sound 8: Background Music For Your…
- Television of Temporary Interest
- “Edwin S. Hope was an Australian, born in around 1840…
from Yesterday’s Papers
- July 10, 1886, Edwin S. Hope (Cardiff) writes to Young…
from Yesterday’s Papers
- An enigmatic lady, S. Holland. Would you believe I…
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Mr. Supercool
from Blog Flume
- The River of Failure
from Blog Flume
- Friday Distraction: Audio Interviews
from The Comics Reporter
- WFMU’s Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison from Dec…
- American Vaudeville
from Cylinder Radio
- Cylinder History
from Cylinder Radio
- Dec. 11, 2007: It’s beginning to look a lot like Dullsville
5 Highlights of 5 Years of the International Cartoonist Conspiracy
I just wrote a large post talking about five highlights of the first five years of The International Cartoonist Conspiracy… you can read it here.
Holiday Foodog Mugs

No holiday season would be complete without the foodog guardians on either side of the chimney… for as we know, a roaring fire does not guarantee protection from rosy-cheeked elf invaders. The moon-born guardians of dreams are now available on mugs in which you can ironically drink caffeine-laden beverages in a vain attempt to avoid their fearsome and inevitable wrath. Click here to purchase the right-facing canine, and here to purchase his left-facing comrade.* These murderous beasts of Morpheus are also available (for a limited time) on a variety of garments that, unfortunately, will offer you no protection at all from them once they have your scent burning in their firey nostrils. Chain mail would really be more appropriate, but we’re all on a budget this time of year, aren’t we? Wear these fine threads and know, at least, that when you are devoured you will have seen them coming. Happy holidays!
*We take no responsibility for any hint of urine under the holiday tree corpse offering.
Slim Gaillard Trio 1946 – Lagunaoroonie
Interesting Links: December 11, 2007
- Robot animation illustrates the rise, fall and cause…
from Boing Boing
- Advertising Sonics Shot Directly Into Your Skull
from Warren Ellis
- Dec. 10, 2007: No naked buttcracks
- Intended as the cover to Famous Funnies #217, it was…
- *Number 229* * The Phantom Of Notre Dame* Reader…
- *Number 227* * Christmas with Ma and Pa Hubbard*…
- Lou Fine The Black Condor from Crack comics #6 October…
- Maxfield Parrish his illustrations for Wagner’s Nibelung…
- Frederick Wertham, much-vilified author of Seduction…
from Yesterday’s Papers
- While the City Sleeps
- Nightmare World
- Escape to Death!
- Escape From Death
- Tank of Corpses
- Skeleton’s Gibbet
- The Eyes of Horror
- City of Fearful Night
- New Strip! Keeping Up With the Joneses!
from The Barnacle Blog
- Mister Wonderful, Part 12
from FLOG!
- Pro-tech/anti-commie vid from the 1939 World’s Fair
from Boing Boing
- Gross Me Out And Win Free Books!
from Arflovers
- This Day in Arf History: Polly and her Pals Debuts
from Arflovers
- Grim in Barnacle Bill
from all kinds of stuff
- Our Young Folks Weekly Budget (January, 1871-September…
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Conspiracy Collating Party
from Big Time Attic
- A Few Minneapolis 24 Hour Comics Day Photos…
from Big Time Attic
- Motel Art Improvement Service by Jason Little
- The Shrunken Skull
- Dec. 7, 2007: It’s going south
- Chimps Briefly Escape By Snapping Enclosure Locks
from Monkeys In The News
- “This should be big news.” American Elf Re-Design;…
- Abner Dean
from Blog Flume
- Suiho Tagawa Slide Show
from Blog Flume
- The World Without Cerebus
from Blog Flume
- Herriman Saturday
from Stripper’s Guide
- Obscurity of the Day: Citizen Fixit
from Stripper’s Guide
- Obscurity of the Day: Mr. Stub
from Stripper’s Guide
- Ward Kimball- Escapader Cum Laude
from ALTERNATIVE COMIX
- Uncle Shelby’s Mother Goose
from ALTERNATIVE COMIX
- “View a blog”
from In This Corner
- Dec. 6, 2007: Calling Dr. Wertham
- Dave Cooper’s big piece
from The Cultural Magpie
- CR Review: The ACME Novelty Datebook 1995-2002
from The Comics Reporter
- Photos from film found in thrift store cameras
from Boing Boing
- Influence of Winsor McCay on cinema
from Boing Boing
- Raid uncovers 10 Commandments of the Mafia
from Boing Boing
- Automata for sale — papercraft, DIY and wooden
from Boing Boing
- Comics with Problems: “Captain Awareness”
from Boing Boing
- 1926 poster depicts human as a chemical plant
from Boing Boing
- Story of Stuff: 20 minute movie follows stuff from…
from Boing Boing
- Official 1898 baseball document filled with foul language
from Boing Boing
- Katzenjammer Kids Celebrates 110 Years
from SANDBOX WORLD
- Dec. 5, 2007: From turtles to gerbils
- WFMU’s Antique Phonograph Music Program from Dec 4,…
- Arthur Adams
- Dec. 4, 2007: The Comics Journal #287
Interesting Links: Cartoonist Holiday Cards from Hogan’s Alley
Interesting Links: December 4, 2007
- Dec. 3, 2007: Curse you, Boxerman!
- tchnlgy
- Cryptozoology with Loren Coleman and BBG’s Joel Johnson
from Boing Boing
- The Vinyl Frontier — documentary about vinyl toys
from Boing Boing
- Sesame Street DVD reissues intended for adults only
from Boing Boing
- BBtv: John Hodgman’s Mole Men / Cavalcade of Hobos
from Boing Boing
- Web site converts photos to vectors
from Boing Boing
- Vintage kid tattoo books for sale
from Boing Boing
- Gallery of junker-car air fresheners
from Boing Boing
- Secret underground temple seized by police
from Boing Boing
- Obscure retro-futuristic art
from Boing Boing
- BBtv — Laugh Out Loud Cats: The True History
from Boing Boing
- Guerrilla clockmakers fix famous Paris clock
from Boing Boing
- Voice of the London Underground canned for blogging…
from Boing Boing
- Amazon fights Fed’s request for names of book buyers
from Boing Boing
- Vintage photos from lostamerica.com
from Boing Boing
- Pixar’s funny EULA for Buy n’ Large
from Boing Boing
- EFF proves Comcast is screwing with BitTorrent, releases…
from Boing Boing
- Fun flash game – Chat Noir
from Boing Boing
- Dr. Fredric Wertham’s ‘What Parents Don’t Know About…
- Life of universe shortened by observing dark energy?
from Boing Boing
- Beatnik Comics. The early sixties were a swell time…
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Graham Annable’s Closet
- Lookybook: full children’s books online for free
- Vintage Kiddie Record Graphics
- Wacom Cintiq 12WX – LCD Sketchbook
- Alex Cox on “How to Sell Your Mini-Comic to Comic…
- The Trenton Doyle Handbook Vol. 1
from Book By Its Cover
- Sketchbook Series: Anders Nilsen
from Book By Its Cover
- More memories from Glenn Hauman
from THE BEAT
- Nov. 30, 2007: Signs of intelligent life
- MARVEL SCIENCE STORIES Pre-dating the first issue…
- Marvel Science Stories April-May / 1939 cover by Norman
- Marvel Science Stories August / 1940 cover by J. W….
- Frank R. Paul H. W. Wesso Frank R. paul
- Marvel Stories November / 1940 The interior illustrations…
- Simon & Kirby Simon & Kirby Simon & Kirby An early…
- Marvel Stories April / 1941 cover by J. W. Scott (the…
- Jack Kirby Alex Schomburg Alex Schomburg Jack Kirby…
- Uncanny Stories April / 1941 cover by H. J. Ward (attributed)
- Jack Kirby Alex Schomburg Jack Kirby Jack kirby
- Several Iron Ace & Sky Wolf splash pages by Fuje also…
- A batch of misc The Flying Dutchman splash pages by…
- Bob Fujitani (1920 ~ ) A terrific The Flying Dutchman…
- Jack Kirby (1917 ~1994) …a handful of covers from…
- Panels & Pictures: Constraint
from Madinkbeard
- *Number 225* * Bill Everett puts the bite on* Bill
- *Number 224* * The gold key* I want you to click…
- *Number 223* * Talking out of his ass* This is a…
- *Number 222* * Beyonders Kill!* Happy Thanksgiving!…
- *Number 221* * The Green Turtle* This story is by
- *Number 220* * The most beautiful thing in the galaxy…
- *Number 219* * Brother Rats* I haven’t shown you…
- *Number 218* * Flash Kicks Axis!* This is a followup…
- *Number 217* * Do do that voodoo…* Jerry Robinson…
- *Number 216* * Ghost Of Guam* *Ten-hut!* Specialist
- *Number 215* * Modest maid, stalwart soldier, dastardly
- New Strip! Mr. Twee Deedle
from The Barnacle Blog
- Thought for the day
from THE BEAT
- Thought for the day
from THE BEAT
- Thought for the day
from THE BEAT
- READ: Kirby Monsters!
from THE BEAT
- NO. 703: THE MUSEUM OF LOVELESS FUN
from The Woodring Monitor
- Longevity Drugs Used to Be a Sci-Fi Pipe Dream
from Beyond the Beyond
- The Crawling Eye (TRAILER)
- The Harder They Fall
- Where Monsters Prowl
- DANCE THE EONS AWAY
from The Woodring Monitor
- Obscurity of the Day: Tiny Tinkles
from Stripper’s Guide
- Obscurity of the Day: Yankee Rangers
from Stripper’s Guide
- *Capacity #7 by Theo Ellsworth* If you’re not familiar…
- ORION
from PULPHOPE
- SPECIAL FORCES #2 is DONE!
- ComicMix Radio with Mike Raub
- Primer for Prophets prints now on eBay
from Jim Flora
- Organizational Quotient
from Jim Flora
- John Bell and Invaders from the North
from Inkstuds
- Greg Irons
from Inkstuds
- Let A Deck Of Cards Be My Tombstone
- Theory: CGI Animators Should THINK Like Artists
- Marvel and DC take legal action against comics torrent…
from Comics Commentary
- Comics Christmas Shopping Update
from The Comics Reporter
- BOING
from good evening
- Samson, Vol. 1, No. 14
from Geeklog Site
- Man Comics, Vol. 1, no. 5
from Geeklog Site
- Preparations for the Imminent Zombie Apocalypse
- Announcement: Love & Rockets moves to annual book…
from FLOG!
- Mike Allred does Fletcher Hanks
from FLOG!
- New Release: Popeye Vol. 2: “Well Blow Me Down!”
from FLOG!
- Jason previewed
from FLOG!
- Mister Wonderful, Part 11
from FLOG!
- Millionaire, Crumb, Porygon, Vera, and DashShawRayFenwickTimLane
from FLOG!
- 19th Century Schoolbooks
from MetaFilter
- Marvel Comics is coming !
from The Ephemerist
- “Boycott”
from In This Corner
- Nov. 29, 2007: A midwinter night’s Dullsville
- Strummin’ On A Bass Banjo!
- The Peanut Vendor!




