Makin’ Links! #1
FINALLY! I’ve been wanting to do a regular link-thingie on the Arf Blog since I started. What motivated me now is my promise to link back to any blogger linking to my new feature that I’m very excited about: every Friday’s THE FLYING FLICK. THE FLYIN’ FLICK will showcase a wacky, wonky, wonderful cartooning oriented video each week. I’m damn lucky, TWO of the BIGGEST and BEST blogs gave me a great and valuable and illustrated link to last Friday’s inaugural FLICK.
First to link was Dirk Deppey on his Journalista blog associated with The Comics Journal. Journalista gives in depth news can’t miss coverage every single day to the world of comics. And, BTW, Dirk ain’t afraid or too prudish to show some sexy stuff that cartoonists around the world are drawing’ up! I go to Journalista everyday and ALWAYS find something cool!
The other link that just happened today was the juggernaut site Drawn gave THE FLYING FLICK a plugola. Who would have believed a blog for illustrators and cartoonists, and in general people who like to draw, would be so immensely popular. But Drawn has much deservedly won a bunch of awards and was cited by Time magazine as one of the coolest of the cool blogs. Why? Because each and everyday the guy that started it, John Martz, and his cronies turn up amazing illustrators that are a simply a blast to eyeball!
I def visit both Journalista and Drawn every morning and you will enjoy doing the same.
If anyone else has linked lately to the Arf Blog or is going to please let me know so that I can link back. And a big thanks Dirk, John and you!
BTW, the Makin’ Links logo for this new feature incorporates the 1910 art of one my all time fave cartoonists, Eugene Zimmerman who signed his work “Zim”. I love Zim’s bad boys makin’ links! I can identify ;o)
— C. Yoe (in the funny papers)
Craigo, you boofhead!
You published the incorrect link for Journalista. It should be:
http://www.tcj.com/journalista/
The link you had took me to a rtaher, ahem, different site than intended.
Regardless, your links idea is a beauty. I love your site and enjoy the widening circle of info.
Many thanks!
Thanks, Mark! Yeah, I was a real, as you say, boofhead, but now I’ve fixed the link. Thanks again for your nice comments!
Thanks for these, Craig. Your blog is always a regular stop for me.
Great to see a ZIM drawing up there! I visited the Zim house a number of times. It’s his house, and is worth visiting to see tons of his art and some of his unique architectural touches. It’s in Horseheads, NY. His daughter kept it up for many years. She has since passed away. It was just beginning to show some signs of neglect in the early 1990s, the last time I was there.