Here’s an example I scanned of Joe Jinks with the header strip It Seems That- from 1929 or 1930 by Vic Forsythe.

Click the image to view the full strip.

See I’m Falling in Love With Someone by Vic Forsythe at Stripper’s Guide.

See The Little Woman and Way Out West by Vic Forsythe at Stripper’s Guide.

Click here to read about Vic Forsythe at lambiek.net.

Click here to read more about Joe Jinks at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

See some Joe Jinks originals at comicstripfan.com.

A great, great short by Ladislaw Starewicz, The Mascot, in three parts. I posted a short excerpt from this cartoon previously… this is the full cartoon at a much better quality. The Mascot is one of the most bizarre and beautiful puppet animations I’ve ever seen. And it has a monkey! Don’t miss it!

Part 1

Part 2

Part3

Read more about Ladislaw Starewicz at Animation Heaven and Hell.

Read more about Ladislaw Starewicz at Wikipedia.

See a tribute site to Ladislaw Starewicz made by his granddaughter.

For more old cartoons with monkeys, go here.

Scans Daily has recently had a number of posts of comics written by the great John Stanley. I’ve been reading a whole lot of Stanley’s brilliant Little Lulu comics recently with my daughter, and they are some of the best kids’ comics ever written. So great is Little Lulu that is has overshadowed Stanley’s other comics work in most comics aficionados minds.

It is interesting to see some more of his other work… his work was rarely credited at the companies he worked for, and I hadn’t really realized what a variety of work he did.

If you want more, note the wonderful (and very affordable) series of Little Lulu books that was recently published by Dark Horse Comics, and also note that Drawn and Quarterly recently announced that they will be publishing much of Stanley’s other comics work. Click the image below to go to the latest Stanley post on Scans Daily.

• More John Stanley comics
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Jeanie baby. Thursday story day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Frankie Fiction: His Amazing Adventures with Story Book Heroes
  from Nedor-A-Day
• “Delicious!”
  from In This Corner
• WTF Japan: part 2
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Event: Meet Ralph Bakshi At The San Diego ComicCon
  from ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive
• Jungle Definitions 1914
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Images of Sand
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Thagor De La Selva!
  from datajunkie
• Just now discovering Tinkle Comics, thank-you… (1985)
  from I’m Learning To Share!
• Nick Mag Comics Archives
  from THE BEAT
• The Sad Sack
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Go, Bookmark: Kate Beaton
  from CR Briefings
• The Black Terror: In Defense of Russia
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Black Terror #1 Cover
  from Nedor-A-Day
• The Corpse That Lived!
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• The Hands of Don José
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Mangy’s Origin Story
  from Mark Kausler’s CatBlog
• *Number 330* * The Day That Vanished*
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Ready when you are. Wednesday Ad day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Archie & Mehitabel 1936
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Obscurity of the Day: Kids
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Ed “Big Daddy” Roth Collectibles & Ephemera
  from PCL LinkDump
• The Hole in the Wall, part 5
  from Top Shelf 2.0 Webcomics
• Episode 487
  from dykestowatchoutfor.com
• Episode 488
  from dykestowatchoutfor.com
• Latest Episode, #486
  from dykestowatchoutfor.com
• The Leon Tapes
  from Amazing Facts…and Beyond!

• Jacques Vallée’s Messengers of Deception
  from Boing Boing
• Future releases revealed
  from FLOG! Entries
• Designing devices to be remotely overridden is a bad idea
  from Boing Boing
• Orwell’s 1984 as a pulp novel
  from Boing Boing
• My story about the next 150 years of bookselling: The Right Book
  from Boing Boing
• Living In the New Golden Age
  from comiXology | Articles & Interviews
• June 26, 2008: Following up
  from Journalista – the news weblog of The Comics Journal
• The Holiday Shop
  from Shorpy :: History in HD – High-Definition History
• Matt Duffin’s Art
  from Looky
• Obama’s support for the FISA “compromise”
  from Boing Boing
• FCC wants a magic, porn-free wireless Internet
  from Boing Boing
• Copyright renewal records for US books finally online
  from Boing Boing
• Twelve Mostly Overlooked Comics Published In The Last Twelve Years or So
  from The Comics Reporter
• Jules Guerin 1866 ~ 1946 *Egypt & Its Monuments*
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• Intrepideers Comic Roughs
  from tim sievert’s virtual news log
• Featured Work
  from Eighthourday
• June 25, 2008: Beat the press
  from Journalista – the news weblog of The Comics Journal
• WFMU’s Antique Phonograph Music Program from Jun 24, 2008
  from WFMU’s Antique Phonograph Music Program
• Lorenzo Homar
  from BibliOdyssey
• Children’s Book Illustrators and Illustrations – nocloo.com
• Itchy McItchy
  from MetaFilter
• PHOTO IN THE NEWS: Frogs Pierce Skin With Claws of Bone
  from National Geographic News
• Rest in Peace Kermit Love
  from PuppetVision Blog
• Illustration: Dulac’s Hans Christian Andersen
  from ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive
• Linnean collection of insects online
  from Boing Boing
• Alex Niño @ Image
  from THE BEAT
• The St. James Sessions
  from WFMU’s Beware of the Blog
• Large Hadron Collider probably won’t destroy Earth
  from Boing Boing
• Harper’s Weekly
  from Boing Boing
• Something you won’t see on the Popeye DVDs…
  from CartoonsOnFilm
• Book Expo America 2008
  from B o n e v i l l e
• De Luxe Groceteria
  from Shorpy :: History in HD – ShorpyBlog
• Nicolas de Crécy blogs
  from Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog
• Lego Digital Designer Builds Your Lego Masterpiece
  from Lifehacker
• Movie for a Friday Evening
  from HOBOTOPIA
• Plethora
  from BibliOdyssey
• Today’s Video Link
  from news from me
• Explaining
  from Neil Gaiman’s Journal
• Creepy Kitsch
  from Schadenfreudian Therapy
• You want Moore? You got it!
  from The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log
• Length Not Wearying
  from = VITAPHONE VARIETIES =
• Illustrations from McGuffey’s Fourth Eclectic Reader, 1896 edition
  from I’m Learning To Share!
• Alice Boards 3
  from Michael Sporn Animation – Splog
• Mary Blair Boards
  from Michael Sporn Animation – Splog
• On the Hero by Night Fiasco
  from TalkAboutComics Blog
• cool 50s sci fi covers by Powers
  from all kinds of stuff
• Loose Monkey Reported In Lafayette, Indiana
  from Monkeys In The News

Here’s another example I scanned of Sallie Slick and Her Surprising Aunt Amelia by Jean Mohr from 1902. Aunt Amelia is rather like the female Foxy Grandpa.

Click the image to view the full strip.

Read more about Jean Mohr at Lambiek.

J – Oatari Sora No Entaku (The Plane Cabby’s Lucky Day) (1932), by Teizo Kato. This bizarre cartoon is made more bizarre by the animator not animating random stuff he apparently doesn’t feel like animating, or doesn’t feel competent to animate… arms stretch for no reason other than wanting to avoid drawing a walk cycle… inanimate objects move on their own accord. Instead of putting a hat on, our hero shoots a hat out of his ass and it floats effortlessly onto his head.

Another embarrassment of riches for you… it seems like the amount of cool old scans online has been increasing exponentially lately. Again, really hard to pick one item to feature. I mean, Marc Bell has a blog!

However, I’m guessing the link most of my readers will be the most drawn to today is again courtesy of Stephen Worth at the utterly fantastic ASIFA Hollywood Animation Archive blog. He has posted three old Sunday funnies sections in their entirety, along with an essay wondering what the hell happened to make newspaper comics sink to the depths they have sunk to today. Lots of beautiful stuff, scanned large and clean. Pictured below, a panel from Clifford McBride’s Napoleon, one of the many, many comics featured. Click it to see the full post!

• Rider in the Storm
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Murder Mansion
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Rhoda Trail: The Mysterious Stranger
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Lumped In Tuesday strip day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Friday Distraction: Cowboy Comics
  from CR Briefings
• Chocolate Cheeks for 6/20/08
  from FLOG! Entries
• It’s that Gahan Wilson boy again
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Daredevil Battles Hitler (Part 5) – Belief-defying Air Stunts
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Daredevil Battles Hitler (Part 4) – Super-Science to the Rescue
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Soony: Storyboards – Jim Tyer
  from comicrazys
• Fingers of Doom!
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Foxy Lady Saturday leftover day
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• *Vampirella* 112 issues ~ Sept/1969-March/1983
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• Herriman Saturday
  from Stripper’s Guide
• John Stanley Knows Serious Business
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Soft Boiled
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Tara: Satellite of the Moon Spiders!
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Frazetta’s “Werewolf!”
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Barney Rooster – Frank Frazetta
  from comicrazys
• Romance of Death
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Death While the Cat’s Away
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Serpent of Doom
  from Nedor-A-Day
• *Number 328* * Saucer Man!*
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Ask me anything. Sunday leftover day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Jim Ivey’s Sunday Comics
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Tubby the Scout: Ribtickler #3 1959 – Artist Unknown
  from comicrazys
• The Many Lives of Jim Corrigan – Part 1
  from datajunkie
• John Stanley Knows Kids and Beatniks
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• The Phantom Ship
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• The Fighting Yank vs. Blitz
  from Nedor-A-Day
• *Number 329* * * * No high-hattin’ for Hatlo!*
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Obscurity of the Day: The Little Woman, Way Out West and Jimmy And The Tiger
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Short post, tall tales. Monday cartoon day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Lefty by Tom Kay 1948
  from Punch in Canada
• Peterkin Pottle
  from Golden Reading
• What America Thinks III
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• What America Thinks II
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• What America Thinks 1941
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• *Cover art by* *Frazetta* The full painting
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• *Cover art by* *Gray Morrow* * **Art by* *Roy G. Krenkel*
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• Meathaus Week on Vulture: Read a Complete Story by Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca
  from Vulture — Entertainment, Music, Culture, Thea
• *Eerie* 139 issues ~ Sept/1965-Feb/1983 *
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• Warum
  from Top Shelf 2.0 Webcomics
• October 1960 STARE Magazine Cartoons
  from Mike Lynch Cartoons
• Dorman Henry Smith (1892-1956)
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Some POGO right now sounds good
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• The State of Cartooning: Newspaper Comics
  from ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive
• Treasury of Terror 1966
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Daredevil Battles Hitler (Part 3) – Hot Jungle Action
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Crime Crushers: The Case of the Dead Dog
  from Nedor-A-Day
• The Crawling Horror vs. The Thing Behind the Wall
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• John Stanley is awesome, here’s why
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• *Number 327* * Fremont Frog
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Hey Presto! Friday comic book day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• What Is Dash Shaw’s Vision for ‘Ghost Rider’? Plus: An Exclusive Preview of Bottomless Belly Button
  from Vulture — Entertainment, Music, Culture
• Meathaus Week on Vulture: Read a Complete Story by Farel Dalrymple
  from Vulture — Entertainment, Music, Culture
• Meathaus Week on Vulture: Read a Complete Story by Zohar Lazar
  from Vulture — Entertainment, Music, Culture
• Truncate, Suffer!, Lime, Suede, Etc
  from The Canada Council For The Arts MARC BELL Dept
• “Hi, It’s Me Again” and “Trippah!!!”
  from The Canada Council For The Arts MARC BELL Dept
• Shrimpies For Sale
  from The Canada Council For The Arts MARC BELL Dept
• Shrimpies and Shrimpies For Sale
  from The Canada Council For The Arts MARC BELL Dept
• Welcome To Mennonite Dan’s 1st Annual Ribfest: BEFORE and After
  from The Canada Council For The Arts MARC BELL Dept
• Amazing: Floor Folk BEFORE and AFTER!
  from The Canada Council For The Arts MARC BELL Dept
• Absolutely Stupendous: Greetings From Calgary BEFORE…
  from The Canada Council For The Arts MARC BELL Dept
• HOLY BANANAS: Avacore (this is only a digital representation)
  from The Canada Council For The Arts MARC BELL Dept
• SIMPLY SCRUMPTIOUS: The State Of Thungs
  from The Canada Council For The Arts MARC BELL Dept
• Q: Whut The? A: It’s “Society”
  from The Canada Council For The Arts MARC BELL Dept
• So Very Interesting: “Worn Tuff Elbow” Before and After
  from The Canada Council For The Arts MARC BELL Dept
• Thurber’s New Natural History
  from Looky
• ONE MOMENT, SIR!
  from Mike Lynch Cartoons
• Cave Adventure, part 2
  from Top Shelf 2.0 Webcomics
• Heroes Con, this weekend
  from The Ephemerist

• The Adventures of Quisp: Cereal Serial – Spumco
  from comicrazys
• Jules Feiffer talks Explainers
  from FLOG! Entries
• Tall Tale Features » Berke Breathed Speaks! (Sort of)
  from Tall Tale Features
• Paul Gravett: Article – Time For Heroes
  from Paul Gravett
• GOOD’s guide to secret societies
  from Boing Boing
• House passes wiretap telcom immunity bill
  from Boing Boing
• Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo
  from Boing Boing
• Sketchbook #61
  from FLOG! Entries
• MPAA sez, “We shouldn’t have to prove infringement…
  from Boing Boing
• Five Link A Go Go
  from CR Briefings
• Shipping children by postal mail: illegal since 1913
  from Boing Boing
• News of Yore 1952: Don’t Tread On Me
  from Stripper’s Guide
• June 24, 2008: Sucker by day
  from Journalista – the news weblog of The Comics Journal
• George Carlin Dies at 71
  from Vulture — Entertainment, Music, Culture
• Interview: Ralph Bakshi Pt. 1
  from The Daily Cross Hatch
• Goodbye, George Carlin
  from Boing Boing
• George Carlin, RIP
  from Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation
• June Dr. Sketchy’s drawings
  from Scary Terry’s World
• Lemur’s Scent Found To Carry More Information Than Thought
  from Monkeys In The News
• Sterilised Himachal Monkeys Pregnant
  from Monkeys In The News
• Great Ape Trust Bonobos Nervous, But Secure From Flood Waters
  from Monkeys In The News
• Kerala Monkey Doubles As A Shepherd
  from Monkeys In The News
• Shooting Stars Seen From a Balloon
  from THE BALLOONIST
• George
  from news from me
• Bing Crosby coloring book
  from PCL LinkDump
• GRINS AND SMILES AND GIGGLES AND LAUGHS
  from Stephen DeStefano
• The Comics Journal Message Board :: View topic – George Carlin Gone
  from The Comics Journal Message Board
• Lying In The Gutters – 6-23-2008
  from Lying In The Gutters
• Man declares island (pop. 1) to be a new nation
  from Boing Boing
• George Lakoff: neuroscience of politics
  from Boing Boing
• 1950s Record Store
  from Shorpy :: History in HD – ShorpyBlog
• Cuteness overload
  from Neil Gaiman’s Journal
• What America Thinks IV
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Red Ralph; Or, The Daughter of Night
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Mounties in the Comics: Dick Daring (UK) 1958
  from Punch in Canada
• long ago and far away…
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• The Book of Accidents
  from Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities
• Joseph Christian Leyendecker 1874 ~ 1951
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• June 23, 2008: Kremlinology
  from Journalista – the news weblog of The Comics Journal
• shoveling away
  from Doot Doot Garden Blog
• strip mind – bookforum.com / in print
  from Book Forum
• Japanese Animators Unionize
  from Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation
• Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Inglorious Bastards’ Will Be…
  from Vulture — Entertainment, Music, Culture, Thea
• Newsapictorama with Kim Deitch
  from FLOG! Entries
• Missed It: Donjon At 10 Videos
  from CR Briefings
• Missed It: Vaughn Bode Interview
  from CR Briefings
• OTBP: Neil Gaiman/Todd Klein Print
  from CR Briefings
• First Cul De Sac Collection To Feature Foreword By Bill Watterson
  from CR Briefings
• The Eagle_Fire Garfield Randomizer
  from Doug Shaw
• Marc Bell is all for “granting”
  from Drawn and Quarterly
• Danny Hellman
  from Inkstuds
• Happy Accident to Happy Trails!
  from Arflovers
• Birth Marx
  from news from me
• Printer’s Row Chicago
  from Drawn and Quarterly
• More Bambi Bits
  from Michael Sporn Animation – Splog
• 6th foot found is a hoax
  from Boing Boing
• Review of Jack Kirby’s OMAC
  from Boing Boing
• Water ice found on Mars
  from Boing Boing
• Don Rosa January 2008, part 1
  from Frank Stajano’s Comics Podcast
• Don Rosa January 2008, part 2
  from Frank Stajano’s Comics Podcast
• Comics Time: Cartoon Dialectics Vol. 1
  from Attentiondeficitdisorderly Too Flat
• June 20, 2008: Casual Friday
  from Journalista – the news weblog of The Comics Journal
• National Association of Comics Art Educators – Comics and Graphic Novels in the Classroom
  from teachingcomics.org
• Happy Birthday To You’s complex, sordid copyright…
  from Boing Boing
• Brian Romero’s Zero Dollar Bill
  from Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog
• CR Review: Great Expectations
  from CR Briefings
• Vintage Cartoon Trade Ads
  from Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation
• Lotte Reiniger (1899 -1981)
  from Little Hokum Rag
• By the Sleepy Lagoon
  from Jim Flora

I’ve added the ability to put polls on the site. I will use them now to definitively answer the question you have all been wondering…

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Here’s an example I scanned of Sallie Slick and Her Surprising Aunt Amelia from 1902 by Jean Mohr. According to Lambiek, Jean Mohr was one of the earliest female cartoonists. A little more context for Jean Mohr can be found in this article by Trina Robbins, author of numerous books on women in comics.

Click the image to view the full strip.