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Interesting Links: June 32, 2007

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Interesting Links: June 21, 2007

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150 Greatest Cartoonists Countdown: #125 Evan Dorkin

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#125 Evan Dorkin

Click the above image to go to a larger version on the site I found it on.

Evan Dorkin’s probably best known for Milk and Cheese, the above pictured “Dairy Products Gone Bad.” Those strips are funny, although formulaic (as Dorkin certainly admits) and are best in small doses. I much prefer his varied strips in his ongoing comic Dork!. He’s not only consistently funny, but he frequently packs his pages with enough panels to make your eyes bleed and enough gags to make you seek the heimlich maneuver. My favorite comics I’ve read by him are his hilarious strips about the Eltingville Comic-Book, Science-Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Role-Playing Club… which you should really not miss if you grew up obsessed with any of the subjects in the Eltingville club’s moniker.

Click here to go to Evan Dorkin’s (and Sarah Dyer’s) House of Fun website.

Click here to go to Evan Dorkin’s blog.

Click here to read the lambiek.net entry on Evan Dorkin.

Crumbling Paper: And Her Name Was Maud (1906) by Frederick Opper (strip #2) and No Wedding Bells For Him by James Swinnerton

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Although he is best known today for Happy Hooligan (which we’ve been reprinting examples of recently) Frederick Opper was responsible for a number of popular strips in the early 20th century. Here’s an example of Frederick Opper’s strip And Her Name Was Maud from 1906. This page also contains a bonus strip… No Wedding Bells For Him by Jimmy Swinnerton. Eventually we’ll be posting a number of strips by Mr. Swinnerton as well. Click the image to read the strip.

Here are some other Opper strips from Coconino Classics.

Here are some other Opper strips at Barnacle Press.

The Patrick McDonnell Center for Cartoon Studies Commencement Speech

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Check out this inspiring commencement speech to the first graduating class of The Center for Cartoon Studies by the great Patrick McDonnell at Tom Spurgeon’s excellent Comics Reporter Blog.

Mr. Spurgeon has also reviewed a recent run (May 13-19) of McDonnell’s Mutts strips having to do with writing a commencement speech here, one of which can be seen above.

150 Greatest Cartoonists Countdown: #126 Dennis Eichhorn

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#126 Dennis Eichhorn

Dennis Eichhorn is one of the few cartoonists on this list that doesn’t draw… his comics have been illustrated by many of the best cartoonists around, though. Eichhorn’s stories would still be engaging if they were drawn in crayon, however… he’s one of the most interesting autobiographical cartoonists around, largely because he has had the good fortune of living an extremely interesting life. Just thinking about his sloe gin and beer story still makes me laugh. Some of his excellent series Real Stuff was collected in the book pictured above a few years ago (I think it is out of print, but there appear to be a number of used copies available on amazon).

Click here to go to the lambiek.net entry on Dennis Eichhorn.

Crumbling Paper: Harry J. Tuthill’s The Bungle Family

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At the request of MJ, here are a couple scans I made of Harry Tuthill’s The Bungle Family Sundays. MJ was nice enough to send scans of a couple dailies he had as well, which are also below. Thanks MJ!

Above from October 29, 1933.

Above from November 12, 1933.

Click the above panels to go to the strips they come from.

Click here to read the entry on Harry Tuthill at Lambiek.net.

Click here to read the entry on The Bungle Family at Toonopedia.com.

A number of excellent scans of strips can be found at comicartfans.com by searching for Tuthill. Like this hand-colored original Sunday from 1929. Check out the wild panel layout on this one.

Here are more strips at comicstripfan.com.

Also note that Mr. Tuthill is one of the cartoonists featured in Dan Nadel’s recent excellent book Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries 1900-1969.