Jazzy Jerry Beck says Arf Museum is “cleverly compiled”.The awesome animation blog, Cartoon Brew just ran a review of the new Arf book by co-brewmaster Jerry Beck. You can’t read it below…

” Last year I raved about Craig Yoe’s Modern Arf, but I just got a copy of Yoe’s follow up, Arf Museum, and it’s even better. Is it a book? Is it a perodical? Whatever it is, it’s a series of publications (from Fantagraphics) that seem at first glance like a surreal stream of consciousness direct from Yoe’s brain - but upon closer inspection, it’s clear this is cleverly compiled and meticulously researched, with rare art from the masters of the form; a highly entertaining volume you’ll peruse over and over again. Any book that can artistically connect Picasso, Cliff Sterrett, Rube Goldberg, Chester Gould and Curt Swan has got my vote. In this volume, Yoe presents examples of cartoonists and their relation to 20th Century modern art. He also examines the girly gag cartoons of Reamer Keller, cartoonists and tattoos, comic strip giant apes, Charles Bennett’s evolutionary cartoons of the 1800s, unpublished paintings of The Yellow Kid by Outcault, and much much more.

“If you know who Keller, Bennett and Outcault are you need to get this book now. If you don’t know who they are - you really need to order this book immediately. Buy it here.”

Jerry’s own animated cartoon, Hornswiggle, has just been completed. He has fascinting behind the scenes details on its creation on a special blog you can read by clicking the image above.I WILL get to a review of the MoCCA show and goodies I got there plus photos, etc. It’s just that we’re krazed here at YOE! Studio with more work than we’ve ever had and preparing for the Licensing Show which we’ll have a booth (#1549) at next week. Stop by and say “Yo!” if you’re there. I can bring a Arf Museum for you if you’d like.

— C. Yoe (in the funny papers)