{"id":1146,"date":"2008-09-08T08:26:07","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T16:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2008-09-08T08:27:56","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T16:27:56","slug":"hey-kids-comics-the-shenanigan-kids-flip-the-frog-particularly-odd-comic-strips-war-with-ants-and-more-september-8th-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/08\/hey-kids-comics-the-shenanigan-kids-flip-the-frog-particularly-odd-comic-strips-war-with-ants-and-more-september-8th-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : The Shenanigan Kids, Flip the Frog, Particularly Odd Comic Strips, War with Ants and More : September 8th, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

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John Adcock continues to post great stuff on his Yesterday’s Papers<\/em><\/a> and Yesterday’s Papers Archive<\/em><\/a> blogs, and brings us more strange ghosted daily Katzenjammer<\/em> strips… these ones are utterly free of character, style or artistry, and ran under the title The Shenanigan Twins<\/em> (apparently due to WWI anti-German sentiments… the old title returned soon after the war), still under Rudolph Dirks credit. The “gags” were presumably just lifted out of some old joke book… backgrounds are nowhere to be seen… hardly any violence either. Even the German ach-cents are gone! These strips are bland before their time, and would be right at home on a modern comics page.<\/p>\n

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He also posts a Katzenjammer strip he suspects is pencilled (not inked) by Frederick Opper<\/a>, which seems very likely…<\/p>\n

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That’s not all! Here is a well done Mutt & Jeff<\/em> clone called Hitt & Runn<\/em>… apparently four-letter names ending in double letters is a crucial part of the ingredients to making a successful clone, even if the names are totally improbable.<\/p>\n

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And some rare, crude, very early E.C. Segar…<\/p>\n

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And more! Just go to his blogs and check them out.<\/p>\n

Barnacle Press<\/em><\/a> brings us another great list of greatest hits… Ten Particularly Odd Comic Strips from Barnacle Press.<\/a> The Handy Man From Timbuctoo<\/em><\/a> makes the list, naturally. Click on the below image from the bizarre Goops<\/em> to go there.<\/p>\n

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Get out your crayons! Comicrazys<\/a><\/em> manages to dig up ANOTHER Flip the Frog<\/em> coloring book! Where do they find this stuff? I gotta print these for my daughter…<\/p>\n

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And, finally, Karswell at The Horrors of it All<\/em><\/a> brings us World War III With the Ants<\/em> from Captain Science<\/a><\/em> #6<\/a>… this story has some great, inventive layouts. The artist is apparently unknown… can anyone identify the artist (in their comments?):<\/p>\n

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