Cartoon Clichés of the South Seas
[Link: SOUTH SEA CARTOONS compiled & edited by Harold Myers]
[Link: SOUTH SEA CARTOONS compiled & edited by Harold Myers]
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Meanwhile, Golden Age Comic Book Stories presents an excellent unpublished satire of pre-Comics Code crime and horror comics: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]
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!]
I'm off to the Bay Area on bidness. While I'm gone, entertain yourselves by boldy going to Comics Oughta Be Fun, and reading this excellent post on Trek fotonovels from the '70s.
Smell you later.
[Link: Star Trek Fotonovels]
Mike Lynch posts another great find: this 1961 Volkswagen promotional brochure of cartoons featuring VW Beetles done by contemporary humorists Charles Addams, Gahan Wilson, William Steig, and my favorite, Virgil Partch (pictured above).
[Link: Compliments of Your Volkswagen Dealer Part I]
[Link: Compliments of Your Volkswagen Dealear Part II]
Many thanks to Meine Kleine Fabrik for introducing me to Marvel's most random and mysterious recurring character, Steve Gerber's "Elf With A Gun".
Sounds like the next big Hollywood high-concept action film to me: "Babe, I'm visualizing Danny DeVito or Vern Troyer."
[Link: Our Favorite Elf...With A Gun!]
My friend, The Cartoonist, has amassed quite a collection of humorous sketches over at Konstantin's London Leben 'blog. I'm not quite sure why so many people had to die to make them though.
[Link: London Sketches]
The very fine Golden Age Comic Book Stories weblog has been on a serious William Bendix weekend bender that's showcasing lots of great movie posters and magazine ads, including this loaded-with-subtext advertisement for Tootsie Rolls from Nellie Comics, starring a purse-carrying beefcake superhero named "Captain Tootsie" who takes a group of obnoxious kids to the movies so they can cheer a scene from the William Bendix film, Johnny Holiday, that proudly features a box of the turd-like, cavity-pulling candies being given to a hospitalized mother. I've never seen this film, but I'm betting that Mom dies soon after from a blocked colon.
[Link: Golden Age Comic Book Stories][via The Cartoonist]