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Far Arden Chapter Seven

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Chapter seven of Kevin Cannon’s epic 288 hour comic, Far Arden, is online, and continues to get better and better… Kevin is blowing me away with this stuff every month. You would think, producing this stuff under such time constraints (all chapters drawn in 24 hours) that something would suffer… art, storytelling, plot, composition, layouts, design… hell, lettering! Kevin continues to make it all flow perfectly and beautifully, and make it look deceptively easy.

Click here to start reading at chapter seven.

Click here to start at the beginning.

Click here to read more about Kevin Cannon’s mad, mad project.

Click here to cheer Kevin on in his comments.

Crumbling Paper: Happy Hooligan (1905) by Frederick Opper (strip #3)

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Here’s another example of Frederick Opper’s strip Happy Hooligan from 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 are some other Happy Hooligan examples from Bugpowder.

Here are some other Opper strips from Coconino Classics.

Interesting Links: April 23, 2007

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Of Muppets and Men: The Making of the Muppet Show

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I’m a big fan of the Muppets… I was indoctrinated from an early age with lots of Sesame Street. The early Muppets stuff I think is some of the most fun and inventive stuff I’ve seen done with the television medium.

Here is the first part of a very cool behind the scenes documentary on the Muppet Show (with links to the other 5 parts below)… I haven’t had time to watch the whole thing yet, but if you’re into puppetry, you could learn a lot from this.

It’s pretty facinating (and somewhat disturbing) to see all these muppets with their puppeteers, since the puppeteers are such excellent artists you normally forget they are puppets, and see them as living things.

Definitely not for the little kids! Don’t kill the magic!

Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6

Comic Books and Your Little Brain

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It’s came to my attention today that comic books can hurt your brain.

Here’s Jerry Lewis on the effects of comic books on the brain in the movie Artists and Models.

You can find other clips from the film on youtube as well.

Boing Boing via Joey Manley called my attention to this article about a disturbing entry on comics from the Illustrated World Encyclopedia of 1966.

Read the full text of the encyclopedia entry here.

I will be burning all of my comic books this weekend. I suggest you do the same… or you may end up like this:

Monkey of the Week, April 20, 2007: Arabic Gorilla on the Loose

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I don’t know anything about this Arabic movie, but I randomly watched some of it and found a gorilla 25.5 minutes in, and he clearly needed to be nominated the Monkey of the Week.

Yes, I know, you say, a gorilla is not technically a monkey. I am not interested in your semantic technicalities. You want to think gorillas aren’t monkeys, well, you better go start your own damn blog. This is my blog, and here gorillas are monkeys, goddammit. Hell, I may even elect a lemur someday. Week. Whatever.

There’s a nice musical number 45 minutes in as well. The gorilla comes back for the action packed conclusion as well.

Interesting Links: April 20, 2007

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700 Things: (Pirates) #10: Ol’ Pinkeye

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Here’s my contribution to the 700 Pirates project from the larger 700 Things project.

Pirate #10: Ol’ Pinkeye.

As with many pirates, Ol’ Pinkeye was shanghaied at an early age, forced to serve under the infamous Captain Bilgewater as a cabin boy on his decrepit vessel The Syphilitic Sue. An orphan all his life, Ol’ Pinkeye had no home to long for, and circumstance made him a fast home of the seven seas.

His inflamed eye is not the product of conjunctivitis, as his name would imply. He actually is a victim of eye-scurvy… indeed, it could easily be cured with citrus, and Ol’ Pinkeye is well aware of this. However, Ol’ Pinkeye refuses to eat anything but salted pork and that which the sea provides, raw weepy eyeball be damned.