Here is an Everett True strip I scanned from November 7, 1924. Go here to see more Outbursts of Everett True on this site. If you don’t get this (I didn’t), refer to this.

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.

Here’s another wonderful and weird Fleischer Color Classics cartoon. This one has a fantastic soundtrack featuring Smiley Burnette’s song Mama Don’t Allow No Music Playing Round Here. I don’t know who performs it in the cartoon… if you do, please let me know in the comments and I’ll update this post. I’ve extracted the song to an mp3, which you can download here.

You can get all but one of the Color Classics on this great DVD set called Somewhere in Dreamland:

Unfortunately, the print of this one is particularly beat up, so it is only included in the “Lost Episodes” documentary on the disc rather than being easily available from the main menu.

Read more about this cartoon on The Big Cartoon Database.

Happy 91st birthday yesterday to the deceased King of Comics, Jack Kirby. Tom Spurgeon at the Comics Reporter has a mind-blowing collection of his imagery posted in his memory. Click the above image I grabbed from there (from the wonderfully bizarre 70’s one-shot The Dingbats of Danger Street… a Kirby attempt to bring the Dead-End Kids into the Seventies).

• Kevin and Zander’s City Pages Cartoons about the Republican National Convention are in Print!
  from Big Time Attic
• Little Nemo 1913-01-19
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Tour of Horror / Rivals unto Death!
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Rub-a-dub-dub. Thursday story day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• King’s X
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Number 369 Supermouse goes ape!
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• “The Banquet of Thuz” (cont.)
  from The Comic Book Catacombs
• Malu the Slave Girl in “The Banquet of Thuz”
  from The Comic Book Catacombs
• The R∑@l W@tchm∑n!
  from datajunkie
• The Art of Romance, Chapter 9, More Romance
  from Simon and Kirby – Jack Kirby Museum
• Burning Building Comix #1-#2
  from Top Shelf 2.0 Webcomics
• Oh No! It’s A Giant Monster!!
  from datajunkie
• Inversions
  from Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities
• Jack Kirby, The King of Comics, Would Have Been 91 Years Old Today
  from CR Briefings

Today’s featured item: The Acme Novelty Warehouse, a online bibliography and photo attempt to archive everything Chris Ware has ever done (including constructed versions of all of his numerous papercraft projects, and many amazing and exceedingly rare items I had never seen or heard of before). Above is an image of a toy Ware made of his seemingly obsessive-compulsive friend Matthew McClintock (whose site should be seen to be believed). Click the image above to go to the Acme Novetly Warehouse.

And while I am mentioning the talented Mr. Ware, I will also note that the Fantagraphics blog, Flog, points us to a one day only McSweeney’s sale on back issues that includes the indispensible Chris Ware edited comics issue (#13). For five bucks. All of their in-print back issues are five bucks today! This is a teeny-tiny fraction of cover price, so cheap for the beauty of what you get it will make you feel guilty for getting it that cheap. Click the image above to go order.

• Cases of 2,000 skulls
  from Boing Boing
• Galaxia
  from Michael Sporn Animation – Splog
• The Disturbing Origins of 5 Common Nursery Rhymes
  from Cracked: All Posts
• Technique: Musical Timing Rediscovered
  from ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive
• Great Movie Posters
  from Hairy Green Eyeball
• Aug. 29, 2008: Dullsville, my sweet Dullsville
  from Journalista – the news weblog of The Comics Journal
• So & So’s Button Gallery
  from busybeaver.net
• mc.clintock.com
  from mc.clintock.com
• Acme Novelty Archive v3.0
  from acmenoveltyarchive.org
• Hulu – Lost Highway – Full Episodes and Clips streaming online for free
  from hulu.com
• The Comics Journal Message Board :: View topic – 20 French Cartoonists Who Dragged Eurocomics into Adulthood
  from The Comics Journal Message Board
• Ridiculously cheap McSweeney’ses
  from FLOG! Entries
• And there was great rejoicing…Ogden Whitney collection
  from THE BEAT
• Ancient Mayan underworld discovered in Mexico
  from Boing Boing
• Fleischer “Units”
  from Uncle John’s Crazy Town
• The Lonely Toilet-Cleaner Dreams of a Better Life in Raymond Briggs’s Comic ‘Gentleman Jim’
  from nymag.com
• Cat Angel or Cat Demon?
  from Little Hokum Rag

I ran across the above photo from of a Minneapolis comic convention from 1982, taken by Comics Buyer’s Guide founder Alan Light. Denis Kitchen is seen digging through comics on the left, and I am pretty damn sure that is a very young Michael Drivas, proprietor of the excellent Big Brain Comics on the right. You can see all of Mr. Light’s photos from the Minneapolis 1982 Comic Con here, a set of photos from the 1982 San Diego Comicon here, a set of old photos of cartoonists here, and the rest of his photo sets here.

When I was a kid (and for that matter, ten years ago) if you wanted to read comics, you had to buy them. They were rarely reprinted and if you didn’t buy them when they came out, they only got more expensive in the back issue bins. When they were reprinted as books, libraries rarely carried them. If you wanted to read old comics, they were rarely reprinted and you to pay out the nose for original copies.

Today comics are frequently reprinted as books to the point where it rarely makes sense to buy comic books in “pamphlet” format (with the notable exception of anthologies, which are rarely reprinted).

If I miss a comic in the store when it comes out, it usually gets less expensive to buy, and then I can frequently buy it in a superior book format. If I use the internet to buy comics (not recommended… support your local comic shop!), it can get ridiculously cheap, particularly if the book isn’t new.

A lot of libraries now do a pretty good job of stocking comics. There are numerous comics I wouldn’t consider buying, but don’t mind reading for free courtesy of the library.

Old comics are currently undergoing a golden age of reprinting projects, and items that were previously seen only by handfuls of people are now seen by thousands. Although the vast majority are still not reprinted, and probably never will be, there is an amazing wealth of old material available in new books in print.

If you can’t find examples of an old comic in print, it is not unlikely you may be able to find scans of it on the internet… more are out there all the time, usually for free. You can find the new stuff out there too for free too, of course, if you’re inclined to do so and not inhibited by the idea of modern cartoonists needing to make a living.

It has never been easier to have access to so many fantastic comics. Those of you new to reading comics can be thankful you will probably never have to lift a long box of comics.

UPDATE: I emailed Michael Drivas and he denies the young imp in the above photo is him, as he was reading all his comics for free and returning them via the distributor via his old man’s drug store at the time. However, he also said I could start whatever rumors I wanted… so it is Drivas all right.

Here is an Everett True strip I scanned from November 6, 1924. 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.

Here’s another wonderful and weird Fleischer Color Classics cartoon.

You can get all but one of the Color Classics on this great DVD set called Somewhere in Dreamland:

Read more about this cartoon on The Big Cartoon Database.

Today I’ll feature more from the great A.D. Condo of Everett True fame courtesy once again of our friends at Barnacle Press. Click the above image to see more examples of Condo’s Diana Dillpickles.

• Infinite Kung Fu, part 2
  from Top Shelf 2.0 Webcomics
• Emergency Mouse
  from Michael Sporn Animation – Splog
• QUINCY by Ted Shearer
  from Mike Lynch Cartoons
• Hardly Boys Wednesday Ad Day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Little Nemo 1913-01-12
  from Comic Strip Library News
• It only hurts when I don’t laugh, Doc
  from Hairy Green Eyeball
• Meet the Nephews
  from ThadBlog
• Bruno Bear: Making History
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Samuel Spaniel in Shoes
  from Nedor-A-Day
• KING KOJO with Illustrations by Marge Part 2
  from Mike Lynch Cartoons
• Free Nate Neal Comics
  from FLOG! Entries
• Arthur on UG Comix
  from FLOG! Entries
• Comic bio of Jack Parsons, rocket scientist and magician
  from Boing Boing
• Four More
  from Top Shelf 2.0 Webcomics
• Lots of fun stuff from Scott Campbell
  from Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog
• Krazy Komic Strips
  from Amazing Facts…and Beyond!
• Guillotine!
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• In Praise of Dennis: A Rant.
  from FLOG! Entries
• “Let’s go to the Minn. Renaissance Festival!”
  from In This Corner
• Alan Moore’s “Shocking Futures”
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Little Nemo 1912-12-29
  from Comic Strip Library News
• The Beast from the Deep!
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• The Fighting Yank Against the Mighty Atomic Bomb
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Fighting Yank #17 cover
  from Nedor-A-Day
• The Prankster
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Number 368 American Pig!
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• ANTOÑETE EL DECIDIDO
  from Viñetas
• SUPERMAN EN EL ALMANQUE PARA 1941 DE “CICLÓN EL SUPERHOMBRE”
  from Viñetas
• ¡Viva La Difference Del Charlton!
  from datajunkie
• Defining Who You Are
  from Introspective Comics
• selections from “Nellie The Nurse:” Four-Color #1304, 1962
  from Stanley Stories
• Bash! Bash! Bash!
  from Myrant
• Go, Look: Fort Thunder Stuff Archived at The Wayback Machine
  from CR Briefings
• Go, Look: Thing Sketch Extravaganza
  from CR Briefings
• Two Halves Make A Lot. Monday Cartoon Day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Scrappy Monday!
  from Uncle John’s Crazy Town
• John Wilson Bengough (1851-1923)
  from Punch in Canada
• Yogi Bear: Sunday Comics – Gene Hazelton (?)
  from comicrazys
• Little Nemo 1912-12-22
  from Comic Strip Library News
• The Green Witch
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Captain George presents Captain Marvel
  from Hairy Green Eyeball
• More Asshole Donald
  from ThadBlog
• Sparks of Life (courtesy of THOIA)
  from The Comic Book Catacombs
• Supermouse: The Treasure of Captain Bones
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Coo-Coo Comics #1 cover
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Variety IS the spice of LIFE!
  from datajunkie
• Swinging with the oldies. Tuesday newspaper strip.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Minneapolis Jam: August 2008
  from CONSPIRE!
• Go, Look: Lynd Ward’s Frankenstein
  from CR Briefings
• Drawing Power.
  from Blog Flume
• UFO’s from Outer Space [Yeah, it's another re-post!]
  from datajunkie
• Space Mouse: The Penal Colony
  from Uncle Ernie’s Creature Ink
• I Just Sort Of Like These Moebius Covers
  from CR Briefings
• Chocolate Cheeks for 8/15 & 8/22/08
  from FLOG! Entries
• WHICH WAY TO MECCA, JACK?
  from The Woodring Monitor
• summer’s gonna turn into fall
  from Doot Doot Garden Blog
• Sketchbook Set
  from FLOG! Entries
• Jonathan Bennett draws RAW
  from FLOG! Entries
• Questionable material Friday comic book day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Skywald Repost-O-Rama!
  from datajunkie
• Little Nemo 1912-12-01
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Death Flower
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Puppetry of the gentils Saturday leftover day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Petey Buys Some Pants
  from cul de sac
• Massachusetts Ploughman Comics
  from Yesterday’s Papers Archive
• Existential fairy tale: John Stanley writes Raggedy Ann!
  from Stanley Stories
• Black Terror: Out of the Little Known Amazon Jungles
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Road Runner Tries to Kill Coyote
  from ThadBlog
• Kirby Speak-Out Series / Pussycat #1 [Re-Post]
  from datajunkie
• The War Wheel
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Little Nemo 1912-12-08
  from Comic Strip Library News
• That’s My Pop!: Moon Mullins #3 1948 – Milt Gross
  from comicrazys
• Spunky: The Mystery of the Mirage
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Little Ugh: Uh-Uh Better Not
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Today’s Poor Almanack
  from cul de sac
• Would you buy a used car from these characters?
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Number 366 Dick Briefer’s Yankee Longago
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Return from the Grave!
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Oswald Rabbit and Toby in another freaky fairy-tale
  from Stanley Stories
• Little Nemo 1912-12-15
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Romance-Au-Go-Go!
  from datajunkie
• AT and T Taking Over
  from Mark Kausler’s CatBlog
• Even more Diana Dillpickles!
  from The Barnacle Blog
• Calvert H Smith
  from Yesterday’s Papers Archive
• Cartoon monstrosities!
  from Hairy Green Eyeball
• Crime Crushers: They Call Themselves the “We-Do-It” Boys
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Where Mummies Prowl
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Family Mixup
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Number 367 Double Mummy Monday!
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Malu the Slave Girl (cont.)
  from The Comic Book Catacombs
• Malu the Slave Girl from Slave Girl Comics #1 (Avon;1949)
  from The Comic Book Catacombs
• The return of Diana Dillpickles!
  from The Barnacle Blog
• Spaghetti
  from Introspective Comics

Check out Feed the Head, a flash toy I had not seen previously by Vector Park creator/cartoonist/painter Patrick Smith by clicking the above image.

• Web Cartoonist Business Model
  from Mike Lynch Cartoons
• Food that eats itself
  from Boing Boing
• Crows recognize, and remember, human faces
  from Boing Boing
• Bolt: Storyboard vs. CG
  from Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation
• Cool book: Havana before Castro
  from Boing Boing
• Yerkes Researchers Find Monkeys Enjoy Giving to Others
  from Monkeys In The News
• Escapee Monkey Lured Home With A Peanut
  from Monkeys In The News
• Jack
  from news from me
• * One* of Wally Wood’s *few* pulp illustrations
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• *Planet Stories*
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• Some Things Milt Gross Excels At
  from John K Stuff
• Ladies in Fur
  from Gorilla Men
• CR Newsmaker: Sammy Harkham
  from CR Briefings
• The 5 Scientific Experiments Most Likely to End the World
  from Cracked: All Posts
• A Life of Mystery: only $12
  from FLOG! Entries
• Weissman on Schulz
  from FLOG! Entries
• Interview: Jews and American Comics Editor, Paul Buhle
  from The Daily Cross Hatch
• Design: Reluctant Dragon and Pinocchio Model Sheets
  from ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive
• Bryan Ballinger’s process
  from Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog
• Small gallery of old comic book ads
  from Boing Boing
• Time lapse video of slime mold and mushrooms
  from Boing Boing
• Eddie Campbell
  from Inkstuds
• Aug. 28, 2008: Begging hat in hand
  from Journalista – the news weblog of The Comics Journal
• The Comics Journal Message Board :: View topic – Comics Oddities
  from The Comics Journal Message Board
• The Comics Journal Message Board :: View topic – Did Jack Kirby really slaughter a room full of Nazis?
  from The Comics Journal Message Board
• Design: Early UPA Model Sheets
  from ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive
• Comrades in Arms
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Recent Press
  from transatlantis
• Aug. 27, 2008: Aggle aggle aggle!
  from Journalista – the news weblog of The Comics Journal
• WFMU’s Antique Phonograph Music Program from Aug 26, 2008
  from WFMU’s Antique Phonograph Music Program
• Mexican Lobby Cards
  from Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation
• Photos from abandoned 1901 hydroelectric power plant
  from Boing Boing
• Tytla Grumpy
  from Michael Sporn Animation – Splog
• Interview: Nate Powell Pt. 2
  from The Daily Cross Hatch
• COSMOCOPIA
  from FLOG! Entries
• Go, Read: 20 French Cartoonists Who Dragged Eurocomics into Adulthood
  from CR Briefings
• OTBP: Will Eisner’s Expressive Anatomy For Comics and Narrative
  from CR Briefings
• Illustration: Frank Reynolds Paints Pickwick
  from ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive
• Charles Robinson 1870 ~ 1937
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• More Gallery Pics
  from PUNY blog
• Aug. 26, 2008: Virgin deflowered
  from Journalista – the news weblog of The Comics Journal
• Lying In The Gutters – 8-25-2008
  from Lying In The Gutters
• Bizarre and Beautiful
  from Little Hokum Rag
• Electric Politics | EP Podcast: Present at the (Cartoon) Creation
  from electricpolitics.com
• Feed The Head
  from feedthehead.net
• Go, Look: North Korean Propaganda
  from CR Briefings
• Mother Jones interactive military presence map
  from Boing Boing
• Good Bye in Stores Now.
  from Drawn and Quarterly
• Cory Doctorow Pt. 2 [of 2]
  from The Daily Cross Hatch
• Reasons To Be Cheerful: week of 08/22/08
  from I’m Learning To Share!
• Snugglepot and Cuddlepie
  from BibliOdyssey
• Diebold admits a glitch…
  from Dylan’s blog
• Lullaby Land – the movie
  from Michael Sporn Animation – Splog
• Marvellous magazine ads of 1904
  from Boing Boing
• *a*ge 53 and still retrieving books from my parents
  from The Fate of the Artist
• FFF Results Post #132 — Fifty-Plus
  from CR Briefings
• Keep Smiling: 1902
  from Shorpy :: History in HD – ShorpyBlog
• Filipino Costumes
  from BibliOdyssey
• Pinocchio moments
  from Michael Sporn Animation – Splog
• Roach Clipped
  from news from me
• CR Sunday Interview: Danny Hellman
  from CR Briefings
• Kids can’t “go out and play” anymore
  from Boing Boing
• Boy’s Herald First Number
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Boy’s Herald Second Number
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• *now for something completely different…* *Pin Backs*
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• Kay Nielsen 1886 ~ 1957
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• Weak Tash
  from ThadBlog
• “30% More Commercial” show photos…
  from PUNY blog
• Aug. 25, 2008: All’s well that ends
  from Journalista – the news weblog of The Comics Journal
• YouTube – Authors@Google: David Hajdu
  from youtube.com
• Filmography: Terrytoons’ Catnip Capers
  from ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive
• panopticist: Eveready Harton in Buried Treasure, One of the First Pornographic Cartoons Ever Made
  from panopticist.com
• Mind Control Made Easy
  from Boing Boing

Here is an Everett True strip I scanned from November 5, 1924. 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.