I collect and draw stupid things and you probably want to see them too. Plus someday I hope I get money from you.
Monday, September 24, 2012
Yogi Bear
Back in the 1990's when I had free reign over the Hanna-Barbera characters (within reason) I wrote this Yogi Bear story for DC's Cartoon Network Presents
The story, drawn by Bill Alger, comes from the second issue in September 1997.
Next week: The Jetsons
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Wow! No Mistaking There Was a War On When You Read *This *Ad Copy
Reliving A 1942 Double-Feature
SECRET AGENT OF JAPAN (1942) --- Shanghai saloon owner Pres...
Number 1387: Atomic attack, 1972!
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A couple of weeks ago I showed a 1946 atomic destruction story by Joe
Simon. You can see it in *Pappy's #1382*.
Now, for today’s radioactive post:
Look...
And Toto, Too?
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Toto can go anywhere. Heck, Toto can even do a mean Dorothy impersonation!
You know what else is cool about Toto? Toto can frolic in a field of
flowers and...
Magnus Fights Again!
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Here's a neat thing that's coming our way this fall, the second trade paper
reprinting of Russ Manning's *Magnus Robot Fighter*. These 60's gems from
Gol...
So You Think You Can Dance, “Meet The Top 20”
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After auditions in five cities and a week in Vegas, *So You Think You Can
Dance *finally hits the Hollywood studio to introduce its Top 20
contestants, ...
Light a Match!
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Taking a look at *America's Best Comics* #5. I referenced before how odd it
is that Pyroman's powers don't have anything to do with fire, and it
appears th...
World's Finest # 57, March/April, 1952
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More of the same on another nicely drawn but inconsequential Win Mortimer
cover.
GCD credits Bob Kane with actually doing the Batman and Robin ...
Jack Cole's Deadly Horror
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Ever since I first discovered his work, PLASTIC MAN creator jack Cole has
been one of my all-time favorite cartoonists. When Craig Yo told me he was
doi...
Your worst nightmare
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I couldn’t resist posting this video, which several readers have sent me.
It’s an albino Burmese python, and apparently this isn’t staged. The clip
will so...
Date Ideas - Learn Karate and Fight Racism
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What's not to love about this romance comic book text featurette describing
fun and inexpensive things to do with your sweetheart? Not only age
appropria...
So, I Shouldn't Snuggle?
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Something About The Furry Costumes
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It’s unfortunate kids happen to love big furry characters but also happen
to be at the exact height where our dirty mind wonder to…While I have this
chance...
Saving You From Filth and Degradation
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You axed for 'em , you got 'em - more re-up requests fulfilled:
*Howard Finster- Night Howard Finster Got Saved*
*Modern Purveyors Of Filth And Degradation...
Woolfolk Records 1950/09
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[image: Whiz 133 Ibis first page]
After a time of selling to just Fawcett and Orbit, William Woolfolk
includes Quality again among his publishers with this...
Sticking to Music
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You know how whenever anyone brings up the topic of US sonic weapons and music torture, someone always says, “What do they do, just turn on WFMU? Hahahahaha....
Discovering The Broons
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This photo with the really lousy lighting shows part of a tabletop that was
découpaged with comic strips. We stumbled across it in a Scottish-themed
resta...
Imagine
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A few weeks backs we finished up this advocacy film with Pendrawgn
Productions. The YouTube compression is pretty harsh here, but it should
give you the gi...
Dumb Ways to Die
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This public safety TV commercial from Melbourne's Metro Trains is gruesome in the most adorable way possible. You will love it, if you haven't already seen i...
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Here's my contribution to *This Planet Is Doomed*, a collection of Sun Ra's
poetry published by Miriam Linna's Kicks Books in 2011.
*The Shadow Waltz of...
Jess Johnson’s Auto da Fé Book Available Now
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My old friend and Fantagraphics co-worker Jess Johnson has released a
compilation volume of sketchbooks and “Auto da Fé” zines chronicling the
past decade....
The Corset X-Rays of Dr Ludovic O’Followell (1908)
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X-Ray images of women wearing corsets from the second volume of the French
doctor Ludovic O’Followell’s Le Corset (1908). Although Dr O’Followell was
clear...
Video: STYX Cartoons
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Here's a short video of cartoons by STYX, a British cartoonist. These are
from the STYX BUMPER FUN BOOK. STYX was the pseudonym of Leslie Harding, a
very p...
Greatest Horror of Them All! / The Fanged Freak
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This was the very first remake / redraw I ever posted at *THOIA*, and as we
tend to do occasionally around here, we drag these old posts out from the
vault...
The Man Called Flintstone
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I was a huge fan of THE FLINTSTONES as a kid but somehow it never occurred
to my parents to take me to see this feature film version that premiered in
'6...
My Addiction to Irony by Marsh McCall
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Hello. My name is John, and I’m “addicted” to irony. No, not “addicted.” I
don’t know why I uttered the word with an air quote inflection. Yes, I do.
It’...
WARRING WITH TROLLS, part 4
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*"To live is to war with trolls." --Ibsen*
Talented illustrator Austin Briggs painted a NY Giants baseball game for
the April 22, 1950 cover of the Satur...
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*Pick A Gag, Any Gag*
Monday Cartoon Day.
I have been doing so many my own scans of Tall Tales, that I was left with
these. So if you have to see them in ...
Weebles Playground TV Spot
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Weebles Playground TV Spot To help with the A/V Geeks mission to share
these forgotten films unearthed in their archive, this film and hundreds of
others c...
See and Hear Tiffany Thayer!
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Tiffany Thayer, aka Elmer Ellsworth, founder of the Fortean Society,
publisher of Doubt, writer of memorably sleazy fiction, was in Hollywood
throughout mu...
Kabarett!
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In 1969 Searle published a book of sketches made on location in the
strip-shows and cabarets of the St Pauli district of Hamburg.
The French edition had a ...
Oslo 6
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Okay, I am done with Oslo. It’s been a week already! Next week we will
resume Siberia. Then July Diary. Then more comics. Then die. Please note:
the book M...
A Little Love for Lewis Parker
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It's really beginning to feel like summer around here. At this time of year
I always start thinking back to my childhood and how much I enjoyed summer
vaca...
Robert Minor in the New York Call
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[1] John D. Rockefeller stumps the pavement for the
New York Call, July 28, 1915.
“Honesty is a bourgeois virtue.” — Robert Minor
Robert Berkeley “F...
F This Movie! - Man of Steel
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Patrick and Mark Ahn kneel before Zod.
Download this episode here. (32.5 MB)
Email F This Movie! at fthismoviepodcast(at)gmail.com.
Subscribe to F This...
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!
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*Happy Father's Day to my Dad, Jim Owsley! I miss you very much! 8^)**Hanna-Barbera's
AUGIE DOGGIE and DOGGIE DADDY! My inking over pencil art by Mike
F...
Fred Mogubgub would like to blow your mind
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As I've noted many, many times on the Funhouse TV show, the pop culture of
the Sixties is the gift that keeps on giving and giving and giving – each
time ...
To Dad On Father's Day! (PART ONE)
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Haven't posted holiday greeting cards around here in a while, so here's a
small sampling of* Father's Day *coolness from my private collection,
dating from...
Sexploitation : Fragments d'une imagerie amoureuse
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Les affiches polonaises, les affiches italiennes, les affiches de Star Wars,
de Bad Girls, de Bornes Arcades, de Carpenter, de Get Carter, les affiches...
A comic book for the blind
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How do you translate an explicitly visual medium for people who can’t see?
You can’t just print a comic with embossed detail – the picture would
become too...
Where's the Fire Brigade?
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Wow, hey look kids! A Walt Kelly panorama with Brownies, which I like to
imagine to be in the same whirled as Peter Wheat!
From Four Color Comics #192 — Th...
TOMMYKNOCKERS BEAT CLUB – THE RIP-EDITION, VOLUME 2
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Unapproved but unforgotten corpora delicti from the catacombs
[image: Tommyknockers RIP2_frontcover_cropped]
As promised, here‘s Volume 2 of the Un-Lost Tomm...
From the Pages of Giggle Comics - 1949
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Today let’s enjoy a couple of stalwarts from the golden age of kids’
comics, *Dan Gordon* and *Ken Hultgren*. These two were oft contributors
to the pages ...
The Origins Of Rock, Paper, Scissors
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According to this 1945 party planning booklet, the game originated in
China. Called Chinese Gold, the booklet suggests playing in teams for party
fun.
Grow up as good revolutionaries
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In 1955, Argentinean-born Che Guevara met Fidel Castro and quickly joined
his efforts to oust Fulgencio Batista as leader of Cuba — a revolution in
which...
Cathy Malkasian
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Animator and Cartoonist, Cathy Malkasian was on to talk about her latest
book, Wake Up, Percy Gloom. We also discuss her animation work and other
comics pu...
YUMMY! 1990S ADVERTISING FOOD GIFS
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Don't panic! You didn't fall into a 1990s time warp on the World Wide Web!
I thought it would be fun to put together a gallery of old-timey ad GIFs
found ...
The Big Gundown
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If you enjoy authentic "Spaghetti Western" music, check out this double
disc collection titled A GUN, A COFFIN & A GUITAR at the HORSE DRAWN
ZEPPELIN blo...
I’m Not Dead
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Hey everyone, I know it’s been a long time. Sorry I haven’t gotten a chance
to post anything new for a while. I started a new job a few months back and
I’v...
Maurice Sendak at SOI
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Hot on the heels of the Harvey Kurtzman exhibit, the Society of
Illustrators has another DON'T MISS show.
LINK The Society of Illustrators
Hello Chicago, cut me a piece of CAKE!!
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I'll be at table #1 at CAKE this weekend, with new zines Forecast: Rain
(pictured) & Stun Nuts #9, plus assorted older zines, The Heavy Hand, T
shirts, or...
Rube Goldberg's Cartoon Machine Inventions of 1913
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About 10 months passed between the production of Rube Goldberg's first and
second invention cartoons, from July 17, 1912 (view that cartoon here) to ...
D+Q in Chicago Part 2: CAKE
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Let me just say how excited we are to be participating in this year's
edition of CAKE, which has become one of the more buzzed-about festivals
after only o...
Tally Ho!
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I don't know much about hunting, but I do know that there is a type of hunting dog called a pointer, which was enough to craft this gag:
Dan Piraro's finis...
paying gigs
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More like paying gigabytes — the tiff file for our dvd-cover design here
was HUGE: This is the front cover of Josh Melrod & Tara Wray’s forthcoming
film Ca...
2 Fast 2 Furious
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IT’S VEHICULAR WARFARE out there. Secret Acres is making a lightning attack
on Chicago, particularly on the Chicago Alternative (K)omics Expo – and
we’re g...
A Jazzy Cover Gallery
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Like many teenagers who were heavily into Silver Age Marvel Comics, I was
blown away by the wonderful John Romita Sr. Of course, I was first exposed
to hi...
NO APOLOGIES
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Around this time of year, CCS incoming freshman log on to the school’s
message board. They find roomates and post links to their work. They also
mentally ...
For All The World To See [Updated]
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James spent his sophomore year of high school making "The World," a $700
absurdist science fiction epic. Here it is finally.
You may go on the IMDB and gi...
--Link-- DITKOMANIA #91 Kickstarter
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Rob Imes has a Kickstarter project ending in a few days for the publication
of DITKOMANIA #91, the next issue of his on-going fanzine. If it makes its
fund...
Bijou Game Change
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For the past six years the Bijou Team and Festival Films have worked with distinguished classic film industry pros around the country in seeking a network an...
Upon A Hill
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Tonight I will be at the Irish Arts Center talking about my piece, based on
a Yeats play, that is featured in The Graphic Canon Volume 3. Here is the
piece…
Time wasters!
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*Friends with Kids (2011) – BOMB**. *Horrible “romantic comedy” about two
platonic best friends
(Adam Scott, Jennifer Westfeldt) who decide to have a baby...
Making Comics With Your Friends Debrief
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Our HUGE thanks to Pat Aulisio, Box Brown and Josh Bayer for hosting last
weekend’s two day workshop, Making Comics With Your Friends. We had a great
turno...
From 1979: I'll Bet You Can Sing This Jingle
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Today's commercials are just noise. Give me a good jingle anytime and I
will sing it; around the house, as I bathe, as I drive, and most definitely
while...
Going on Hiatus
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SHADES OF GRAY will be going on hiatus for the foreseeable future. Thanks
for everyone's support over these past few years. The site will remain up
and co...
Going on Hiatus
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HOORAY FOR WALLY WOOD will be going on hiatus for the foreseeable future.
Thanks for everyone's support over these past few years. The site will
remain u...
A Life's Dear Dreams... "Up In Smoke"
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'Tis with great sorrow that I return to the bloggnhg scene. This article,
from the local newspaper, tells the story with grea t clarity:
This dreadful nigh...
Happy Star Wars Day!
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36 years ago today many kids my age's lives changed forever when Star Wars
opened. It was delayed a day in Kansas City due to a benefit screening on
open...
"What's Up, Center of the Earth People?"
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The police inspector was yelling at Twain and Einstein again. "You two are
the worst nightclub owners in all of Soho! I'll find something to plant on
you i...
road trip
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Just a quick note to say that starting May 25th, I’ll be on the road for
few weeks. Some pals and I are driving through the south to photograph
abandoned p...
Drawn 2005-2013
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Drawn 2005-2013:
Drawn is dead. Long live Drawn. Thank you, everyone.
johnmartz:
[image: Drawn in 2005]
Drawn in 2005.
2005
Have you heard of these t...
RIPBCGF
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Totally gutted to hear about the discontinuation of Brooklyn Comics &
Graphics Festival. Best damn show. I’ve nothing particularly profound to
say about wh...
Punch Drunk Love
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Here’s a print I drew for a P.T. Anderson collection of posters from Mondo.
Thanks to Aaron Horkey and his curatorial benificence. Red Red, Royal
Blue, Ye...
ABE LINCOLN JUNIOR MY FRIEND*
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*99¢ Dreams* are here!! Sheer brilliance** from our man in Brooklyn. *
Autographed *Sheets On Sale at the *low, low, introductory price of $12.50 (Shipping
...
Jacovitti's "Pa and Ma"
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*Marriage, Jacovitti Style*
Taking my dictionary into my hands, I've made a stab at translating a
couple of later Jacovitti strips.* Pa e Ma *is a concept ...
TORONTO COMIC ARTS FESTIVAL!
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I’m hanging out in Syracuse, NY right now after an awesome few days in New
York City. I had the pleasure of visiting the MAD Magazine offices and the
First...
COWABUNGA SCHNAUZER
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*Cowabunga Schnauzer*
(Belly Wot Leaflet 2013, Special Large-ish issue)
Marc Bell
Half World Books
10.5” tall x 8” wide, 20 pages (12 in colour)
First prin...
Oom Pah Pah! Today is Tuba Day
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I've been dying to post this cover for Tuba day but missed my cue two years
in a row. No way was I going to let that happen again. You just got
to lo...
Fan Art
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The PRISON PIT Facebook page is a hotbed of awesome fan art. Here are a few
recent favorites people have posted… Amazing Cannibal Fuckface amigurumi,
croch...
T.I.P.S! 161 Brainiacs, feat. Josh Flanagan
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iFanboy’s Josh Flanagan creeps back into The Lair to tell us his tips for
home and car improvement. Alex updates us on an English couple who have
given the...
**COMMISSIONS***
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Here is the first significant commissioned drawing I've made since The
Cartoon Utopia was released
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I really like doing stuff like this, and encourage ...
Asking For Help
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My computer is having issues. Any purchase made through this site at this
time will go toward helping get a replacement. If you don't see anything
you wan...
An Unpublished 1940 Sub-Zero Cover by Jack Cole
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Here's a super-cool rare piece of previously unpublished early superhero
art by Jack Cole that provides a small revelation about his early career.
It's a...
"Stand By Me!"
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Just 'cause everybody needs to see/hear this.
Everybody needs somebody to stand by them. You won't find that somebody
with a new Pope or some invisible g...
Comic Art Con - Not Your Normal Con
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A smaller but excellent convention takes place on March 24th in Secaucus,
NJ. This con happens in the Fall and in the Spring and is strictly comic
art, n...
RL Book 2
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Dear friends,
It's been a few months since posting, or writing.
I've posted a new chapter of my book here:
http://www.tomhart.net/rosalie.html .
If yo...
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Hi gangsters!
One last post before this blog will be removed from the internets.
Hope to see you on the other side on our *fb-page* or elsewhere!
Happy n...
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