April 1st
To open April Fools’ Month, we present two pages from the 1925 collection, Cartoons from Life, in which artist Ellison Hoover uses contemporary comic strip characters to communicate editorial opinions (above), and to “improve” famous paintings (below). Comic strips involved in these parodies include: Polly and Her Pals; Bringing Up Father; Captain and the Kids [...]
Crownin’ Kings # 694
Dial B For Blog goes out (again) on a high note with a heartfelt multimedia tribute to Jack King Kirby and his ultimate legacy. http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/600/ Rip Jagger riffs on Yoe Books’ Amazing 3-D book from this past year, finally picked up over the weekend. http://ripjaggerdojo.blogspot.com/2012/05/amazing-3-d-comics.html Some rare stuff from Krazy Kat‘s George Herriman [...]
Booksteve Recommends! Titles and Stuff I Worked On in 2011 That Would Make Great Gifts!
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AT BOOKSTEVE’S LIBRARY-REPRINTED HERE BY PERMISSION OF ME In lieu of a regular job this past year, I have been keeping busy by doing work behind the scenes on various books, most of which would make wonderful holiday gifts for the discerning comics or pop culture fan! Let’s go over the list! I’ve [...]
Marchin’ Tanks # 476
You never know what you’ll find at The Internet Archive-for example, downloadable high resolution scans of every episode of Winsor McCay’s comic strip, Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend. http://www.archive.org/details/DreamOfTheRarebitFiendByWinsorMccay Here’s Spidey and Doc Ock in the Amazing Spider-Man issue from 1981′s collection of mini-comic books entitled Bubble Funnies. http://wonderfulwonderblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/bubble-funnies-amazing-spider-man.html Back to the Golden Age for an [...]
D. J. David B. Spins Comics-Tunes: Going Crazy For Krazy Kat
From Yoe Books, our gracious hosts here on I.T.C.H., comes Krazy Kat and the Art of George Herriman: A Celebration. I haven’t even seen this book yet, but I’m giving it my highest recommendation. A+++++++! You can order it from Amazon now and you’ll probably get your copy before I get mine. Well, what are [...]
Bleepin’ Bleeps # 459
Yoe Books has no less than four new titles debuting at Comic-Con this weekend! Here’s a sample story from The Carl Barks Big Book of Barney Bear starring Barney and Benny Burro. http://fourcolorshadows.blogspot.com/2011/07/barney-bear-and-benny-burro-carl-barks.html Here’s a non 3-D tale of Joe Kubert’s Tor, one of the first characters to ever appear in 3-D in comics. To [...]
Markin’ Sparx # 420
I’ve stated here before that I have never been a big Alex Nino fan but I have to admit the Groovy Agent’s Nino posts-including this one-are starting to win me over. http://diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2011/05/addicted-to-alex-nino-dream-house-by.html Future Hagar creator Dik Browne appeared for years in perennial school library favorite magazine, Boy’s Life, with a strip called the Tracy Twins, [...]
Mgfpon Lyueks # 397
One of my favorite Silver Age Marvel artists was Syd Shores who had come a long way from being a Golden Age Marvel artist-seen here in some Timely westerns. http://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2011/04/number-924-shores-of-west-syd-shores.html Here’s one that by all rights shouldn’t have been good but was-Charlton’s Kung-Fu rip-off, Yang, by writer Joe Gill and artist Warren Sattler. http://diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2011/04/boys-from-derby-night-of-wolf-by-gill.html Here’s [...]
The Semi-Authorized Krazy + Ignatz “Tiger Tea” Addendum # 28: Happy Birthday George Herriman!
Born 130 years ago on August 22, 1880, George Herriman is known today as one of the most imaginative cartoonists of the 20th century. But early in his career, The Bookman magazine published an article that quoted him arguing that cartoonists are impervious to inspiration, preferring instead to serve the "inartistic majority." Herriman’s quote contains [...]
The Semi-Authorized Krazy + Ignatz "Tiger Tea" Addendum # 27: August 21, 2025
Today’s episode: Krazy Kat – "Home, James" by George Herriman The Nashville Tennessean, August 21, 2025 The Tiger Tea series was George Herriman’s longest-running Krazy Kat saga. Over the course of a year, the residents of Coconino County wrestled with the comical repercussions of a mysterious tea with hallucinogenic powers. As far as I know, [...]
