Happy St. Patrick’s day! Let’s be contrary and start the day with a black and white Charlton Steve Ditko story published in the 1975 Charlton Bullseye fanzine/magazine. If you like this, there’s plenty like it in Craig’s Art of Ditko book available for order elsewhere on this page!

http://diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2010/03/black-and-white-wednesday-moonshift-by.html

Here’s a nice biographical piece (with sample work) on cartoonist Milt Gross, a seminal figure in the history of 20th century humor. It’s a nice intro but if you already laugh like crazy at Gross, then you need Craig’s spanking new, well-reviewed volume, The Complete Milt Gross Comic Books and Life Story! Oddly enough, it’s also available elsewhere on this page.

http://www.bpib.com/gross.htm

Here’s a long run of Gus Arriola’s quite literally beautiful, Mexican themed (and thus now deemed politically incorrect) newspaper strip, Gordo, from the 1940′s and ’50′s. As far as I know, Craig isn’t working on a book about Gordo but it may just be he hasn’t gotten around to mentioning it yet!

http://allthingsger.blogspot.com/2010/03/knot-its-not-tuesday-comic-strip-day.html

Okay, okay….finally today, a brief nod in the direction of conformity with a delightfully cartoony ACG story of a sad leprechaun as drawn by the great and oh-so-obviously-Irish Kurt Schaffenberger. Watch for Craig’s book on leprechauns in comics!

http://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2010/03/number-702-happy-st.html