Circus Freak! And the Winner is…
We have a winner-and a few wieners who didn’t follow directions, but what the heck, some of my best friends are hot dogs! And here are the 1938 Circus The Comic Riot mystery artists revealed… (click for a closer look Artist #1: I think everyone got Basil Wolverton right. The funny-style Disk-Eyes the Detective strip [...]
Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings Review: Viva Las Vegas!
Great reviews for Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings are starting to appear-just in time for the holidays! The one below is from The Las Vegas Weekly. How perfect is that?!? They’re Not Bad, They’re Just Drawn That Way by J. Caleb Mozzocco The thing about the most successful cartoonists and comic-book artists is that when they [...]
Limited Edition of Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings Nearly Sold Out!
Okay, I just made a tally. I’ve sold 26 of the 30 Limited Edition copies I’m selling of Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings with the hardback binding, dust jacket by Dean Yeagle, extra 16 pages of rare art and the bookplate signed/illustrated by Dean Yeagle and me. 4 more left. I will immediately make a post [...]
How to Order Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings Limited Edition-It’s EASY!
(click for a closer look) Above illustration from the book by Joe Palooka’s Ham Fisher. The Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings Limited Edition is hardcover, has an signed, illustrated bookplate by Dean Yeagle and myself, and 16 pages of extra art by these cartoonists…Wesley Morse, Milton Caniff, Joe Shuster, Bob Kane, Paul Murry, Rube Goldberg, Dan [...]
Gary Taxali Struts His Stuff!
Gary Taxali is one of my favortite artists. Gary did the portrait (below) of Rube Goldberg for the Arf Museum book and is working as I blog on portraying an unknown genius cartoonist for the next Arf book-details soon. Tonight is the opening for Gary’s first solo Canadian show at the Magic Pony gallery in [...]
Old Skool Ink Slingers Say Cheese: Pt. 9: Rube Goldberg
Whoops, I was chided in the Classic Comics Yahoo Group for having “stopped” the 1928 series of cartoonist fotos and mini-bios. I better get back on the stick. Here’s Rube Goldberg (who got the Arf Treatment in the 2nd Arf book, Arf Museum, with lots of rare and unpublished art). (click for a closer look)
My Comics: “Just Say Yoe To Drugs”.
Felix the Cat may have used a mind altering drug to market comics (see below), but i use LSD to create mine. Or memories of it anyway. I haven’t taken one of those kind of trips for decades and hypocritically encourage my kids not to do so now. But, to be honest, the experience of [...]
Good As Goldberg!
Sure, I love those great convaluted comic inventions that got Rube Goldberg his name in the dictionary. And I’m nuts about the wonderful drawings of those wacky sculptures the ink-slinger did like we feature in Arf Museum (along with Rube’s hilarious essay "My New Passion For Modern Art"). But they thing I like MOST about [...]
Sacrilege!
Bodacious Beth Davis in her column, The Library of Babble, on the Broken Frontier website recently reviewed the new Arf book. Here’s what Beth had to say… What could be more sacrilegious than a marriage of Art and Comics? Art is a vision made real by the skill of the artist and exhibited in hallowed [...]
God Bless Publishers Weekly…
…they made Arf Museum the lead off cover review for their Publishers Weekly Comics site. They had some interesting things to say so I’m reprinting their thoughts for the interst of Arf Lovers everywhere: “Having curated actual museum shows, cartoonist/designer Yoe turns to the print medium to exhibit little known cartoon art. Appropriately, the book [...]
