September 2011
49 posts
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Whoa Nellie Friday Comic Book Day. I haven’t done a lot of Howie Post lately, so here are a fw storie from Nurse Nellie #32. We do not only get the whip ‘em out graphics of Mr. Post, but also the…
Alley Oop - 1936 →
ilovecomix updated gallery ‘Alley Oop - 1936’
Ink-Slinger Profiles: T.S. Sullivant →
Thomas Starling Sullivant was born in Columbus, Ohio on November 4, 1854, according to a passport application issued on July 7, 1873, and the book, 200 Years of American…
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Jungle Comics Thursday Story Strip Day. I have two more of the early Bob Lubbers Tarzan stories, as well as a long run of his Sundays. So I’d better start sharing them. Here is the third story in…
09-14-11 →
ilovecomix updated gallery ‘09-14-11’
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Science Faction Wednesday Special Features Day. After Showing the odd New! feature by Gene Fawcette this week, I went back to find more of his Our New Age feature. Or at least, the feature was…
Alley Oop - 2000 →
ilovecomix updated gallery ‘Alley Oop - 2000’
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The Wizard of Idiots Saturday Leftover Day. I just got the new Wizard of Id collection from Titan. Nice enough book, but as with their Beetle Bailey book I wonder why they chose this 1971 for…
Herriman Saturday →
Sunday, February 16 1908 — The Great White Fleet is underway from it’s last South American port of call, and headed up the coast to California. Every coastal city in California is…
Sir George Newnes, Bart.(1851-1910) →
Sir George Newnes, Bart., was the son of the Rev. T. Mold Newnes, of Matlock, and was born at Matlock Bath, Derbyshire 13 March 1851. George Newnes had been running a…
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Go West, Young Ditko Saturday Leftover Day. Much of Steve Ditko’s now copyrightfree material for Charlton in the late fifties has been reprinted over the past decade. Most of it consists of…
London Art Schools 1925 →
Advertisements for London schools of cartooning and sketching from 1925. A 1914 article by John Hassall, ‘How I Began,’ is posted HERE. Hassall illustrations HERE.
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It Couldn’t Have Been More Easy Friday Comic Day. George Tuska and Pete Morisi wer good friends. Their careers were more intertwined then we may know. Morisi’s style obviously is heavily…
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Ending With Scratch Thursday Story Strip Day. Lou Fine is an artist who later work is sriously underrated in my opinion. As revered as his work in comics in the forties is, his more sedate…
Ink-Slinger Profiles: Jerry Stewart →
Gerald W. “Jerry” Stewart was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas on May 18, 1923, according to the Social Security Death Index and an obituary in the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel (Indiana) on…
Bagford Ballads →
Bagford Ballads: Devol’s last Farewel, Hertford: Printed for the Ballad Society, by Stephen Austin & Sons, 1878. An erudite look at the songs and ballads of Claude Duval with a…
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Nothing To Get Upset About Wednesday Advertising Day. I have paid attention to the Postum and Mr. Coffee Nerve ads pretty thoroughly in the early years of this blog. But it still run into a new…
Our Boarding House - 1926 →
ilovecomix updated gallery ‘Our Boarding House - 1926’
News of Yore: Death of Walter R. Bradford →
The Camera, July 1925
Walter R. Bradford, the creator of those inimitable cartoons of the “Pickleweights,” “Scow,” “John Dubalong” and “Jingling Johnson,” which featured for so many…
Edward L. Wheeler (1854?-1885) Part II →
Our friend Mike Saavedra shot the photos below in Deadwood, South Dakota in the Spring of 2007. The Hotel sits above the Deadwood Dick Saloon. The third photo was taken “nearly on…
A Book Review →
This photo is the main reason to buy “Krazy Kat & The Art of George Herriman: A Celebration” by Craig Yoe, published by Abrams Comicarts, New York in 2011. It is on page 160, and is a…
Alley Oop - 1986 →
ilovecomix updated gallery ‘Alley Oop - 1986’
Obscurity of the Day: The Almost Family →
More Walter Bradford today! This time The Almost Family, a Sunday strip he did for the Philadelphia North American from July 22 to November 25 1906. A relatively simple…
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Television Circus Monday Cartoon Day. One of my fovorite cartoon series and certainly one that made merespect the work of Family Circus artist Bill Keane a lot more…
Li'l Abner - 1960 →
ilovecomix updated gallery ‘Li’l Abner - 1960’
Obscurity of the Day: That Smith Boy →
Here’s a real serious obscurity by one of my favorite funny page pioneers, Walter R. Bradford. Bradford’s work is usually certifiably nutty, really inventive and off the wall. That Smith…
S#055 - The Hide-Out →
Funny how Mandrake never believes Narda when she witness some strange occurance, only to tell her he’ll never doubt her again when she is proven right. Then comes another story an he’s…
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Unseen Is Not Unloved Saturday Rarity Day Paul Tumey has one of the most interesting comic book blogs on the internet. Well, that is not actually true, he has not one, but two blogs. He has been…
Li'l Abner - 1962 →
ilovecomix updated gallery ‘Li’l Abner - 1962’
Cartoons from Lilliput →
Cartoons from Lilliput, a British humour magazine, for November 1940.
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Cave Man Friday Comic Book Day. Earlier this week I showed a panel strip from the late forties that might have been drawn by Lee Elias. To compare, I have here some of his latest work. Not really…
Ink-Slinger Profiles: Ed Goewey →
Edwin A. “Ed” Goewey was born in Albany, New York in July 1871. Goewey’s father was a resident of Albany when he received his patent for an improvement to a tea kettle design, as recorded in…
Li'l Abner - 1935 →
ilovecomix updated gallery ‘Li’l Abner - 1935’
Ink-Slinger's Profile: Fred Morgan →
Frederick “Fred” Morgan was born in England in February 1865, according to the 1900 U.S. Federal Census; his birth year differs in later censuses. He has not been found in the 1880 census….
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Make War, Not Love Wednesday Advertising Day. This is slowly turning into an oddity week, which won’t do a lot of good for the traffic figures to my blog. But these are too good to pass over….
Li'l Abner - 1957 →
ilovecomix updated gallery ‘Li’l Abner - 1957’
Ink-Slinger Profiles: F.R. Morgan →
Fred Royal Morgan was born in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin on February 8, 1885, according to Wisconsin Births, 1820-1907 at Ancestry.com. In the 1900 U.S. Federal Census, he was the…
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Top Tip Testing Monday Cartoon Day. Followrs of this blog will know there are two things I like above all: odd strips or panels and artists influenced by Milt Caniff. So here is one 1948 panel…
Edward Greey (1835-1888) →
THE INSCRUTABLE MR. GREEY By E. M. Sanchez-Saavedra One of the more unusual authors of nineteenth-century sensational literature was Edward Greey (1835-1888), an English…
S#003 - Land of the Little People →
First time I add a Sunday in color. Courtesy of our spanish friend Teofobicus. Number of comics in the archive: 145 Next upload: S#055 - The Hide-Out
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The Kings of Bad Gags Saturday Leftover Day. For the last year I have been writing a gag strip for the Dutch comic biweekly Eppo. It is called The Bandini’s and it’s drawn by cartoonist Pieter…
Lee Falk Storyteller →
Some interesting news for Lee Falk’s worldwide fanbase. Lee Falk Storyteller makes its debut on 23 Sept 2011 at the Gothenburg Book Fair. The book is available in English and Swedish…
Norm, I hardly knew ya →
Norm Gottfredson, who had the upstairs office when he was part owner of Fred Calvert Productions , earned my awe and respect. I didn’t realize until later that he was Floyd…
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Foley Artist Friday Comic Book Day. In my unending quest to showcase the magnificent work Joe Kubert did before he became known for his war stories at DC, I already mentioned Foley of the…
Alley Oop - 1970 →
ilovecomix updated gallery ‘Alley Oop - 1970’
Obscurity of the Day: The Wrangle Sisters →
The gorgeous cartoonist Marjorie Organ specialized in (what else) strips about beautiful ladies. We’ve already covered her interesting story on another post for Little Reggie and the…
Essay RG →
Huib van Opstal (from Amsterdam, the Netherlands) wrote, designed, and published this essential history ‘Essay RG; Het fenomeen Hergé’ (Essay RG; The Hergé Phenomenon), the…
Ink-Slinger Profiles: GAR →
GAR was the pseudonym of Raymond H. Garman who was born in Crete, Illinois on August 7, 1873, according to a passport application filed on December 20, 1919. However, the 1900 U.S….
Alley Oop - 1934 →
ilovecomix updated gallery ‘Alley Oop - 1934’