The wonderful ASIFA Animation Archive is offering a great deal for donations…

One of our most steadfast supporters is Marc Deckter. Marc is allowing us to digitize hundreds and hundreds of rare 1930s Sunday pages from his extensive collection. Last year, Marc issued a challenge to readers of this blog. Today, he is challenging you to help again.

Contribute $20 to the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive through the PayPal link below, and Marc will provide us with a vintage Sunday page to publish here on the website. Donate $50 and he will share three of them… donate $100 and he will allow us to post eight pages. Purchase one of these hard drives and have it shipped to the Archive, and Marc will post FORTY rare Sunday pages! Marc has classic Otto Messmer Felix the Cat, Chic Young’s Blondie, Cliff Sterrett’s Polly and Her Pals, Milt Gross Sunday and other great pages ready to go. All you have to do to see them is contribute. As the total rises, Marc is prepared to throw in some extra treats, like he did last year. When you contribute, everyone benefits.

They have already posted a huge number of great strips from this promotion… please do give them money! Click the above image to go see some great comics!

Tom Spurgeon points us to this amazing golden age comics download site at goldenagecomics.co.uk Im pretty sure I’ve linked there before, but this is the first time I have explored it in detail… they have a ton of amazing public domain golden age books for free. What a resource!

Note that you can find links to software for viewing the comics here (they are .cbr files).

Click the cover of Animal Comics #23 featuring Walt Kelly’s Pogo above (one of the many, many comics available there) to go to the site. Here’s a link to the Animal Comics they have available.

Note that you will need to create and account to download the comics. Note also that they take down comics if they come to believe they are not in the public domain… many of the Dell comics listed are no longer available for this reason… there is no EC or DC, among other notable omissions.

No matter, they have an utter overload of amazing stuff… don’t miss this site!

Among his usual heap of great stuff he is posting daily on his blogs, John Adcock brings us the full version of the previously truncated Frederick Opper Katzenjammer strip I linked to the other day. Click the above image to see it.

Finally, two more great lists from our friends at another overwhelming site full of old comics, Barnacle Press:

Ten Final Hearty Recommendations From Your Other Pal, Holmes! and Ten More Must-See Strips from your pal, Thrillmer

• More FallCon Sketch Cards
  from Big Time Attic
• Cosmos
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Obscurity of the Day: Bronc Peeler
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Yoda sketchbook vol. 2 page 18 – Daniel Clowes
  from Fantagraphics Books – FriendFeed
• Triumph Over Terror
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Captain Universe
  from Bear Alley
• Fantastic Worlds #5 Cover
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Meet Me in the Cemetery
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Killer From Hicksville
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Action Comics #59 (1943)
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Number 376 Rocky X is stranger than strange!
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• I’d walk a Mile if I could Wednesday Advertising Day
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Get Lost!
  from Hairy Green Eyeball
• Women Won’t Be Attracted to You
  from Introspective Comics
• The First 100 Years
  from Raymond Scott
• Before Popeye II
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Mr. Muscles!
  from Golden Reading
• Robotman + Bazooka: The Atom Bubble Boy
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• My Pal “Foot… Foot…” from “Little Lulu” #94, 1956
  from Stanley Stories
• Little Nemo 1913-05-04
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Another British Strip — Choochi and Twink
  from Beautiful Balloons with Maggie Thompson
• Marc Deckter Challenge Day One
  from ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive
• Infinite Kung Fu, part 3
  from Top Shelf 2.0 Webcomics
• Nihilists in blackface: “Tom And Jerry” from OUR GANG COMICS #17, 1944
  from Stanley Stories
• Man From Planet X [Re-Post by Request!]
  from datajunkie
• Katzies Ghosts : Frederick Burr Opper
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• The Jackass Story
  from FLOG! Entries
• Little Nemo 1913-04-27
  from Comic Strip Library News
• My husband keeps telling me to go to hell…
  from Hairy Green Eyeball
• Another Milestone: Time For The Marc Deckter Challenge!
  from ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive
• Appointment in Hades
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Space Dictionary
  from Nedor-A-Day
• The Fighting Yank: Some Crooks Will Do Anything
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Flying Fists And Glamour
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• What’s a Coogy? Tuesday newspaper strip day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Obscurity of the Day: Professor Hypnotiser
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Blue Bolt, Vol. 6, No. 6 (N0. 62)
  from Geeklog Site
• Freckles – 01/31/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• SEXCAPADES THE LOVE LIFE OF THE MODERN HOMO SAPIENS by Al Ross
  from Mike Lynch Cartoons
• Before Popeye
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Box Tape Passage
  from Top Shelf 2.0 Webcomics
• The Horrors of RE-POST!
  from datajunkie
• Der Dough vas Haunted
  from Yesterday’s Papers Archive
• Minneapolis Jam: September 2008
  from CONSPIRE!
• DIRT IN THE AFTERNOON
  from The Woodring Monitor
• Friday Distraction: Golden Age Comics Downloads Site
  from CR Briefings
• Children’s Books: Les mauvaises têtes de Coquinet
  from Martin Klasch
• Children’s Books: Jim Flora
  from Martin Klasch
• New York! Philadelphia! Comic art shows!
  from Drawn and Quarterly
• Four More More
  from Top Shelf 2.0 Webcomics
• Cartoon Laffs
  from Scott Saavedra’s Comic Book Heaven
• Setting Sail with Boner’s Ark
  from Beautiful Balloons with Maggie Thompson
• Chocolate Cheeks for 9/5/08
  from FLOG! Entries
• Newspaper Comics Fans Look To Opus and Berke Breathed For Signs and Clues
  from CR Briefings
• Golden Age Comics Downloads
  from goldenagecomics.co.uk
• Freckles – 01/30/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• It’s fine, but is it art?
  from ThadBlog
• Design: Mice and Duck Model Sheets
  from ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive
• *America’s Best Comics #31 ~ July/1949*
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• *Story art by* Ruben Moreira
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• Spectator Sport Friday Comic Book Day
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• *The Black Terror #27 ~ June/1949*
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• *Exciting Comics #65 ~ Jan/1949*
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• The Black Terror
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• More Mr. Muscles + Kid Muscles!
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Semper Fi and all that jazz…
  from datajunkie
• Ten Final Hearty Recommendations From Your Other Pal, Holmes!
  from The Barnacle Blog
• Two Domestic Comedies
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• J. R. Williams (1888-1957)
  from Punch in Canada
• John Campbell Cory (1867-1925)
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• The Li’l Bad Wolf in Dietary Dilemma (WDCS 59)
  from Rodney Bowcock’s Comics & Stories
• John R. Neill’s Nip and Tuck 1909
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Little Nemo 1913-04-06
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Dr. Strange: At Grips With the Giant Electru
  from Nedor-A-Day
• The Vampire Maker!
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Sun strips 4 December 1967
  from Bear Alley
• Herriman Saturday
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Freckles – 01/27/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Melvin of the Apes Saturday leftover Day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Cartoon Humor
  from Hairy Green Eyeball
• The Little Journeys of Nip and Tuck Pt. 2
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Coming Soon A Trip to the Moon
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Do You “Dunc”? selections from “Dunc ‘n’ Loo” #1 and 3, 1961/2
  from Stanley Stories
• Nip and Tuck Pt. 3
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Johnny Doughboy
  from Golden Reading
• Bernard Dibble’s “Johnny Doughboy”
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Nip and Tuck Pt. 4
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Science Fiction Pioneer
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Terror in Town (+ Crazy Blogs!)
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• The Space Treasure
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Little Nemo 1913-04-13
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Number 374 I Shagged The World!
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Freckles – 01/29/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Rufus and Flook Versus Moses Maggot 2
  from Comic Books Are Interesting Except When They Are
• Pigtales: Comedy Comics #33 1946 – Harvey Kurtzman
  from comicrazys
• The Daffy Taffy Pull (WDCS 175)
  from Rodney Bowcock’s Comics & Stories
• Chartier Le Samedi Cover
  from Punch in Canada
• More Spector Speculation Sunday Leftover Day
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Twenty-seven years before Modok
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• “The Amazing Tots of Smallville!”
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Little Nemo 1913-04-20
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Jim Ivey’s Sunday Comics
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Samuel Spaniel vs. The Carrot Addict
  from Nedor-A-Day
• He Who Laughs Last
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Oswaldo Twee
  from cul de sac
• Traitors To The Earth
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Supermouse
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Number 375 Nancy and Sluggo’s weird world
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Not Attracted to This
  from Introspective Comics
• Ten More Must-See Strips from your pal, Thrillmer
  from The Barnacle Blog
• Lickety-Whop: Captain Easy Versus Everybody Part 04
  from CR Briefings
• 80s Japanese comic strip about Wozniak, Jobs, and Apple
  from Boing Boing
• More Strips from the Past: Archie
  from Beautiful Balloons with Maggie Thompson
• When Russia was awesome (Part 1)
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Freckles – 01/26/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends