Eye of the Goof: Comics Archives

April 29, 2008

Cartoon Clichés of the South Seas

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.

[Link: Ballyhoo Magazine -- Hula Hula Number]

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April 1, 2008

Weird Dead Comic Frenzy of the Eternals

Over at Atomic Surgery, Jack Kirby explains human (and Sub-mariner) evolution in his own inimitable way, from an issue of "The Eternals".
[Link: Jack Kirby Explains the Origin of Mankind]
[Link: The Evolution of Homo Mermanus]

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Meanwhile, Golden Age Comic Book Stories presents an excellent unpublished satire of pre-Comics Code crime and horror comics: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]

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March 11, 2008

R.I.P. Dave Stevens: July 29, 1955 - March 10, 2008

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.

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October 28, 2007

Wait For It...

[Link: Batman, Master of Timing!]

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October 20, 2007

Pass the Cordrazine

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]

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October 11, 2007

Think Small

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]

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October 2, 2007

Batman. Darling.

Kevin Church created this truly funny mash-up of screengrabs from the Adam West Batman movie and TV show, with captions from Frank Miller's Dark Knight comic books [Link]

Ganked from Rone.

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August 29, 2007

Elf With A Gun

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!]

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August 28, 2007

The Walrus Was Ralf

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]

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August 11, 2007

When Bendix Met Tootsie

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]

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