Old fashioned comic panel joke books are now completely a thing of the past but there was a time when they were everywhere-clean, dirty and only slightly risque. Here’s a reprint of one of the latter, a Jackson joke book from the early 1940′s whose theme is travel.

http://hairygreeneyeball2.blogspot.com/2009/10/jokes-that-were-old-when-grandpa-was.html

HP Lovecraft is strangely trendy in comics today but there was a time when a Lovecraft adaptation in comics was something new and special. Here are two Marvel adaptations from the early seventies by Roy Thomas-one with art by the still looking for a style to call his own Barry Windsor-Smith and the other a favorite of mine offering rare pencils from inker extraordinaire Tom Palmer.

http://diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2009/10/thursday-double-play-hp-lovecraft-in.html

GIANT-SIZE MARVEL revisits the unique and bizarre one-off teaming of highly stylized artist Alex Nino with cosmic consciousness guru Jim Starlin on a 1970′s issue of THE RAMPAGING HULK.

http://www.giantsizemarvel.com/2009/10/jim-starlin-and-alex-ninos-ram.html

Already a week old but I just discovered this nice analysis of the artistic stylings of the editorial cartoons of the late Jeff (SHOE) MacNelly over at ILLUSTRATION ART.

http://illustrationart.blogspot.com/2009/10/jeff-macnelly.html