Brother Theodore Wednesdays #10
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Monthly Archives: April 2008
Interesting Links: April 23, 2008
- Percy B. St. John Westerns
from Yesterday’s Papers
- Quick hits
from The Comics Reporter
- A Celebration of Vintage and Retro Design
- Coloring Books
- City Kid, Country Kid
from The Ephemerist
- Peur(s) du Noir & Richard McGuire
- Ed Sorel Interview
from Mike Lynch Cartoons
- gag engineers etc
from jabberous
- Sequential Tart: Creators and Readers
- Sequential Tart: Putting Together a New Comic Book
- Sequential Tart: Making Your Own Comic is Possible
- CANDY-BAGS
from Sam’s INFATUATIONS
- War Against Crime (1948)
- I Must Kill!
- The reality of depending on “1000 True Fans”
from Boing Boing
- *Frank Frazetta*
- Dell Publishing’s “The Funnies” Part 3
from Stripper’s Guide
- *Frank Frazetta*
- MSN Music customers lose *all* their music the next time they buy a new PC
from Boing Boing
- Amnesty’s Unsubscribe Me video reenacts CIA waterboarding torture
from Boing Boing
- Meta: Beyond The Blog- Need Your Input
- *Number 296 Foley of the Fighting 5th*
- Apr. 23, 2008: The fate of Sisyphus
- Jack Kirby and the Flying Chair: Seldom Seen 1950’s Comics from Alarming Tales #1
from Cartoon SNAP
- #23 mooga
- WFMU’s Antique Phonograph Music Program from Apr 22, 2008
- Sam & Friends (1959)
- GRANT MORRISON VIDEO INTERVIEW PREVIEW
from Comic Book Headlines
- CIA: Out of Touch Much?
from ACLU Blog
- Modern Mechanix Round-UP
from Boing Boing Gadgets
- Sketchbook #24
from FLOG! Entries
Crumbling Paper: No Wedding Bells for Him! (strip #2)
Here’s an example I scanned of No Wedding Bells for Him! from 1906 by Jimmy Swinnerton.
Click the image to view the full strip.
Click here to read examples of Swinnerton’s Little Jimmy at Barnacle Press.
Click here to read examples of Swinnerton’s Mr. Jack at Barnacle Press.
Click here to read examples of Swinnerton’s Mr. Batch at Barnacle Press.
Click here to read examples of Swinnerton’s Mr. Jack at The Stripper’s Guide
Read an article from 1906 about Jimmy Swinnerton at The Stripper’s Guide.
See an example of Swinnerton’s Mount Ararat (second series) at The Stripper’s Guide.
See examples of Swinnerton’s An Embarrassing Moment at The Stripper’s Guide.
Click here to read about Jimmy Swinnerton at lambiek.net.
Click here to read more about Little Jimmy at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.
Click here to read more about Jimmy Swinnerton at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.
THE CARTOON CRYPT: Teeny Tiny Samurai Versus the Polka-Dot Demon
This cartoon is called Issun-boshi no Shusse (1929) on YouTube. It appears to feature an ancestor of S. Clay Wilson’s Checkered Demon. Searching for information on it I ran across this page refers to it as The Tiny One Makes it Big, and attributes it to the production company Nakano Mangasha. That page also is selling dvd’s that include a number of the old Japanese cartoons featured here recently, as well as many others, in their Japanese Anime Classic Collection [4-DVD box set].
Interesting Links: April 22nd, 2008
- San Diego Reader | “Pacific Comics: The Inside Story
- Worth Noting
from news from me
- Lying In The Gutters – 4-21-2008
from Lying In The Gutters
- TOURISTS
from The Woodring Monitor
- ‘Columbia has her eye on You’: Haskell Coffin magazine cover illustration, 1920
- Will Eisner’s Preventative Maintenance
from BibliOdyssey
- JACK KIRBY TORPEDO DOGS
from The Woodring Monitor
- *Cleaning out the Ephemera *
from A Hole in the Head
- My Favorite Day of the Week!
from Drawn and Quarterly
- Second Stolen Monkey Returned To Owner, Suspect Wanted
from Monkeys In The News
- Monkeys Escape From Tampa Wildlife Facility
from Monkeys In The News
- *Franklin Booth* 1874 ~ 1948
- The Lady Killer Returns
- Dell Publishing’s “The Funnies” Part 2
from Stripper’s Guide
- Apr. 22, 2008: Stephen King cannot help us
- #22 pearl
- The Incredible Flutist (fine art print)
from Jim Flora
- POPGUN
from PULPHOPE
- Sketchbook #23
from FLOG! Entries
- PETA Offers X-Prize for Artificial Meat
from Slashdot: Science
- OFFICE LAFFS Edited by Charles Preston
from Mike Lynch Cartoons
- Kernels
from BibliOdyssey
The Missing Panel!
Now that’s service! Less than six hours after I made the last post with the Dear Little Katy strip missing a panel, our friend Thrillmer! from Barnacle Press has provided a scan of the missing panel from the strip! Thanks, Thrillmer!
Note that if you haven’t checked out the Barnacle Press site yet, you should do yourself a favor and get over there. It is easily the biggest repository of comics from the early history of comics on the web… I link to them almost daily. I hope this quick response means Barnacle Press will be posting more examples of Dear Little Katy!
Crumbling Paper: Sweet, Charming Katy
Here’s an example I scanned of Dear Little Katy from 1904 by Jimmy Swinnerton. Dear Little Katy would seem to be Little Jimmy in drag. The penultimate panel 10 has crumbled to dust somewhere… if anyone wants to draw a version of the missing panel I’ll post it here.
Click the image to view the full strip.
UPDATE: The missing panel has been found, thanks to Thrillmer! from Barnacle Press. You can see it here.
Click here to read examples of Swinnerton’s Little Jimmy at Barnacle Press.
Click here to read examples of Swinnerton’s Mr. Jack at Barnacle Press.
Click here to read examples of Swinnerton’s Mr. Batch at Barnacle Press.
Click here to read examples of Swinnerton’s Mr. Jack at The Stripper’s Guide
Read an article from 1906 about Jimmy Swinnerton at The Stripper’s Guide.
See an example of Swinnerton’s Mount Ararat (second series) at The Stripper’s Guide.
See examples of Swinnerton’s An Embarrassing Moment at The Stripper’s Guide.
Click here to read about Jimmy Swinnerton at lambiek.net.
Click here to read more about Little Jimmy at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.
Click here to read more about Jimmy Swinnerton at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.
THE CARTOON CRYPT: The Black Cat (1929)
That’s how it is. That’s how it goes. Kuro Nyago aka The Black Cat (1929) by Noburo Ofuji.
Interesting Links: April 21st, 2008
- Not Enough Art by J. Otto Siebold!
from PopDrawer
- Japanese Anatomical Charts
from Morbid Anatomy
- This Ain
from Hey Kids, Comics!
- This Ain’t A Library – 1946
from Hey Kids, Comics!
- Anti-Nazi cartoons
- Laure Nollet
- Bizarro delivered via blog
- Western Swing Roots 3 – Jug/ Washboard Bands
from Western Swing on 78
- 1949 King Features Cartoonists
from Mike Lynch Cartoons
- Old Time Radio of Temporary Interest
- sockman’s salvation
- * The following is a draft of the chapter on Betty Boop
- The Triumph of Dr. Payn
from Blog Flume
- Reminders
from Blog Flume
- Will Eisner’s “The Spirit” – A Sampler
- The origin of MODOK!
- An Open Letter to Paramount, MGM and Lionsgate
- A Brief Matter…
from news from me
- Beyond the Past!
- Dolls of Doom
- Frazetta on Dope
- Living Dead
- Mr. District Attorney, No. 12
from Geeklog Site
- Bambi Color Sketches
- Uganda Wildlife Officers Rescue Chimpanzee From Catholic Priest
from Monkeys In The News
- Home Page: Two Days in the Life: Kansas City, 1922
from MichaelBarrier.com
- Boozy Smoking Chimp Rescued From Navy By Edinburgh Zoo
from Monkeys In The News
- Wild Monkeys A Threat To Islamabad Zoo Visitors
from Monkeys In The News
- Droste Effect: when a package’s artwork features the package itself
from Boing Boing
- 60% of world’s paintings come from one village in China
from Boing Boing
- Gordon Lee case ends
from THE BEAT
- Francoise Mouly & Jonathan Bennett
from FLOG! Entries
- Ray Fenwick’s HOBK special edition
from FLOG! Entries
- Comic Book Confidential!
from FLOG! Entries
- Chocolate Cheeks for 4/18/08
from FLOG! Entries
- NYCC: Steve Gerber Memorial
from ComicMix
- Newsy bits
from THE BEAT
- Cover art by *Bill Everett* Cover art by *Joe Maneely*
- Unkown cover artist Story art by *Russ Heath*
- Cover art by *Bill Everett* Story art by *Joe Maneely* Cover
- Cover art by *Russ Heath*
- *Adventures Into Weird Worlds* My *favorite* ATLAS Pre-Code
- *George Rozen* 1895 ~ 1973
- *Virgil Finlay* 1914 ~ 1971 The Complete Book of Space Travel
- *Number 295* * Melvin Monster and Crazy Klutch*
- *Number 294* * Mr. Sardonicus* Author Ray Russell
- NYCC: An Evening With Neil Gaiman
from Comic Book Resources
- NYCC: Grant Morrison Spotlight
from Comic Book Resources
- NYCC: The Achewood Interview
from Comic Book Resources
- Krazy Kat’s Final Reflections on Passing
from sans everything
- NYCC 08: Interview With Douglas Rushkoff and Scott McCloud
- Interview: Grant Morrison
- Dell Publishing’s “The Funnies”
from Stripper’s Guide
- Teologio
- Apr. 21, 2008: Escape from New York
- Behind TV “military analysts,” the Pentagon’s hidden hand
from Boing Boing
- Funny/Creepy old comic book ad
from Boing Boing
- Mickey Mouse tries different ways to commit suicide
from Boing Boing
- J.R. Williams’ “Felyna”
from FLOG! Entries
- Life as a Deitch.
from FLOG! Entries
- Show and Tell, Pt. 8
from FLOG! Entries
- Sketchbook #22
from FLOG! Entries
- We cannot hope to stop Stan Lee; we can only hope to contain him
from THE BEAT
- Herriman Saturday
from Stripper’s Guide
- Images – Cartoons That Time Forgot: From the Van Beuren Studio
- Animated and Forgotten, classic cartoon movies, old animated films
- The Comics Journal Message Board :: View topic – Lists of comic reprints in TCJ?
- The Comics Journal Message Board :: View topic – Scariest Galactus ever
- The Comics Journal Message Board :: View topic – Gary Groth interviewed on the CBC: Comics Piracy
- Sketchbook #20
from FLOG! Entries
- Friday Distraction: King Features 1949
from The Comics Reporter
- Truth Emergency US
- THE BLARSTED MOLESKINE: LIVING ROCK
from The Woodring Monitor
- CHOCOLATE cheeks
- Jay Kennedy’s cartoon collection now at Ohio State Cartoon Research Library
from The Daily Cartoonist
- Cloning technique could bring species back from extinction
from Futurismic
- A short love story in stop motion
- Frazetta back cover illustration
- *Al Williamson, Roy Krenkel,* *Frank Frazetta & Angelo Torres*
- With all the great graphic novels being published…
from Drawn and Quarterly
- Doom in the Tomb
- Go, Look: Will Dinski
from The Comics Reporter
- Reasons To Be Cheerful: week of 04/18/08
- Silent Cartoons on Matinee At The Bijou
- Ray Pointer To The Rescue
from Matinee At The Bijou
- Federal Bill Introduced to End Invasive Research on Chimpanzees
from Monkeys In The News
- My Favorite Day of the Week
from Drawn and Quarterly
- Harvey Kurtzman – Opposing Poses, LIFE
from all kinds of stuff
Obscure Images: Wally Wood’s Spawn of Venus
It’s pretty amazing the treasure you can find on Ebay without even buying anything. I’m talking about the images that get posted there. Like these ones. Here are the images for an auction I ran across here for the complete pencils for an unfinished Wally Wood story for EC comics. Here is what the auction description says about them:
WALLY WOOD (1927 – 1981) graduated from New York’s School of Visual Arts, and was an early assistant on THE SPIRIT. His early work includes romance stories for Fox and science fiction stories for Avon, which led to his joining the EC staff in 1950, where he usually worked on the science fiction titles, while also contributing some amazing work to SHOCK SUSPENSTORIES. After the Comics Code came into effect, Wood continued to contribute to MAD, while also moving on to Marvel, where he worked on early issues of DAREDEVIL and THE AVENGERS. In the late ’60s, Wood joined Tower Comics as art director, where he created T.H.U.N.D.E.R. AGENTS. He also created the sexy CANNON and SALLY FORTH for Overseas Weekly in 1971.
This is the original pencil art for an never-finished complete 8-page story titled “The Spawn of Venus” that was slated to appear in a third issue of Three-Dimensional EC Classics, and was based on a story drawn by Al Feldstein in Weird Science #6. These pages are in very good condition with avearge wear and aging; there are also doodles and loose sketches on the backs of several pages. The pages have an image area of 13″ x 18″.
Here are the pages…
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4
Page 5
Page 6
Page 7
Page 8
These are probably big enough to reasonably ink if printed. If anyone out there wants to ink them, I would love to link to your inking job.