Here’s another example I scanned of our sideshow hero, The Handy Man from Timbuctoo by CAW from 1904.
Click the image to view the full strip.
Crumbling Paper: The Handy Man from Timbuctoo (strip #2)
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Monthly Archives: March 2008
THE CARTOON CRYPT: Small Fry (1939)
I’ve had the song from this one stuck in my head since I watched it yesterday… another great cartoon from the Fleischers, featuring Tommy Cod. How they got the fish to smoke underwater, I have no idea.
Interesting Links: March 18th, 2008
- Nick Mag’s All-Comics Special
from Kids’ Comics
- Go, Look: Marvel Bullpen ’69 Photos
from The Comics Reporter
- James Gillray
from Yesterday’s Papers
- FOO Found
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Yesterday’s Papers
from Yesterday’s Papers
- MR. SKINterview
from Drawn and Quarterly
- Sure, Barks was capable of wringing a lot of emotion…
- Dave Stevens interview from The Comics Journal (1987)
from Boing Boing
- General Guemes Gnome
from Cryptomundo.com
- The science fiction book art of Richard Powers
from Boing Boing
- Interview with “Comics Visionary” James Sturm
from Drawn and Quarterly
- Remembering the Self-Publishing Movement: Diana Schutz
from B o n e v i l l e
- Mechanical Turked color names
from Boing Boing
- CR Review: Meet Abraham Lincoln
from The Comics Reporter
- Hannes Bok
- The Rape of the Stationmaster’s Daughter
from Jim Flora
- Sequoia Voting Systems threatens Felten’s Princeton security research team
from Boing Boing
- Knight Attire
from BibliOdyssey
- When Character Design Goes Bad
from Mike Lynch Cartoons
- The Thing From Beyond
- Mar. 18, 2008: Priorities, man
- Art Listing
- Alex Cox | The A.V. Club
- strip mind – bookforum.com / in print
- 1936 1934 Japanese cartoon with evil Mickey Mouse
from Boing Boing
- Kitab al-Bulhan
from BibliOdyssey
- Early Science Fiction Fanzines: A Cover Gallery
Crumbling Paper: The Handy Man From Timbuctoo (strip #1)
Here’s an example I scanned of The Handy Man from Timbuctoo by CAW from 1904. The Handy Man is a truly bizarre character… as bizarre as they come, really. A wandering hairy-man do-gooder, with a pet tiger sidekick.
Click the image to view the full strip.
THE CARTOON CRYPT: The Milky Way (1940)
Here’s a delightful MGM cartoon directed by Rudolph Ising that has been a frequent request of my daughter’s recently. Featuring The Three Little Kittens from the nursery rhyme. The kittens don’t appear to have been in any other cartoons.
Interesting Links: March 17th, 2008
- Ping Pong balls make plane buoyant
from MAKE Magazine
- Modern products in vintage ads photoshopping contest
from Boing Boing
- Which giant corporation owns your favorite tiny organic food brand?
from Boing Boing
- Disney Auction
- Margaret Brundage 1900 ~ 1976
- Or, you can just service a governor…
from FLOG! Entries
- Chocolate Cheeks for 3/14/08
from FLOG! Entries
- One Cool Blog Leads to Another
from Little Hokum Rag
- Gazette Du Bon Ton
from Little Hokum Rag
- Vintage Easter Cards from Germany
from Little Hokum Rag
- New Hokum Song- “Dusting the Frets”
from Little Hokum Rag
- Restored Houdini movies features a fight with the first ever robot in a motion picture
from Boing Boing
- Fingertip biometrics at Disney turnstiles: the Mouse does its bit for the police state
from Boing Boing
- Trio
from Jim Flora
- The Tarantula!
- Jaws of Death
- Herriman Saturday
from Stripper’s Guide
- House votes against telcom immunity for illegal wiretapping
from Boing Boing
- Home Page: Who’s That With Walt?
from MichaelBarrier.com
- 19th Century Japanese Toy Designs
- Hot Stuff
- Meta: ASIFA-Hollywood Mini Documentary
- *N. C. Wyeth* 1882 ~ 1945 Robinson Crusoe ~ 1920 *
- Ever Meulen art
from The Ephemerist
- The Game Called Dying
- A Penny A Piece
from The Ephemerist
- Poor Sof’ Boy!!
from Matt Madden’s blog
- Things you find when you were looking for something else.
- diagrammed monsters
from new bodega
- Al Williamson & Frank Frazetta *from* Crime Suspense Stories
- Obscurity of the Day: Wimpy’s Zoo’s Who
from Stripper’s Guide
- UPA’s “Man on the Land” industrial cartoon
from Boing Boing
- Coffin Joe Comics
- Return of the Corpse
- Anchors the Salt Water Daffy, Vol. 1, No. 2
from Geeklog Site
- FFF Results Post #113 — Commix
from The Comics Reporter
- Please Consider Buying Some Comics From Industry Icon Robert Beerbohm
- Introducing…
- Car Battery Punks of St. Louis
- Origins of H-O-R-S-E
- Reflections
- Leon Mnemonic
- *Number 275* * Don’t shake the family tree*
- A Moment Of Rejected Baby Gorilla Zen
from Monkeys In The News
- Anatomical Flipbook, L.W. Yaggy & James J. West, 1885
from Morbid Anatomy
- Komiks:National Book of the Filipinos
from PilipinoKomiks
- Ruben “Rubeny” Yandoc Comic Art Sale
from PilipinoKomiks
- Captain Barbell
from PilipinoKomiks
- A Gallery of Francisco V. Coching’s Early Cover Art
from PilipinoKomiks
- A Gallery of Philippine Original Cartoon Art
from PilipinoKomiks
- A Gallery of Rare Komiks
from PilipinoKomiks
- Searching for Jose Zabala-Santos
from PilipinoKomiks
- Philippine Vintage Cartoon Strips
from PilipinoKomiks
- The First Pinoy Komiks Superheroes
from PilipinoKomiks
- Hi. Happy New Year to all of you!
from PilipinoKomiks
- Mga Kuwento Ni Lola Basyang: Classic Tagalog Tales in Komiks
from PilipinoKomiks
- Komiks and the Movies Update 3
from PilipinoKomiks
- Bomba Komiks
from PilipinoKomiks
- GASI:The Rise and Fall of a Komiks Giant
from PilipinoKomiks
- Mars Ravelo: The Original Komiks King
from PilipinoKomiks
- Hoy Komiks, Pinoy Version of Mad
from PilipinoKomiks
- Pilipino Funny Komiks (1978-2004)
from PilipinoKomiks
- Spot the Difference
from PilipinoKomiks
- Early Philippine Cartoons
from PilipinoKomiks
- Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 3/17
from THE BEAT
- P. Craig Russell discusses SANDMAN: THE DREAM HUNTERS
from THE BEAT
- Book Signing! Now with more info.
- Sushi Update
from Big Time Attic
- Far Arden Cover
from Big Time Attic
- Mar. 17, 2008: This is my body, this is my 401k plan
- This is a cartoon by R F Outcault (1863-1928) that…
- Bushmiller Society Secret Cult – Denis Kitchen Interview
- The Comics Journal Message Board :: View topic – Buenaventura Press March News
- Don Martin – In a Department Store pt 1 – The Gift of Fat Jokes
from all kinds of stuff
- Leiden Blaeu Maps
from BibliOdyssey
- Heavy Metal movie in the works
from THE BEAT
- sex & drugs
Crumbling Paper: Polly Sleepyhead
Here’s an example I scanned of Peter Newell’s beautifully-drawn strip Polly Sleepyhead from 1907.
Click the image to view the full strip.
Please be advised that like many of the comic strips of the era, it contains offensive racial depictions. If this sort of thing offends you, you may not want to view it.
Click here to read more examples of The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead at Barnacle Press.
Click here to see more examples of The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead at nonsenselit.org.
Dr. Seuss’ The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T
Here’s another example of Dr. Seuss done right by Hollywood. Here’s the trailer for the great live action Dr. Seuss movie from 1953, The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T
Read more about the film on Wikipedia.
Read more about the film on the Internet Movie Database.
Here’s a fun image-filled post about the movie at learning2share.blogspot.com.
Interesting Links: March 14th, 2008
- Bruce Timm – H.P.Lovecraft
- Frazer Irving – Alan Moore
- Witchcraft
- Filmography: UPA’s Man On The Land 1951
- *Number 274* * Walt Kelly’s Cave Kid*
- Obscurity of the Day: Cross Word Charlie
from Stripper’s Guide
- Chimps Perceived By Public Not To Be Endangered Because Of Prevalence On TV
from Monkeys In The News
- Go, Look: BEASTS! Open Call Results
from The Comics Reporter
- Saving Spot The Frog: Mark Heath Uses Fundable To Extend Collection’s Life
from The Comics Reporter
- Scientology strikes back at “Anonymous” via YouTube
from Boing Boing
- Mother Jones on TV’s Solitary
from Boing Boing
- Lutefisk Sushi Volume C Deadline, Sideshows
from CONSPIRE!
- “Million-dollar idea”
from In This Corner
- TONOHARU/THAT SALTY AIR book release/signing/party
- Read some interviews with yours truly!
- An AI 4-Year-Old In Second Life
from Slashdot
- Mar. 14, 2008: Shorter Journalista 18
- The Daily Weird But True Toon Factoid: Bubble Bursting!
from Arflovers
- Illustration: The Sistine Chapel of Golden Books
- Creator of Eliza, Joseph Weizenbaum, Dead at 85
from Boing Boing
- Blackhawk: The Man in the Iron Mask (Part 3)
- Shop Bob
from news from me
- EL PROFESOR TORNILLEZ
from Viñetas
- Does not compute!
from FLOG! Entries
- Edgar Church Artwork – Chuck Rozanski, Mile High Comics
Crumbling Paper: Uncle Mun (strip #2)
Here’s an example I scanned of Uncle Mun from April 24, 1910 by Fred Nankivell.
Update: I earlier attributed this strip to Frank Nankivell. In the comments here, according to this Frank Nankivell’s granddaughter, Jody Nankivell Herriott, he had nothing to do with this strip, and the person that did do this strip was named Fred, not Frank.
Click the image to view the full strip.
Click here to read another Uncle Mun example at The Stripper’s Guide.