I'm loving these hilarious cartoon collages by artist J.R. Williams. I first became acquainted with his artwork when he created this excellent illustration of Screaming Lord Sutch for an article I wrote in Cool and Strange Music magazine.
I've found some mighty odd cocktail ephemera in my many years of puttering around antique stores and thrift sales, but this box of 50 cocktail napkins, juxtaposing quotations from Shakespeare with mildly-risqué cartoons of dames and drunkards, really takes the martini olive. Seldom have the words of the immortal Bard been used to less salubrious effect.
I've scanned the best ones, and uploaded them to a gallery for your viewing pleasure.
Bottoms up!
[Link: HEE HEE HAW HAW HAW HAW]
The incredible Datajunkie has done it again: a virtual comic-book "spinner" rack filled with full PDF scans of 12 classic Gold Key Comics, including issues of Boris Karloff's Thriller, The Mighty Samson, Turok, Son of Stone, and my favorite, The Man From Uncle.
[Link: Gold Key Virtual Spinner Rack]
The Horrors of it All presents a "Diabolic Devil Double Header" featuring 2 satanically-themed comic-book classics by Bill Everett .
[Link: Satan Is Waitin']
[Link: The Pit of Horror!]
Flickr user, drmonkeyscan02 (what happened to drmonkeyscan01?), has uploaded an Imperial Buttload of old National Lampoon comics, including this Tiki-riffic satire of Donny and Marie Osmond's 1978 film, Goin' Coconuts.
Mike Lynch has scanned and uploaded a number of old gag books in the past few months, but the desert-island theme of this collection really caught my eye (for what I assume are obvious reasons). Most of the humor is stale, un-P.C., and dated, but I still get a kick out of the fine line work on display.
[Link: SOUTH SEA CARTOONS compiled & edited by Harold Myers]
This might be an opportune moment to invite everyone to revisit my own tribute to lame, insensitive, tropical-island humor, the April, 1935 issue of Ballyhoo Magazine.
Over at Atomic Surgery, Jack Kirby explains human (and Sub-mariner) evolution in his own inimitable way, from an issue of "The Eternals".You can viddy the entire issue at Newsarama.
Meanwhile, Golden Age Comic Book Stories presents an excellent unpublished satire of pre-Comics Code crime and horror comics:
[Link: Weird Dead Comics 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
Sadly, artist Dave Stevens passed away yesterday after a long battle with leukemia.
So long, Dave, and many thanks for introducing me to Ms. Bettie Page, via your greatest creation, The Rocketeer.
UPDATE: more eloquent, better-illustrated tributes here and here.
[Link: Batman, Master of Timing!]
