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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

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Sam Henderson: SAM HENDERSON has been doing comics, illustration and writing popular among people aware of their existence since 1991. In addition to his own book, The Magic Whistle, clients have included Nickelodeon, New York Press, DC Comics, Heavy Metal,and ...um... Screw. He was a storyboard director for SpongeBob Squarepants in 2001.

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Superboy #162 - *Superboy #162* (On Sale: November 20, 1969) has a cover by *Curt Swan *and *Murphy Anderson*. The feature-length *Superboy* tale, * "The Super-Phantom of ...
4 days ago
Big 10-Inch Record

I Love Melvin - Two of the young stars of Singin' in the Rain got their own movie after the success of the earlier film, and while it was not the hit that Singin' was, it...
4 days ago
McBeardo's Midnight Movies

Linksploitation: November 20, 2009 - The McBeardo Express has been running over some rough personal and professional terrain of late, but it keeps on chugging. Keep on checking in. Please. YOU...
4 days ago
Sparkplug Comic Books

Tomorrow at Comic Relief in Berkeley! - Rina Ayuyang (author of Sparkplug and Tugboat's new book Whirlwind Wonderland) and Lark Pien (author of Long Tail Kitty) at Comic Relief in Berkeley, CA. ...
4 days ago
Fuck You, Penguin

Don't even think about trying to sneak by me - I've tried to get around to as many species as possible on this blog, but it's really hard to keep up with all the smart-ass explorers that go into places ...
4 days ago
Hollywood Dreamland

Shadow of the Thin Man (1941) - 1941 brings the fourth film in the Thin Man movie series, Shadow of the Thin Man. This one has the occasional attack of the cutes, but Nick and Nora Charles ...
4 days ago
¡Historietas Perversas!

La Ley Del Revolver, No. 503 -
4 days ago
THE PLIGHT OF THE CARTOON UTOPIAN

solitary journey - four -
4 days ago
Animation Backgrounds

Peter Moehrle Blogs!!! - Artist Peter Moehrle has started his own blog: happybrush.blogspot.com His wonderful animation B/G art is just one small part of this gentleman's talent. C...
4 days ago
Ryan's Neat Stuff Blog

Vintage Los Angeles - Los Angeles in the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
4 days ago
Media Funhouse

What is America to Me? (One of my all-time favorite clips) - Every year around this time I start thinking about one clip that I caught by chance back in 1986 because I am an avid fan of star-filled pointlessness, lik...
4 days ago
Inkstuds

Funding Drive 09 Week 1 - This weeks show is a little different. I played music by different cartoonists. It’s a pretty interesting and varied list. This week was the more poppy wee...
5 days ago
Incoherent Thought

Some Old Roughs for Marketing. - Sorry for the lack of Posts. The little Sponge has kept me very busy, and I spent a week in Korea with the crew at Rough Draft Korea. I ...
5 days ago
Popcorn and Sticky Floors

MGM -
5 days ago
Funny Videos on Funny or Die. Watch funny videos featuring celebrities, comedians and you.

DANCE! - [image: DANCE!] DANCE! 1:38 dance,dance,dance,dance,dance,dance,dance,dance,dance,dance,dance,dance,dance,dance,dance,dance, Submitted by: *cf77)* Kinda Cu...
5 days ago
LPCover Lover

Didn’t I blow your mind this time? - “Blow Man Blow” Jesse Powell Jubilee Records Calvin Boze does a great R&B version of this song. Blow Man Blow
5 days ago
ALTERNATIVE COMIX

Tarzan , Lord of The Jungle 1976 - Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle is an animated series created by the Filmation studio for CBS. There are a total of 36 episodes produced over the first four se...
5 days ago
Evan Dorkin

SLG Recession Sale and SLG Radio Rant News - Hey, folks. In a nutshell, SLG Publishing is having an across-the-line, no coupon necessary, 40% off everything sale for the next week or so. A tough econo...
6 days ago
Here Lies RICHARD SALA

The Daily Cross Hatch writes about CBB - - The Daily Cross Hatch » Cat Burglar Black by Richard Sala * *
6 days ago
A Basement of Curiosities

Former Fetus - A Rock Opera - Former Fetus - A Rock Opera CD released in 1997 recorded on January 5, 1997 band members (no mention of which instruments are played by which individual):...
6 days ago
Comicrazys

Remote Control Jimmy: Spümco COMIC BOOK 1996 > Mike Fontanelli & John K. -
6 days ago
The Fart Party

hiatus - I’m going away for awhile. If you’re new to this site, go to What is FP? To purchase books and comics, go here.
6 days ago
Cinema Bizarro

The Making of The Beast Must Die - *I wrote this quasi-review of The Beast Must Die for Screem magazine several years ago. It was rejected. Typically, whenever something of mine is rejecte...
6 days ago
Give It a Spin

A Little Light Music - To gently get back into the swing of things, I offer you a little light classical music. Put some headphones on, close your eyes and let D'Artega and His ...
6 days ago
Darwination Scans

Wrestling World, July 1954 / Prince Maivia - Ok, a quick post of another 50s wrestling mag today before moving on to other topics. *Scrollable Image* Get the scan *here*. From 1954, here's the four...
1 week ago
STWALLSKULL

Rogues’ Gallery #9: “COLD BILL” PATTERSON - It was ridiculous how long he had been in the otherwise-empty waiting room. His tooth hurt like hell. Nothing to read but an old Cosmo and an issue of High...
1 week ago
Stephen Kroninger at Drawger.com

DARGER/Parsons - The Illustration program, Parsons the New School for Design presents… Filming Henry Darger: A special presentation by Mark Stokes, director of a new feat...
1 week ago
The House of Cobwebs

Wood-and-String Music Men, Adam Faith, an Empty Record Sleeve and the Extended Holly Hiccup - Hey, what's cookin', you hep cats? These wood and string music men live on the desk here amidst the detritus in the House of Cobwebs. Generally, however, a...
1 week ago
Matinee At The Bijou

Captain Video in the Movies - Long before Star Trek skyrocketed from a hit television series to the big screen, another pioneer sci-fi series had successfully navigated the transition. ...
1 week ago
The Ullage Group

Children’s Card Games (79) - And we close our overview of “Snap” decks with a 1954 edition by Parker Brothers. And quite stylish, too, in my opinion. Snap! (Posted by Doug Skinner)
1 week ago
Golden Gems

Walt Disney's Peter Pan - Illustrated by John Hench and Al Dempster Copyright 1952
1 week ago
Balthazar in Recordville

HAWAII TATTOO - *WAIKIKI'S* *LP Pye Golden Guinea GGL-0198 (1962)*
1 week ago
Saturday Morning Blog

Kongo Roo (1946) -
1 week ago
A/V Geeks

The Demented Mind of a Child - [ November 22, 2009; 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] The A/V Geeks present an evening of school films that feature the demented imaginations of children. Films incl...
1 week ago
The Greatest Ape

"Swamp Spirit" by Dick Briefer - Swamp monsters have been very popular in comic books since the first decade of the Golden Age. In 1940, Theodore Sturgeon's short story "It!" was publi...
1 week ago
Vintage Girlie Mags

Duke Vol. 1, No. 9 (Aug 1968) -
1 week ago
Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center

Kirby Kinetics - Twilight of the King? - Whenever the art of Jack Kirby is discussed, someone will inevitably mention that sometime during the mid to late seventies, his artistic abilities went ...
1 week ago
How To Say Everything

Barney Banks Page 19! - New Barney Banks page here!
1 week ago
KILLER COVERS

Under the Covers with Charlie Chan -
1 week ago
Sweater Thieves

Venus in Furs in Supertrash in Pittsburg - I saw this posted on Fantagraphics' blog yesterday, and pal Tom Neely also mentioned it today. A picture of mine is in the Supertrash show at the Andy War...
1 week ago
The Bronze Age Of Blogs

Hanging On The Telephone - I know exactly how Ray Palmer feels right now. Regular BOABers may've noticed the lack of posts lately. This is because I've spent the last week or so try...
1 week ago
Pogo In Pandemonia

Creator of Pogo - I've pre-ordered this book from Amazon. I hope you all will want to also.
1 week ago
Pat Moriarity 'n' Stuff

Review: Mugs by Pat Moriarity - Brought to you by the POOPSHEET FOUNDATION. Each copy is signed and numbered by the artist. Each page features a full page cartoon illustration of a fasci...
1 week ago
The Marx Brothers

Pondering Perelman - Given that this blog is entitled "The Marx Brothers," it behooves the author to mention one or more of the aforesaid siblings in every post. Thus it was w...
2 weeks ago
thingpart!

Hiatus - [image: thingpart hiatus]
2 weeks ago
Jason Little

Jason Little Interview at KittySneezes.com - The Reverend Syung Myung Me conducted an email interview with yours truly. It is heavily laden with links to all manner of visual and musical enrichments. ...
2 weeks ago
Reprint This!

Reprint This! Update on Showcase Presents - By now, I think everybody knows about DC's line of big, black-and-white reprints, *Showcase Presents*. By taking a warts-and-all approach to archiving the ...
2 weeks ago
I-Am-Bored.com Latest Links

Breaking News - House Passes Healthcare Bill (News and Politics) - Let the debate ensue. [Bumped up because there are some good comments for and against. Interesting reading.]
2 weeks ago
Doot Doot Garden Blog

november rain - Sorry about the blog neglect. November rain is falling; and I’m still working on rewrites. Embarrassed that I have nothing new to show. Here’s the desktop...
2 weeks ago
R O C K E T S H I P

Paul Hornschemeier and Jay Ryan, November 15th, 7 pm - [image: Photobucket] Sunday, November 15th, 7 pm Paul Hornschemeier and Jay Ryan signing and book release event!
2 weeks ago
David Goldin

In Search of Clarence - Part 2 - On a crisp early November morning my pal Mike and I set of in search of Clarence. I'd spent years learning bits of information about Clarence Schmidt and ...
2 weeks ago
Comics in my Pants

Hiatus Report - I mentioned that CIMP would be gone for a month or two, and here it's gone almost two months exactly... Just wanted to report in and let you all know that ...
2 weeks ago
Shane Glines' Cartoon Retro

Signed Books in the Cartoon Retro Etsy Store - Signed/ inscribed books now available in the Cartoon Retro Etsy store, including The Daily Spiral, Cartoon Retro Vol. 1, and the new Lily & Flinch Sketchbo...
2 weeks ago
Fanboy Fables

Uncanny X-Men #192 - I don't remember what the first comic book I read was. My older brothers had some, which I would once in a great while be allowed to hold in my grubby lit...
2 weeks ago
Satisfactory Comics

Incredible remark from 10/30/09 R. Crumb interview - In a brief interview with the San Francisco Chronicle last Friday, Robert Crumb had this to say about the process of creating his new rendering of the book...
3 weeks ago
Secret Identity

Joe Shuster’s Secret Identity Come to Life!!! - My book Secret Identity The Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-Creator Joe Shuster comes to life this Saturday at the famed Dr. Sketchy’s Live Drawing event in NY...
3 weeks ago
SECRET FUN BLOG

BRUSH YOUR TEETH...ROUND AND ROUND! - Since the dawn of Youtube I've waited for this clip to surface! Some awesome individual has finally uploaded a clip of The Toothbrush Family (1974) as or...
3 weeks ago
Way Out Junk

A Child's Introduction to Disco - The Kid Stuff Repertory Company - I wanted to put something scary here on the blog for Halloween, so I looked in the records I haven't put on here yet, and this is probably the scariest th...
3 weeks ago
Mr. Mike's Museum of Pop Culture Wonders

Happy Halloween - ** *Things that go bump in the night... * Flesh-eating zombies, blood-sucking vampires, chainsaw-wielding cannibals and psycho killers. These are the stuf...
3 weeks ago
Nedor-A-Day

Captain Future: The Spider-Men - From Startling Comics #35 artist unknown Click for larger image
3 weeks ago
Funky Junk Trunk

Mad Monster Party -
3 weeks ago
Comic Books Are Interesting Except When They Are Not Interesting

You gotta love killer teddy bears...and Tom Sutton - Because everything he drew was just dead on. I never read a Tom Sutton story where I wasn't really drawn to the art and storytelling. Sutton approached eve...
3 weeks ago
VINEYWORLD!

Finally the dust has settled! - And now I have me a little baby! Her name is Ramona Salley Hodler. I have so much to share about the whole pregnancy motherhood experience. But for now h...
3 weeks ago
The Pain -- When Will It End?

"Burj Dubai" 28 October 2009 -
3 weeks ago
Nerd Armada

Japan Super Wonder Get : 100% Orange - I came across a comic book called "Sunao Sunao" by an artist called 100% Orange. Printed in black and white and crude in execution, I thought it was a rep...
4 weeks ago
I'm Learning To Share!

A World Without Lou Jacobi?!? (1913 - 2009) - Another obit. Actor Lou Jacobi has left this world, at age 95. That's a good long run. - Follow link to his obituary from The New York Times. Five decade...
4 weeks ago
Here Comes Madness

Twain and Einstein in Ding Dong Dane - “Great news, pal! I just sold another cartoon idea to the Banana Splits!” said Mark Twain, waving a check in Albert Einstein’s face. “Let’s go celebrate!” ...
4 weeks ago
Cartoonz for U.

Benny - Here is a slide show I made with Windows Movie Maker of a character I created named Benny the squirrel. I figured I should at least post some art of my own...
4 weeks ago
ThadBlog

Pervis Returns! - Ever since my online video accounts were completely purged, the Dick Huemer/Art Davis/Sid Marcus masterpiece Halloween has been deprived from the world. Bu...
4 weeks ago
Red Panda Comics

Poopsheet on Emberley Galaxy - Ed Howard reviews Emberley Galaxy at the Poopsheet Foundation site: "These artists take a number of different approaches to giving Emberley a nod, and the ...
4 weeks ago
Michael Rex

Number nine...number nine...number nine... - Hooray! "The Runaway Mummy" hits #9 on The New York Times Bestseller List on 10/25. Thanks to everyone who has made this happen!---Mike
5 weeks ago
The Ernie Kovacs Blog

"Festival Of Magic" Hosted By Ernie Kovacs - Good evening Kovacsians. I have something for you that I know you'll enjoy. Kovacs fans know that outside of the "Best Of Collection" and the ten films he ...
5 weeks ago
The Poster Pit

AATANK -
5 weeks ago
Danny Hellman Illustration Blog

Illustrations for The Onion AV Club's new book INVENTORY - In early Summer of 2008, I got an email from Keith Phipps, (editor at The Onion's AV Club) describing a book project they had in the works. It would be a b...
5 weeks ago
Wayno: Cartoons/Fine Art/Illustrations/Words

Ralph on the Loose! - Everyone should buy the new CD by Ralph Carney's Serious Jass Project. Ralph is a fantastic musician, and an all-around great guy who's been mentioned here...
1 month ago
The BooBerry Alarmclock

Muffin's In Danger!! -
1 month ago
Scopitones.com

Guy Marchand "Rumba" (Scopitone) - via www.youtube.com
1 month ago
I Love Comix

Star Wars Newspaper Comics - >*What is SMUGMUG?*
1 month ago
What's New at the Internet Archive

Guest Blogger: Barbara Janis of the Presidio Trust - The Presidio Trust is a unique organization. It is a federal agency guiding the transformation of a former military post into a self-sufficient national pa...
1 month ago
Murder Can Be Fun Library

DAMN VIGILANTES - *Serial Vigilantes of Paperback Fiction *by Bradley Mengel (McFarland, 2009) Ever since reading the cover blurb of *The Destroyer #23: Child's Play*("Who w...
1 month ago
Blog

Lil’ Mort Release and Signing! - Check out Munky King! Coop’s LONG awaited Lil’ Mort figure is finally delivered and ready to go home with you! Be one of the lucky few to get yer grubby mi...
2 months ago
Scott Saavedra's Comic Book Heaven

Brand-Man: The Untold Story! - This link is making the rounds today, but in case you missed it: A fellow by the name of Tom McAlister was looking for a job and came up with a cute gimm...
2 months ago
Dr. Forrest's Cheeze Factory

Needz Cheeze, Pleeze! - Great Void visitors simply must have these! Won't you please help? (They've promised to stop talkin' smack about you!) Alan Seidler - Duke of Ook<--New...
2 months ago
SCREW Magazine Cover Art

Cover Art for SCREW #1024, featuring cover artist Robert Crumb - What can I say about Robert Crumb? He invented underground comix, and after forty years, he remains the towering figure in that scene. His is a household n...
3 months ago
XethComix Blog and Links

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3 months ago
Classic Cartoons

Half-Pint Pygmy (1948) - Now here's a truly weird cartoon even by Tex Avery's standards. *"Half-Pint Pygmy"* (release date: 8/17/1948) is one of Avery's less known and rarely seen...
4 months ago
Cartoons Make Me Happy

Yogi Bear in "Pie Pirates" makes me extremely happy -
4 months ago
Drew Friedman at Drawger.com

Will Ferrell Commencement Speech - For the cover story of the NY Observer about NYC high school graduations, and the celebrities parents and administrators are jockying to acquire to deliv...
5 months ago
Ye Gods! He Collects Dick Tracy!

The Undertaker... - Chet oversees the villians he's had to send to the Big House in the sky.
5 months ago
Naked Rabbit

Art is Beautiful - Let us pity the oaf who does not experience the sublime when he stands before the work of Masters. He may be witty otherwise, but a lack of appreciation fo...
6 months ago
The Art of Russell Patterson

Pictorial Review 1949 - Cover to the Pictorial Review July 3, 1949.
7 months ago
Slinkylicious

Oz - Here's a psychedelic feast-for-the-eyes in the form of underground press magazine Oz. Oz was possibly most famous for the prosecution of its editors in 19...
7 months ago
chunks

Bowery Flowers - Happy New President, Drawgers! To celebrate this historic week I am presenting my history of the Bowery on the NY Times on-line. Back in the early eigh...
10 months ago

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