Little Nemo in Slumberland‘s creator, Winsor McCay, had an equally impressive career as an editorial cartoonist and here’s an absolute ton of evidence as to just how good he was at it.

http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com/2010/12/winsor-mccay-1867-1934-as-things-change.html

Leonard Starr is best known as the veteran cartoonist who did On Stage for decades and then revived Little Orphan Annie. Here we see a look at his 1950′s comic book work on National’s Ghost Breaker series.

http://allthingsger.blogspot.com/2010/12/starr-on-stage-friday-comic-book-day.html

This video appears to be an early nineties clip from some sort of children’s show. We see artist Dick Locher penciling and inking a Dick Tracy Sunday strip and making a color guide, then we see the various stages of coloring and printing required (at that time at least) to get it to the newspaper

http://booksteveslibrary.blogspot.com/2010/12/dick-tracy-from-pencil-to-paper.html

Finally this year, we end with some lovely and rare art by Al Williamson, one of many we lost this past year, in two unsold samples from what would have undoubtedly been an amazing strip entitled Robbie.

http://potrzebie.blogspot.com/2010/12/here-is-robbie-scripted-by-len-brown.html

HaPpY NeW YeAr from all of us here at I.T.C.H.