This Day In Arf History: The Yellow Kid Goes Yellow
On this day in 1896, The Yellow Kid first appears in his signature yellow nightshirt. Previously, his shirt was pale blue or just plain white. Here is the illustration from January 5, 1896. BTW, the second volume of “Arf”, “Arf Museum” proudly presents eleven unpublished paintings of the Yellow Kid by his creator R. F. [...]
Arf Lovers High Fives Tom Heintjes of Hogan’s Alley!
Tom Heintjes is the editor of the absolutely wonderful comics magazine, Hogan’s Alley. HA covers both old skool and contemporary cartooning and always does so with an terrific entertaining and lively flair. Both the writing and design in Hogan’s is top notch. I always wanted to find out a little more about the talent behind [...]
It’s Cartoonists Day!
(click for a closer look) Today is Cartoonists’ Day and Dirk Deppy over at Journalista has a great take on it: “Today is also Go Down On A Cartoonist Day. If you know a cartoonist, are the gender that the cartoonist in question prefers and said cartoonist finds you attractive, then on this day you’re [...]
Eddie Campbell: Artist FOR ARF’S SAKE
Being a long-time and huge fan of the comics by Eddie Campbell I’m happy to see that we might both be a members of "The Mutual Admiration Society". On Campbell’s most excellent blog The Fate of The Artist he talks kindly about Arf: "I just noticed Craig Yoe plugging (Jan 30) his recent Arf Museum [...]
Scraggly Scroggy
Proving that David Scroggy of Dark Horse Comics has a history of hanging around unsavory types I’ve unearthed this photo from my 1969 High School yearbook. David is the third male in the back from the left. I’m the second from the right in the back row of the Art Club. But forget me and [...]
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 [...]
David Cowles-Master Caricaturist
David Cowles. David Cowles is a brilliant contemporary caricaturist and I’m thrilled that he has contributed his brilliance to Modern Arf with his portrait of Jack Kirby and Arf Museum with his wonderful caricture of R. F. Outcault. I was also thrilled to hear he just self published a must have book of his work [...]
Arf Reviews: Cartoon Brew
Jazzy Jerry Beck says Arf Museum is “cleverly compiled”.The awesome animation blog, Cartoon Brew just ran a review of the new Arf book by co-brewmaster Jerry Beck. You can’t read it below… ” Last year I raved about Craig Yoe’s Modern Arf, but I just got a copy of Yoe’s follow up, Arf Museum, and [...]
Mandate the Magician
I always dig it when political cartoonists use a reference to comic strips characters in their cartoons. That’s been going on since the days of the Yellow Kid. There’s a particularly great one featuring the Yellow Kid as William Randolph Hearst in Arf Museum printed from the original art. Just ran across this one by [...]
