Kinives! Guns! Doll Man bounces from one sailor to another! I bet hair isn’t the only thing being raised on THIS dingy!

In pursuit of weird factoids for his Ripley’s Believe It or Not newspaper feature, cartoonist Robert Ripley traveled to 197 countries…more than any other person! With the wealth from the empire he created, Ripley built a huge mansion, and kept a collection of shrunken heads, backward-swimming fish, and a private harem of women collected from the four corners of the globe! Believe it or not!

As an early sponsor of The Flintstones, Winston cigarettes were hawked by Fred, Wilma and Barney in commercials. Fred even sang the Winston’s theme song! Yabba-dabba dumb!

Jackie Ormes, creator of the Torchy Brown comic strip, also created the very first commercial black doll!

I like rapper Soulja Boy, I like Disney, I like big butts, I can not lie. I LOVE this Soulja Boy Disney big butts video!

When Disney’s 1940 hallucinogenic masterpiece Fantasia was re-released in the psychedelic sixties, animator Art Babbit was asked by some hippies whether he was on drugs while making the film. “Yes, I was on drugs,” quipped Babbit, “Ex-Lax and Pepto Bismol!”

This toon was conceived by Harold Gray (1864 - 1968) to be a young boy named Otto. Captain Joseph Patterson, publisher of the New York Daily News, proclaimed, “The kid looks like a pansy. Just put a skirt on him and we’ll call him Little Orphan Annie!”

I hope she’s got health insurance. . .

Donald duck’s nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie were named after politicians Thomas Dewey and Huey Long, and Disney employee Louie Schmitt!

We’re excited to announce that there will be an Arf Panel at the New York Comic Con, Sunday April 20th at 3:00! More details to come…..