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150 Greatest Cartoonists Countdown: #127 Milt Gross

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#127 Milt Gross

Click on the above image to see the full Count Screwloose strip I scanned from November 23, 1930. Rudy Megaphone is a satire of singer Rudy Vallee, by the way.

Milt Gross’ comics drip slapstick. I don’t think Milt Gross aspired to do much with his comics other than make people laugh… and he was very good at it. That said, he wrote what may be the first graphic novel, She Done Him Wrong (a.k.a. Heart of Gold… recently reprinted by Fantagraphics). I wish someone would do a nice big reprinting of his newspaper work. Don’t miss the ASIFA Hollywood Animation Archive link below… great stuff!

See a number of great scans of Milt Gross comics at the ASIFA Hollywood Animation Archive here.

See some Milt Gross comics on Bugpowder here.

Read the Toonopedia entry on Milt Gross here.

Read the Lambiek Biography of Milt Gross here.

150 Greatest Cartoonists Countdown: #128 Yoshihiro Tatsumi

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#128 Yoshihiro Tatsumi

Drawn and Quarterly’s recent publishing of the work of Yoshihiro Tatsumi is a revelation (in two volumes so far edited by American cartoonist Adrian Tomine, The Push Man and Abandon the Old in Tokyo). This guy was an underground cartoonist in Japan around the same time as the underground cartoonists in America and Europe were getting started (although he was unaware of their work)… and he has a huge body of work going up to the present day. His artwork in the two D&Q volumes is gorgeous, and the stories are bizarre, entertaining and often disturbing. It’s thrilling to discover such a great cartoonist that I was totally unaware of. I look forward to reading more of his work.

Click here to read the lambiek.net entry on Yoshihiro Tatsumi.

Crumbling Paper: Our Antediluvian Ancestors by Frederick Opper (strip #4)

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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 Our Antediluvian Ancestors. Click the image to read the strip.

Here are some other Opper strips from Coconino Classics, including more examples of Our Antediluvian Ancestors.

Here are some other Opper strips at Barnacle Press.

150 Greatest Cartoonists Countdown: #129 Dori Seda

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#129 Dori Seda

Dori Seda told a lot of wild autobiographical stories & is among the most fun autobiographical cartoonists I’ve read. Wish she had lived longer! You can get her complete works in one unfortunately slim book, pictured above.

Go here to see the Dori Seda website.

Click here to read the lambiek.net entry on Dori Seda.

Click the above image to see the full-size version on the site I found it on.

Crumbling Paper: Our Antediluvian Ancestors (1904) by Frederick Opper (strip #3)

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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 Our Antediluvian Ancestors from 1904. This one is pretty sorely wounded, but it’s a particularly funny one. Click the image to read the strip.

Here are some other Opper strips from Coconino Classics, including more examples of Our Antediluvian Ancestors.

Here are some other Opper strips at Barnacle Press.