TODAY’S FEATURED ITEM:
Hogan’s Alley has a wonderful gallery of full-color topper strips courtesy of Bill Blackbeard as a supplement to the latest issue of their always wonderful magazine (#16)…. there are some other great supplements at the link as well, as usual. Topper or header strips, for those who don’t know, are secondary comic strips that used to be published in conjunction with the main strip back when cartoonists were afforded an entire page of a Sunday newspaper to practice their craft on.
Most of these wonderful strips are largely forgotten today, and many are quite wonderful… examples of some of my favorite header strips are featured… Otto Messmer’s Laura (a header of Felix… which they have attributed mistakenly, although understandably, to Felix credit-stealer Pat Sullivan) and Segar’s Sappo (a header of Thimble Theatre) notably. Cliff Sterrett, Billy DeBeck, Rube Goldberg and many other greats are featured as well. There are no examples of Sterrett’s wonderful silent Dot and Dash topper, unfortunately (another of my favorites), but multiple examples of his variously titled marriage-lament topper strips (all headers of Polly and Her Pals).
- Tom Neely covers Creepy 46
- The world of Kamandi: Earth, A.D.!
- Brain Boy Kills
- Quintet
- Toby Cypress and RODD RACER
- 03/03/2009 Steve Canyon
- Dream of the Rarebit Fiend 1905-04-15
- From the last days of the old Scans_daily; The Flying Machine
- Comic : Strange Adventures #2
- Comic : Daredevil #40
- Late Delivery Tuesday Newspaper Strip Day.
- Comics Post – Four Color #86 – Roy Rogers
- A Prologue to An Amazons Attack Review, plus whale abuse
- Nibbles
- A Month of Pulitzer Prize Winning Cartoons – Day 2
- Dance Gavin Dance
- 03/03/2009 Latigo
- “The Sneak Attack” from Atomic War #1 (Ace Comics; 1952)
- Hogan’s Web Extras
- Behind Locked Doors
- Mugwhump the Great: Mugwhump 027
- Oh, Yoko!
- Here’s Doc Savage From Curtis Publishing Issues 1-9
- Diggin’ Ditko: “The Dimensions of Greed”
- BUCKY BUG proofs
- Comic : M.A.R.S. Patrol
- Comic : Web of Mystery – more issues!
- COMICS WITH PROBLEMS No.32 – BOBBY JINDAL PRESENTS ALICE IN BLUNDERLAND
- Jim Flora’s White Block Quadrupeds
- Cakewalk
- HANK PORTER ON E-BAY
- LARRAZ EN “AVENTURERO”
- TOUTAIN EN “AVENTURERO”
- Rick Veitch offers BRAT PACK free issue
- JULIO RIBERA EN “AVENTURERO”
- BIELSA EN “AVENTURERO”
- calamityjon: I’ve recently been reading the whole run
- Go, Look: Tom Gauld’s Guardian Letter Cartoons As A Flickr Set
- *Phlegm by Dan* Issue eight of *Phlegm*
- Question (2)
- Mutt And Jeff Tuxedo Redux, And More
- Illustration: Cute Hunter
- Reg Parlett- The Mummy’s curse..
- Comic : Tales of Voodoo (V7) 1-6
- Vampirella Issues 62 & 63 rar pack
- Vampirella (warren) Issues 64-66 rar pack
- Here’s Vampirella (warren) Issues 67 & 68 rar pack
- Magazine/Comic : Vampirella#69,71,72
- Magazine/Comic : Vampirella#73-75
- Magazine/Comic : Vampirella #79,80,82
- The Storm Masters
- Two oddball pages and today’s mystery photo
- *Kemp Starrett* Roy Powers ~ Eagle Scout
- Mesomur
- Magazine/Comic : Vampirella#86,87,89
- Magazine/Comic : Vampirella#90,96
- Magazine/Comic : Vampirella#97,99
- Magazine/Comic : Vampirella#100,101,103
- Magazine/Comic : Vampirella#106,108
- Magazine/Comic : Vampirella#109-111
- Magazine/Comic : Vampirella#112 + annual
- Gumbo Galahad is Laffin’ at Yo’.
- Magazine/Comic : Vampirella#1 UK
- Comic : the Demon (1972 – Kirby)
- The Weird Dead
- Comic : Tales of Voodoo (V5)#1-4+6,7
- Finale Friday!
- 02/28/2009 Steve Canyon
- 02/28/200 Latigo
- Comics Post – Four Color #82 – The Lone Ranger
- Today’s Poor Almanack
- “The Kid Who Came To Dinner”
- fancy a swim?
- Comic : Baffling Mysteries
- Comic :Hand Of Fate
- Comic : Diary of Horror
- Comic: This Magazine is Haunted
- Yogi Bear in Air-Borne Bear (FC 1067)
- Back to the old drawing board
- COMIC: Flintstones at the World’s Fair
- Hate!
- Comic : Tales of Voodoo V6 #1-3
- 03/01/2009 Steve Canyon
- In A Future Not To Long Ago Saturday Leftover Day
- Sunday Funnies: Prison Plops Part 1
- Comic : Grim Ghost
- Comic : Web of Evil
- Comic : Web of Mystery
- Number 480 Ghost Patrol in Spain
- Comics Post – Four Color #83 – Gene Autry
- Jim Ivey’s Sunday Comics
- Comic : Beware
- Comic : Mysteries Weird and Strange
- Comic : Witches Tales
- Blondie: Dagwood Goes Fishing; Hook, Line and Sinker (Blondie 2)
- Comic : Journey into Fear
- March
- Sunday Funnies
- New month
- Donald Duck’s Best Christmas (Firestone Giveaway 1945)
- Dream of the Rarebit Fiend 1905-04-12
- The Vampire
- 03/02/2009 Latigo
- 03/02/2009 Male Call
- Comic : Marvel Tales #112
- We Have a Winner: Blinded Me with Comics! Plus: Making a Splash, 1980s style!
- Comics Post – Four Color #85 – Andy Panda
- A Month of Pulitzer Prize Winning Cartoons – Day 1
- Number 481 Boody call Craig Yoe’s book, Boody
- 03/02/2009 Steve Canyon
- the Blog Empire, part two
- Obscurity of the Day: War On Crime
- The Torch
- Face-a-day
- Gahan for the Day
- Webcomics update for 2/27/09
- Welcome to Hicksville Comics
- chunky surf
- Go, Look: Electrick Hoax Revisited
- Page one from “Dark and Stormy Night."
- Super Fantastica Comix Color Cover Preview
- To Do
- Anti-Girl Parties On, page 3
- Face-a-day
- Herriman Saturday
- Face-a-day
- Even more Intrepideers
- Face-a-day
- 02/27/2009 Steve Canyon
- 02/27/2009 Latigo
- Dream Song
- Famous First Fridays: Red Sonja’s Metal Bikini
- Comics Post – Four Color #79 – Mickey Mouse
- Reg Parlett- Big Boy and The Goodies and the Baddies
- Number 479 Fanthorpe comics
- the Blog Empire, part one
- Wally Wood Goes PLOP! Funny Fantasy in The King of the Ring
- Here’s Vampirella (WARREN) Issues 18-20
- Vampirella (warren) Issues 23, 26, 34
- No Kids Stuff Friday Comic Book Day.
- More Vampirella (warren) Issues 45, 49
- More Of Everyone’s Favorite Vampiress From Warren
- Now We Have Vampirella (warren) Issues 55 & 57
- Moving Right Along Here’s Vampirella Issues 59 & 59
- Comic: Weird War Tales – fills
- Here’s Vampirella (warren) Issues 60 & 61.
- PEQUEÑO PANTERA NEGRA
- “Post-BSG”
- Comics About Drawing
- Yokohama Melodrama
- She Wanted to Know… The Black Future
- Peter Blegvad’s Leviathan – Coda
- One the finest artists to contribute to the comic…
- The Neighbor
- Ernst & Saunders, Kelly, Lazarus, Schulz, Walker: "Comic Strips They’d Really Like To Do"
- The Diet of Giant Moas
- the Little Rascals
- More Chloe – Cartoon Morphing
- Arabian Knight Tuesday Newspaper Story Day.
- METODIO CALAMAR
- TARUGUETE
- HELIODORO HIPOTENUSO SE SIENTE ENFERMO
- HELIODORO HIPOTENUSO COLOCA UNA CERRADURA
- #115: D120 Smuggler’s Luck From 11 Mar 1963 to 4 May 1963
- You do not scare us
- This week’s comic
- CUENTOS ORIENTALES
- Comic: Rawhide Kid #30 – 32
- CARPANTA EN: GUSTOS RAROS
- Magazine : Reptilicus #2
- What in the world is Dylan up to?
- Jim Munroe’s THEREFORE REPENT as a free download
- Magazine : The Rook #9-14
- Comic : Young Allies #1&2
- Comic : Men in Action
- Comic : All Winners#1
- Comic : Marines in Battle #2
- Comic : Journey into unknown worlds #59
- Face-a-day
- Who’s There?
- More VIP DEAD GAME SPORTSMEN
- Hey, Listen!: Comics Sound FX
- OK Folks Nearing The End Of The Creepy Mag
- Here Is The Last Of The Creepys
- I Found Some More Issue’s Of Unknown Worlds Of Science
- Unknown Worlds Of Science Fiction Issues 3 & 4
- Last Two For Unknown Worlds Of Science Fiction Issues
- Comic : Journey into Mystery #2
- Ghoul’s Bride
- Whaling fun and today’s mystery photo
- Mome story preview
- Comic: Weird War Tales – more missing issues
- Comic : Witches Tales V6 #1,4,5,6
- 02/26/2009 Latigo
- 02/26/2009 Steve Canyon
- Comics Post – Four Color #78 – Porky Pig
- It Came from EC: Vintage Bradbury adaptation.
- Infinite Kung Fu, part 13
- Obscurity of the Day: Lancelot
- CREEPIEST FAMILY CIRCUS EVER
- Comic : Action Comics #50,51
- Comic : All True Crime #44
- Comic : Witches’ Tales V7 #1
- Potential Rejections
- Comic : Weird Horrors
- Comic : Strange Adventures #1
- From Rick Geary
- Meanwhile…. on Wednesday!