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 [...]
COMIC BOOK COMPULSIVE — Boots and her Buddies #3
Boots and Her Buddies by Abe Martin is yet another incredibly long-lived comic strip, but this one I knew existed because I had proof. Back in the 00′s when I was working at Dark Star Books in Yellow Springs, Ohio I don’t believe a week went by when I didn’t see this book. It was kept [...]
Changing Society: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, February 1912, Part 8
Today’s extracts from the February 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, focus on some of the changes in society circa 1912. Of course, nearly all these changes are from foreign sources (London, Munich, Paris, Berlin)! Curse those dirty Europeans, for taking Parlor Hour away from us! Click on the above & below pictures, to view them [...]
Mfdhwen Lhbufks # 389
Been meaning to link to this for ages-here we have all seven issues of Stig’s Inferno, the wacky and hilarious Vortex series that put Ty Templeton on the map back during the eighties comics boom. http://www.templetons.com/ty/stig/ Speaking of the eighties boom, here we see a cover gallery of what was easily the best horror comic [...]
This Day in Arf History: Polly and her Pals Debuts
Created by Cliff Sterrett, Polly was a unique creation. She was one of the first comic-strip heroines and served as a model for later characters. To be sure, Polly served more as a straight-character foil for the comedic adventures of her family: the bumbling Paw, the ever-vindictive Maw, her brother, and their cat. Sterrett’s uniquely [...]
SILENCE IS GOLDEN
Bill Blackbeard, editor of the Krazy Kat reprints, kindly sent me this new sensational French book pictured below ’cause he knows I love the Polly and Her Pals comic strip and the period this book draws from. And those masterpieces haven’t been reprinted in the U.S.. I wanted to share these with you, Arf Lover, [...]
