INTERESTING LINKS: Some Twin Cites Cartoonists on KFAI’s Wave Project

Zander Cannon, Kevin Cannon, Danno Klonowski and myself were interviewed by Britt Aamodt this evening (December 14th) on KFAI’s Wave Project about cartooning. The show will be online for the next two weeks. You can hear the interview here.

Note: The broadcast mp3 begins with the Somali Oromo radio show that preceded it… it starts at 1:38 in the file.

INTERESTING LINKS: The Stuff of Life Trailer :December 12th, 2008

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I just haven’t had time for much blogging lately… so sorry for the lack of updates. I hope you’ll find this blog worth following in spite of the feast or famine nature of the postings.

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My good friends at Big Time Attic and Puny Entertainment recently completed this hilariously wonderful promotional cartoon for Big Time Attic’s new genetics graphic novel, The Stuff of Life (in collaboration with Mark Schultz).

Go here and here to see some interesting “making of” information. I can’t wait to read the book. The pages I’ve seen are stunning. I’m guessing this will probably be the prettiest educational comic ever made… and seeing this video and knowing the work of Big Time Attic, it will probably also be one of the most entertaining ones.

INTERESTING LINKS: Maxfield Parrish’s Arabian Nights at the ASIFA Hollywood Animation Archive: November 21st, 2008

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The ASIFA Hollywood Animation Archive presents Maxfield Parrish’s lush images from The Arabian Nights. Click the above image to go gawk.

INTERESTING LINKS: Andrew Loomis Composition Tutorials at The Temple of the Seven Golden Camels: November 20th, 2008

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The Temple of the Seven Golden Camels blog brings us some interesting tutorials on composition from Andrew Loomis’s out-of-print Creative Illustration book. They also provide instructions for getting all of Loomis’s books for free online as pdfs.

INTERESTING LINKS: The Time-Life Photo Gallery Hosted by Google: November 19th, 2008

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Boing Boing and Drawn! point us to the new, easily searchable, and overwhelming Time-Life photography archive hosted by Google featuring over 10 million historical images, many of which were never before published. What an amazing resource. Above is a crop from a photo I found there of Charles Schulz gleefully squirting a child with a squirt gun… click the image to go to the archive.

INTERESTING LINKS: Nightmare-Inducing Swedish Dance Band Photos from the 1970’s: November 18th, 2008

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Sometimes it is hard to believe the Seventies ever happened. Swedish 1970’s dance band photos, courtesy of the one and only Boing Boing.

INTERESTING LINKS: Top Five Fictional Comic Books at Mystery Hoard: November 14th, 2008

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Dan Clowes' Yellow Streak

TODAY’S FEATURED ITEM: Mystery Hoard presents a list of the top five fictional comic books.

INTERESTING LINKS: HOT INK Show Reviewed: November 12th, 2008

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The Hot Ink show of Minnesota Comic Art currently showing at the Minnesota Museum of American Art (which my work is improbably featured in, along with 15 other Minnesota cartoonists) has been reviewed by Britt Aamodt here. Note that you can still catch this show up until early next year sometime.

INTERESTING LINKS: Halloween Horrors Galore at Golden Age Comic Book Stories: October 31st, 2008

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Happy Halloween!

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The always wonderful Golden Age Comic Book Stories has been posting some particularly wonderful spooky images for Halloween recently. One of the J. Allen St. John Weird Tales covers is shown above. Check out the Weird Tales covers (part 1, part 2), Horror Movie Posters and Stills (part 1, part 2), Haunt of Fear covers, Vault of Horror Covers, Tales from the Crypt covers, and much more!

INTERESTING LINKS: King Features Syndicate’s 1949 Famous Artists and Writers: October 22nd, 2008

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TODAY’S FEATURED ITEM: Golden Age Comic Book Stories brings us 60 pages of the 176 page King Features Syndicate 1949 promotional booklet Famous Artists and Writers, featuring bios and rare art from their many fantastic artists at the time. Interesting to see that Otto Messmer was getting full (and proper) credit for Felix the Cat… I had previously been under the impression he had been anonymous for his whole career as creator and primary artist of Felix the Cat (in animation, comic strips and comic books!), with the sinister Pat Sullivan stealing the credit. Mickey Mouse is, however, (unsurprisingly) still credited to Walt Disney instead of the brilliant Floyd Gottfredson. Disney’s personal lack of artistic skill must have led to an awful lot of awkward situations, I imagine. What a phony. Part one here, part two here.