Buster Brown’s Mother’s Day
In honor of Mother’s Day today, we present Buster Brown Plays Another Little Innocent Trick on his Ma, by Richard Felton Outcault. This story comes from the 1903 collection, Buster Brown and His Resolutions. Click here to see the cover of that book, plus another episode of Buster Brown mischief! Click on either picture, to [...]
Sunday Best…
Hey boys & girls, if you and your parents are getting dressed up in your best clothes for Sunday morning Easter church services, following is a great idea! You know it’s a wholesome idea, because it’s not modern! It comes from a 107-year old comic book (Buster Brown and His Resolutions, by Richard Felton Outcault, [...]
This Day in Arf History: R.F. Outcault’s Birthday
On this day in 1863, the man who jump started the American newspaper comic strip was born. Richard F. Outcault’s Down in Hogan’s Alley starring the Yellow Kid debuted in May 1895. Check out a bit of this punny strip below. And don’t forget there’s a plethora of previously undpublished paintings of the Yellow Kid [...]
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 BTW, the second volume of “Arf”, “Arf Museum” proudly presents eleven unpublished paintings of the Yellow Kid by his creator R. F. [...]
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 [...]
Welcome to the Blog-osphere, David Cowles!
Every arist in the world now has a blog since David Cowles finally came on board. http://cowlesworld.blogspot. David is the amazing caricaturist that you see in Entertainment Weekly and in many other publications—including Arf! David did the much commented on caricature of Jack Kirby for the first Arf volume, Modern Arf and R. F. Outcault [...]
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 [...]
