Bookin’ Rinks # 487
We start today with a whole big bunch of brand new and increasingly unlikely team-ups for Batman in non-existant Brave and Bold issues. http://braveandboldlost.blogspot.com/ Lots of nifty twenties and thirties vintage cartoons at the Magic Whistle featuring the likes of Syd Hoff, Charles Addamsand William Steig. http://themagicwhistle.blogspot.com/2011/09/cartoon-cavalade-1928-1939.html Pappy serves us some vintage [...]
Kingin’ Kings # 351
Last week was a big week for fans of Laurel and Hardy what with TCM having a massive marathon. Now we start this week with some rare Laurel and Hardy DC comics from the 1970′s. http://diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2011/01/sunday-funnies-rare-laurel-and-hardy-by.html That last story was from the one and only DC issue but here, from a piece I posted in [...]
Shakin’ Shakes # 343
Here’s an entire 1978 issue of Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery featuring three not bad stories, the highlight being one drawn by the Frazetta-influenced Sandy Plunkett who did far too little comics work. http://www.goldkeystories.com/2011/01/boris-karloff-tales-of-mystery-no-87.html The Magic Whistle once again shares some sixties panel cartoons from masters of the field including Arnold Roth and later children’s [...]
makin’ links # 215
Craig’s latest press release for The Golden Collection of Klassic Krazy Kool Kids Komics! looked surprisingly like one of my Makin’ Links pieces so it seemed a natural to make it one today! So…here’s Craig himself! Hi! Following are some reviews by some esteemed gentlemen of The Golden Collection of Klassic Krazy Kool Kids Komics [...]
Makin’ Links # 181
The first story I turned to in Craig’s new book, The Golden Treasury of Klassic Krazy Kool Kid’s Komics, was the one by children’s book illustrator Syd Hoff, who I did not know had started out as a cartoonist. You can order Craig’s book right up there in the upper left hand corner of this [...]
Circus Freak! And the Winner is…
We have a winner–and a few wieners who didn’t follow directions, but what the heck, some of my best friends are hot dogs! And here are the 1938 Circus The Comic Riot mystery artists revealed… (click for a closer look Artist #1: I think everyone got Basil Wolverton right. The funny-style Disk-Eyes the Detective strip [...]
How to Order Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings Limited Edition–It’s EASY!
(click for a closer look) Above illustration from the book by Joe Palooka’s Ham Fisher. The Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings Limited Edition is hardcover, has an signed, illustrated bookplate by Dean Yeagle and myself, and 16 pages of extra art by these cartoonists…Wesley Morse, Milton Caniff, Joe Shuster, Bob Kane, Paul Murry, Rube Goldberg, Dan [...]
