December 2010
46 posts
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Starr on Stage Friday Comic Book Day. Leonard Starr did a lot of work for the early issues of House of Mystery. He also did some western work for DC, which I will show someday. But one of the most…
Obscurity of the Day: Miss Aladdin →
Here’s a magazine cover series that doesn’t quite fit the standard mold of the era. The lion’s share of these series were romances, whereas Miss Aladdin is a fairy tale fantasy somewhat…
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The Case of the Forgotten Gem Thursday Story Strip Day. I sometimes see my blog as a storehouse for everything that has justly or unjustly been forgotten about the fifties aving to do with comcis…
Brenda the Final Story →
from the Boston Herald
Time are tough for newspapers - even fictional ones.
After chasing stories across the globe for 70 years, “Brenda Starr, Reporter” bids comic strip fans goodbye on Sunday.
“I think because of changes in the economy and changes in Brenda’s own life, like a lot of people she’s decided to reinvent herself,” strip illustrator June Brigman told the Herald last week. “We are...
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You Be The Judge Wednesday Advertising Day. The best comic strip ads were often done for cigarettes.
FUTURE PAST: THE YEAR IN REPRINTS →
By TCJ.com Guttergeek
Perhaps the best thing about comics this year was the celebration of its past. Until quite recently, immersing oneself in the early history of sequential comics was a specialized and often rarified affair, involving compulsive (and often brutally expensive) collecting and storage or trips to one of a handful of academic libraries...
Obscurity of the Day: Songs of Christmas →
Hope you all had a good Christmas and Festivus! I for one had enough holiday cheer to keep me warm despite a really long cold snap here in Florida (yeah, I know, all you folks up north feel terribly sorry for me). So here in the afterglow of another holiday season, let’s have one more Christmas feature before…
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It’s A Wonderful Strip Tuesday Comic Strip Day. I have shown and confessed my appreciation for and fascination with the work of Stan Lee here before. Although he was never the innovator the media have made him out to be, he was a remarkable man and a driven and sometimes inspired writer. Lately, his reputation has suffered somewhat of a backlash for his and other’s claims that he...
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Comix now linked on Facebook Fan Page →
Ok, facebook followers. We just added a new feature to the facebook page, Linked the comix to the page for easy access. Just click on portfolio and let it load and wam you get them all. You now have access to all the comix on facebook! Hope this makes you happy. Also December is has been a slow month for us, expect many new goodies in 2011
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Have A Merry My Christmas card this year is in Dutch. It features the new strip I am doing with Pieter Hogenbirk for the Dutch bi-weekly Eppo about two hasbeen comedians.
A Christmas Fantasy: Day 1 →
Here’s your Stripper’s Guide Christmas story for 2010. A Christmas Fantasy was the Central Press Association’s entry for 1939, sort of an alternate take on Dicken’s Christmas Carol story. William…
D#087 - The Decoy →
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A Close Shave Monday Cartoon Day. A couple of weeks ago, I showed you the work of cartoonist Art Gates, who did a military cartoon more than ten years after the war. Fred Wilkinson had a…
Herriman Saturday →
Sunday, December 29 1907 — The year comes to a close, marking George Herriman’s first full calendar year at the LA Examiner. The top cartoon, a full page width dilly that…
