HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!
Valentine’s is for lovers and today is the first day for a new blog for lovers… of Arf. Arf in my mind is all good things related to comics and cartoons. Walt Disney said, “I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.” I feel just like that, except I’m not monogamous. Or should I say mouse-ogamous?
One look at Betty Boop makes me want to boop-oop-a-doop. Popeye floats my boat. Krazy Kat drives me… yes, krazy.
The above Valentine (circa 1910) is by R.F. Outcault, whose character, the Yellow Kid, jump-started the newspaper comics. TODAY’S BIG NEWS ANNOUNCEMENT: In the next Arf book, Arf Museum, there will be an event of historic proportions. There will be ten, one hundred-year-old, unpublished Yellow Kid
paintings and two unpublished drawings by Outcault in glorious color! There’s a preview of the art and all of the Arf Museum in the upper left hand corner. Tell your friends…and lovers.
— C. Yoe (in the funny papers)
