CRUMBLING PAPER: Thimble Theatre (strip #2)

Here’s an example I scanned of Thimble Theatre with a Sappo header from October 1, 1939 probably by Charles H. “Doc” Winner, a year after Thimble Theatre creator Elzie Segar’s death.

Click the image to view the full strip.

Click here to read about E.C. Segar at lambiek.net.

Click here to read more about E.C. Segar at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

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

Click here to read more about Elzie Segar at Wikipedia.

View a bunch of Fleischer Popeye cartoons here.

You can get the three Fantagraphics Popeye books here.

You can get the Popeye the Sailor DVD sets here.

HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Messmer, DeBeck, Sterrett and more at the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive! : September 17th, 2008

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TODAY’S FEATURED ITEM: More amazing classic newspaper pages posted today at the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive, courtesy of their MARC DECKTER CHALLENGE… Messmer, DeBeck, Sterrett, Gross and more! Click the image above to go there!

INTERESTING LINKS: 1966 Walt Kelly Article at Yesterday’s Papers: September 17th, 2008

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TODAY’S FEATURED ITEM:
John Adcock at Yesterday’s Papers brings us a 1966 article on the great Walt Kelly. Click the above image to go there.

CRUMBLING PAPER: Gasoline Alley (strip #2)

Here’s an example I scanned of Gasoline Alley from 1933 by Frank King. In retrospect, out of context, the below panel is just plain wrong… looks like it is from Shary Fleinniken’s Trots and Bonnie.

Click the image to view the full strip.

Rogerclarkart.com has a bunch of gorgeous large scans of Gasoline Alley strips.

The ASIFA Hollywood Animation Archive has some Gasoline Alley strips (among other things) here.

Click here to read some other strips by Frank King at Barnacle Press.

Here is a Frank King strip at The Stripper’s Guide.

And another one.

Here are some Frank King strips from The Balloonist.

Here is the Wikipedia entry on Gasoline Alley.

Here is the Toonopedia entry on Gasoline Alley.

Here is a video of Frank King at his drawing board.

Click here to read about Frank King at lambiek.net.

Walt and Skeezix books from Drawn and Quarterly collecting the dailies.

Sundays With Walt and Skeezix, a huge book of Sundays from Sunday Press Books.
Pre-Skeezix, Gasoline Alley strip books at the Spec Productions website.

THE CARTOON CRYPT: Willie Whopper in Stratos Fear (1933)

Here is a fun and very surreal Willie Whopper cartoon from Ub Iwerks.

Read more about this cartoon on The Big Cartoon Database.

This cartoon, along with almost all of Ub Iwerks cartoons for his own studio, are available on the excellent DVDs The Cartoons that time Forgot Volume One and Volume Two. Stratos Fear is on Volume 2.

Interesting to note that the color in the Ub Iwerks Comicolor cartoons on these DVDs seems to have held up much better than the color on the previously mentioned Fleischer Color Classics on the Somewhere in Dreamland set… or at least seems to have faded differently. The blues in these cartoons are much more brilliant than the blues in any of the Fleischer Color Classics. If someone actually restored the color in the cartoons in either set, I would guess the they would look quite candy-store different.

HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Everett True! Messmer! Gross! Herriman! Kurtzman! : September 15th, 2008

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TODAY’S FEATURED ITEMS: John Adcock at Yesterday’s Papers brings us another great A.D. Condo Everett True strip (among other delights)…

The ASIFA Hollywood Animation Archive brings us another huge batch of gorgeous scans of old Sunday newspaper strips, featuring Otto Messmer and Milt Gross in the fourth day of the Marc Deckter challenge

The Stripper’s Guide brings us the weekly batch of Herriman rarities in their ongoing Herriman Saturdays feature…

Finally, Comicrazys and Those Fabuleous Fifties both bring us some Harvey Kurtzman rarities…

Lots of other good stuff in the links today too… have fun!

INTERESTING LINKS: Heartman’s Heart Breakers at the Internet Archive : September 15th, 2008

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TODAY’S FEATURED ITEM: There is so much great music for free on the Internet Archive… today we have one of my favorite bands introduced to me by The Old Codger on WFMU (which, incidentally, is the greatest radio show of all time… and is all available for download). I bring you the one and only Hartman’s Heart Breakers, for your listening pleasure… there are two pages of music here and here.

CRUMBLING PAPER: Gasoline Alley (strip #1)

NOTE TO NEW READERS: The Crumbling Paper Index is a repository of old comics I’ve scanned, many of which are over 100 years old. You can see the full index here.

Here’s a typically beautiful example I scanned of a Gasoline Alley Sunday from 1933 by Frank King, with Unca Walt pulling a Calvin’s Dad. A Halloween strip to get you in the mood for next month.

In this wonderful new world of comics reprint books we live in, there are currently a lot of wonderful Gasoline Alley books in print… three Walt and Skeezix books from Drawn and Quarterly collecting the dailies, and one amazing book of Sundays from Sunday Press Books, Sundays With Walt and Skeezix. The strips in the Sunday Press book are printed full size and are eye-bleedingly gorgeous.

There are also some books of earlier, pre-Skeezix, Gasoline Alley strips I haven’t seen yet available at the Spec Productions website.

Click the image to view the full strip.

Click here to read some other strips by Frank King at Barnacle Press.

Here is a Frank King strip at The Stripper’s Guide.

And another one.

Here are some Frank King strips from The Balloonist.

Here is the Wikipedia entry on Gasoline Alley.

Here is the Toonopedia entry on Gasoline Alley.

Here is a video of Frank King at his drawing board.

Click here to read about Frank King at lambiek.net.

Update: Gabriel Corbera at the Headsonboard Joyville Blog points us to a bunch of gorgeous large scans of Gasoline Alley strips online that I missed.

HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : David Chelsea’s Website : September 12th, 2008

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Note to new readers: The Hey! Kids! Comics! feature on this site is a regular list of interesting links to mostly old free comics around the web.

TODAY’S FEATURED ITEM: Tom Spurgeon at the indispensible Comics Reporter blog points us to David Chelsea’s lovely website. Note that Chelsea’s brilliant autobiographical graphic novel David Chelsea in Love is currently shamefully out of print, but there are some cheap copies on Amazon.

Mr. Chelsea is also responsible for the best book on perspective that has ever been written, and probably that ever will be written, Perspective! For Comic Book Artists: How to Achieve a Professional Look in Your Artwork.

He has a couple of his numerous 24 hour comics available for free on his site, among other things.