Welcome to Fantastic Felix Friday in which the iconic cartoon cat is justly celebrated on blogs throughout the land to highlight Craig’s just published Felix the Cat: the Great Comic Book Tails. That scamp Felix will be popping up throughout the blogosphere as the day progresses but here are a few early starters!

And Everything Else, Too starts us off with a story from the book itself, Felix in Roboteria, in which Felix can’t convince his porcine friend that his adventures are real without taking him on one to see for himself!

http://andeverythingelsetoo.blogspot.com/2010/09/roboteria-fantastic-felix-friday.html

The Horrors of It All offers Felix in an appropriately themed Mask Bawl complete with witches and ghosts and other nicely timed Halloween-oriented goblins as we move into that season.

http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com/2010/09/mask-bawl-fantastic-felix-friday.html

Over at my own place, Four Color Shadows, here’s a not-in-the-book story entitled Felix Frees a Freeze. Felix’s comic book tails have been published by various companies over the years but this was from a late 1948 Dell issue of Felix the Cat.

http://fourcolorshadows.blogspot.com/2010/09/fantastic-felix-friday-felix-cat.html

Finally, Pappy jumped the gun by a week but presented one of my all-time favorite Felix tails when he posted the not-in-the-book Misdeal from Dell’s first Felix issue in late 1947 which you can read here.

http://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2010/09/number-809-felix-cat-felix-cat-comic.html

From the press release: Craig Yoe edited the book, which is jam-packed with rare Felix art, ephemera, animation insights, and, of course, a plethora of comic book stories by Otto Messmer, Joe Oriolo, and Jim Tyer. Yoe says, “I am jumping out of my skin with excitement that this bodacious blogging event will turn thousands of people onto the great Felix art and stories that those genius cat cartoonists drew.” Don Oriolo, the son of Joe Oriolo, and head of Felix the Cat Productions, wrote the heartfelt introduction to “Felix: The Great Comic Book Tails.” About “Fantastic Felix Friday,” bountiful blogging of all things Felix, Oriolo shouted a joyful “Righty-O!”

Hopefully this all whets your appetite for more Felix! You can order Craig’s book elsewhere on this very page!