Here’s another example of F.M. Howarth’s strip The Love of Lulu and Leander from 1905. Click the image to read the strip.
You can see more examples of this strip (and many other classic comics) at Barnacle Press.
Steven Weissman’s does great kid comics in an almost early Charles Schulz big-head style… however his kids are not the Peanuts gang. His heroes are Li’l Bloody, a young vampire, Pull-Apart Boy, Kid Medusa, and a gang of other young monstrous miscreants. Also like Schulz, Weissman is a master of character-based humor. So his comics are kind of like Peanuts, only with violent mayhem and death. So, basically, it isn’t like Peanuts at all. Never mind. You can find many excellent books by Mr. Weissman at Fantagraphics, buy original art from him at the Comic Art Collective. He also has a blog.
Click here to read the entry about Steven Weissman on lambiek.net.
Here’s another example of Frederick Opper’s strip Happy Hooligan from 1917. 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.
Chapter eight of Kevin Cannon’s fabulous epic 288 hour comic serial, Far Arden, is online, with more ripping polar bear action!
Click here to start reading at chapter eight.
Click here to start at the beginning.
Click here to read more about Kevin Cannon’s mad, mad project.
Alas, Bill Wray has apparently decided to abandon the world of cartooning for landscape painting. His comics are hilarious, gleefully offensive and beautifully/crazily drawn. .. most notably in his Dark Horse comics Big Blown Baby and Hellboy Junior. He also is well known for his memorable work on Ren and Stimpy. You can still buy copies of Big Blown Baby and Hellboy Junior on the Dark Horse Comics site.
Click here to read the entry about Bill Wray on lambiek.net.
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.
I wrote about Mr. Smith the other week… he’s the man behind the flash site vectorpark.com. More relevant to our current post, he’s the fella behind the comics in The Ganzfeld Reader #1. Yes, I am including him based on that one book… he is that good. His comics are like nothing else I’ve ever seen. The closest comparison I can come up with is he’s kind of like a cross between Jim Woodring, Mat Brinkman and Pac Man, but that’s not really accurate. His comics are weird, simple and spooky… they feel like they take place in a vacuum. I really hope he makes more comics some day… I have a feeling he would be a lot higher on this ridiculous list pretty quickly.
Above image taken from The Ganzfeld website (which was also designed by Smith).
