Here’s another example of Frederick Opper’s strip Happy Hooligan from January 15, 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.
After her impressive and highly disturbing debut Daddy’s Girl, Miss Drechsler went on to create an excellent, moody, duotone-colored comic book called Nowhere for Drawn and Quarterly. These comics have been collected in the book Summer of Love. Note that Summer of Love is currently available for a 50% discount on the Drawn and Quarterly website, including a softcover, hardcover and limited edition version.
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.
Pictured above: Tiny Pirate, Monkey of The Seven Seas, drawn by Ape Lad
Ape Lad (aka Adam Koford) is easily the most prolific cartoonist in the previously mentioned 700 projects… he is also by far one of the best. He actually drew versions of all 700 of the 700 hobos single-handedly… and then drew 100 more!
When he isn’t participating in the 700 projects, what does he do? He draws, apparently! Check out his wonderful Hobotopia blog here. He is currently drawing comissioned monkey postcards, and they are all quite wonderful… and cheap! Only 20 bones, you provide a name and he draws it, full color. I’m ordering mine tonight. Bingo Bango and his Magic Fez, if you were wondering.
Also notable: Ape Lad has invented an interesting cartoonist parlour game… the one hour alphabet. His one hour alphabets are much, much better than the vast majority of a-z children’s books that I’ve read (and believe me, I’ve read a LOT of them in the last year)… and he did them in an hour! I gotta try that game some time.
To see much, much more of Ape Lad’s work, here is a link to his huge, amazing flickr pool.
Here’s another example of Frederick Opper’s strip Happy Hooligan from 1904. 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.
Alex Toth had an amazing eye for simplification and composition. His streamlined character designs for television animation are legendary, and extremely influential. He’s the man who designed Space Ghost.
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#149 Art Adams
Art Adams got his start working at Marvel comics, notably creating the memorable character Longshot. Adams has a lush and detailed style won him a legion of fans from the beginning of his career. His masterpiece (so far) is probably Monkeyman and O’Brien, which was published and collected by Dark Horse Comics. He has also done a couple of wonderful Gumby comics with Bob Burden (the creator of Flaming Carrot), and did a recent pinup in this year’s Gumby Free Comic Book Day comic. He recently did a fun series called Jonni Future in the pages of Alan Moore’s Tom Strong’s Terrific Tales. You can find out more about Mr. Adams in his wikipedia entry.
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Here’s another example of Rube Goldberg‘s strip Boob McNutt (along with a header strip called Bill), this one from January 5, 1930. Note that this strip also includes Goldberg’s characters Mike and Ike… they look alike! Note that this strip contains offensive racial depictions… if this sort of thing offends you I suggest you avoid reading it. Click the image to read the strip.
You can see more examples of this strip (and many other classic comics) at Coconino Classics.
Fans of Chris Ware should dig this…