INTERESTING LINKS: Cartoon Censorship in 1939: January 19th, 2009

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Bear Alley shows us a sympathetic 1939 article on cartoon censorship from Look magazine. Featuring many amusing illustrated examples of the arbitrary and absurd sorts of decisions that typify censorship.

WARNING: Contains graphic depictions of cow titties.

HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : F.M. Howarth in Scribner’s at Unattended Baggage : January 16th, 2008

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Unattended Baggage brings us some rare F.M. Howarth (author of the wonderful Lulu and Leander strip which I have featured numerous times on this site) cartoons from Scribner’s Magazine. See them here and here. Both Howarth and Frederick Opper (Happy Hooligan) were magazine cartoonists who adopted a simpler style for their transitions to the newspaper comics page (not that Howarth’s style ever looks simple)… I wonder if this was a common phenomenon at the time?

INTERESTING LINKS: georgeherriman.com: January 16th, 2008

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Easy pick today. There is much of interest to see at the new George Herriman website, courtesy of Craig Yoe.

INTERESTING LINKS: webcomics.com : January 14th, 2008

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For the last few months, webcomics.com has been posting a ton of excellent cartooning lessons… it is quickly becoming one of the best places to look on the web for this sort of information (along with the Cartoonist Conspiracy’s Cartooning Lessons rss feed, which you can find here). Many of the articles are user submitted, so if you have information to share, it is a good opportunity to do so. Go check it out!

HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Tom K Tells it Like it is : January 14th, 2008

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Oy, another out of control long, long list. Been a while, huh? Anyone still reading? Well, welcome back!

Let me just dispense with the illusion/self-delusion that this blog is going to be updated on a regular basis. Starting now, it will be updated whenever I damn well feel like it, and only then, just as it always has been, only with no pretense of operating otherwise. It shall always be feast or famine in these waters. Are you with me, or are you against me?!?

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On his Transatlantis blog, my friend Tom Kaczynski hits the nail on the head…