Here’s another example of F.M. Howarth’s strip The Love of Lulu and Leander from 1904. Click the image to read the strip.
You can see more examples of this strip (and many other classic comics) at Barnacle Press.
Click the above image to see the full-size version on the site I found it on.
Frank Quitely’s work is usually wild, fast-paced, cinematic and detailed… with a strong dose of trippy cartooniness bending it at the edges. He is a frequent collaborator with author Grant Morrison, and they do great stuff together. My favorite thing they have collaborated on is the brilliant Flex Mentallo, which tragically will probably never be reprinted due to legal pressure from Charles Atlas, if you can believe that.
Click here to see the entry on Frank Quitely at lambiek.net.
Here’s another example of Frederick Opper’s strip Happy Hooligan from June 18, 1905. Click the image to read the strip.
You can see more examples of Happy Hooligan (and many other classic comics) at Barnacle Press. Here are some other Opper strips at Barnacle Press.
Here’s another example of F.M. Howarth’s strip The Love of Lulu and Leander from 1906. Click the image to read the strip.
You can see more examples of this strip (and many other classic comics) at Barnacle Press.
J.H. Williams III collaboration with writer Alan Moore on Promethea was beautiful and mind-bending… some of the most gorgeously drawn meta-comics ever attempted. Being a super-genius, Moore gets much of the (well-deserved) credit for the success of Promethea, but few other artists could have done so much with his psychedelic scripts.
Click the above image to see the full-size version on the site I found it on.
Archer Prewitt‘s Sof’ Boy is hilarious and beautifully drawn and designed… Sof’ Boy is perpetually the victim of extreme violence, but to our semi-oblivious hero, this violence comes as naturally as the breeze going by. Sof’ Boy is kind of like if Casper the Friendly Ghost couldn’t figure out how to die, and was forced to walk among the living as a goony ball of dough in limbo, with bowery bums, prostitutes and hungry sewer rats. Like his friend Chris Ware, Prewitt has a great eye for design, and the Sof’ Boy books always look beautiful. Unfortunately, a new issue only happens every couple of years or so… they are always worth the wait, though.
Click the above image to see the full-size version on the site I found it on.
Click here to read the entry on Archer Prewitt at lambiek.net.