Climbing down the rabbit hole so you don't have to
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Frank N. Stein
Probably every Frankenstein parody used this pun. I always thought Bill Everett was one of the most underrated comics artists before he became an alcoholic and stopped caring. Here's a piece showing what I mean that was originally in CRAZY #1 in 1953 but I got it from AARGH! #2 from 1975. Marvel/Atlas/Timely seemed to reprint stuff to keep their copyright, but as far as I know it's probably expired.
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Much of the material here is at least a generation old and therefore sometimes has racist and sexist standards we wouldn't conform to today. I try, but can't always do a line-item veto. Remember, if something has stereotypes it's posted in spite of them and not because of them. You're not wrong to be offended, think of it like a friend you like hanging out with 95% of the time but once in a while they embarrass you. My own attitude is to move forward.
Many of the images I posted between 2011-2013 were disappeared by the image bank I was using then but I still have most of the scans and am bringing them back slowly. Be patient.
Not Bert and Harry
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Want to sell beer? In the 1950s and early 1960s, the combination that
seemed to work was cartoons and comedy.
Hamm’s featured an animated bear in its TV a...
Pepperoni Pie
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This is the weekly communiqué from Bizarro Studios North, where I have been
writing and drawing the Monday through Saturday Bizarro comics since 2018.
My p...
Herriman Saturday: April 9 1910
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April 9 1910 -- Justice Ling of California has become the go-to guy
regarding the freshness of chicken eggs. A short while before this cartoon
ran the...
Christofascist
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Christian religious extremist. Often a person who believes in forcing a
right-wing Christian agenda on the rest of the world. Also known as a
'fundamentali...
FLAWRENCE OF ARABIA
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*LAWRENCE OF ARABIA* (1962)
dir: David Lean
*FLAWRENCE OF ARABIA*
MAD #86, April 1964
w: Larry Siegel
a: Mort Drucker
Movie begins at funeral of T. E. Lawre...
X-terminators #1 - Al Williamson art + 1st issue
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X-terminators #1X-terminators v1 #1, 1988 - Branching out from the X-Factor
series, several character begin in a separate adventure, confronting demons
tha...
Zero Hour!
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Peggy King: Zero Hour
The Thundermen: Odyssey
The Citations: Slippin' And Slidin'
Helena Ferguson: My Terms
Helena Ferguson: Where Is The Party
Michael Les...
Roller Coaster Of Emotions
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“My girlfriend, my son, and our friends went on a roller coaster together.
Emotions were mixed.” (submitted by David)
The post Roller Coaster Of Emotion...
The Virgin Mary Reclaims Her Birth Story
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These are the generations of Jesus Christ. My grandmother begat my mother,
my mother begat me, and I begat Jesus, but Jesus didn’t beget crap-all, so
I h...
Illuminate the Main Streets – This Week’s Links
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Save us, news! Throw your light down the halls of ignorance! If I am not
linked I have only these walls! Ah! News!
The post Illuminate the Main Streets –...
OFFICE LAFFS Edited by Charles Preston
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Above: The OFFICE LAFFS cover. The woman is saying, "Thanks for the raise,
honey!" The gag line, which was at the bottom of the cover, got
accidentally...
Mr B. A. Tweten Sings
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*Mr. Bat Sings* is one of those odd albums that regularly features on those
‘worst album art’ lists but – I would assume – few people have actually
liste...
SPRING AHEAD, Soho
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Forgotten New York -
I had a rare foray on the #6 line running south on Lafayette Street
recently and got out at Spring Street to see how one of my favo...
Back at the Chicken Shack Playlist #150
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*WFDU.fm HD2*
*150th show**6/22/22*
*Annual All-Covers Show!*
*John Zorn - James Bond theme*
*the Shadows - There Stands the Glass*
*Roy Gaines - Chicken ...
Crowdfundr for Fieldmouse Press
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As you may know, one of my many hats is being a member of Fieldmouse Press,
the publishing concern that puts out SOLRAD.co and just published its first
b...
The Death Squad (1974)
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Minor telefilm *The Death Squad* shouldn’t merit any
attention—the story is so compressed that it feels as if pieces are
missing, and the basic...
Carousel
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I'm always looking for interesting ways to display my mannequins, as well
as the handful of counter top and wig heads I also have. I see these neat
pink,...
FTM 635: THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT
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Patrick and Heather Wixson know that life is pain.
Download this episode here. (32 MB)
Listen to F This Movie! on Spotify and on Apple Podcasts.
Also...
Murdered by a Ghost!
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Time once again to scream out for an assist with some spooky supernatural
shenanigans, and who better to aim that call at than the ever dynamic, *Dr.
Dre...
Theory: Robert Hughes’ "The Mona Lisa Curse"
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Time magazine art critic, Robert Hughes is one of my heroes. His landmark
TV series, “Shock of the New” blew my mind when I was in college, and his
docum...
Danny Aiello Encore
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GGACP commemorates the birthday of late, great character actor Danny Aiello
(June 20th) with this encore presentation of a wildly entertaining
interview fr...
Matt Kuhns, RIP
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Yesterday, my friend Matt took his own life. He told me himself, having had
composed an email he had set to automatically send after he stopped
manually p...
Film Noir #9
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Noir: *The Big Clock *and *The Big Knife*
THE BIG CLOCK (1948) --- Some stories merit telling twice, *Nightmare Alley*
as recent evidence. So too was...
Fire and Ice
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Sunday Al Williamson Day.
Here's a good one, I think. It almost seems as if it was especially written
for Williamson, who drew the best lizards and drag...
Bad Kingdom (1972)
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In 1972, the government drew up plans to construct a deportation facility
off the coast of Ireland that could house as many as 70 million people -
the en...
ONE LOVELY DRAWING, part 67
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Milton Glaser had guts. Here is his unconventional drawing of Count Basie.
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On this blog we've seen many imaginative pictures of a pianist sitting at a...
Jack’s Sporting and Literary Society –
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THE NIGHT THEY BUMPED OFF HERMAN ROSENTHAL.by John Adcock❦Boardman
Robinson, New York Tribune, July 20, 1912 “We take him to a dago joint down
on the east...
Behind the Panels: Maggie Edkins Willis
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What initially drew you to comics? I didn’t read a lot of comic books as a
kid, but I loved the daily comic strips in the paper. I was also a huge fan
of...
The Fawcett Movie Adaptation Writers
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Otto Binder wrote three of Fawcett's 35 movie comics issues; the series
started off written by Joe Millard and then became Leo Dorfman's most
notable assi...
New Ditko - TALES OF THE MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER #36
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Now available from the usual sources is TALES OF THE MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER
#36, the latest in the revolving anthology series by SD Publishing and
their Fam...
Dojo Classics - The Unauthorized Tarzan!
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Over the course of the last year or so Edgar Rice Burrough's greatest
creation, Tarzan of the Apes has been getting bountiful attention, and lots
of wond...
NEW BOOK!! 👉 TOM THE DANCING BUG: EAT THE POOR!
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Volume 5 of The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug is here, and is now available.
It's... TOM THE DANCING BUG: EAT THE POOR Full ordering info below. TOM THE
DAN...
Recent finds
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*Ronald Searle* *Slightly Foxed But Still Desirable: the wicked world of
book collecting* *"Full sheep of indeterminate age"*
'In the gardens of the...
Black Scat Review 25
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The 25th issue of Black Scat Review is now out and ready for you to read!
This one is subtitled “Lewd, Nude, and Rude,” and contains three of my
contributi...
NEW COMMISSION!
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*Hanna-Barbera's BLUE FALCON and DYNOMUTT. An 11x14 commission based on HB
promotional art. Thanks, Chris! To get on my commission list, email me at
pows...
Dan Gordon's SuperKatt!
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Good afternoon, Kids! So nice to visit with you all again!
*Dan Gordon* remains a favorite cartoonist of mine, so it’s always a good
day when I can share ...
The truth about Markovia
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I guess this message is well past it’s sell-by date, but just to make a
point, I’d like to present to you : Markovia has been doing all right, even
without...
In Stores Now: The Con Artists by Luke Healy ‘14
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The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) alum Lukey Healy ‘14, released his
third graphic novel, THE CON ARTISTS, on June 7 with Drawn and Quarterly.
A note...
The Bolles sightings continue!
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Round two of recent Bolles sightings. This one during a recent visit to
Providence, Rhode Island. While there I perused the aisles of a terrific
local...
Shannon Stirnweis, Part 4: Paperback Cover Art
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*My conversation with Shannon Stirnweis continues...* ~ *Leif Peng*
*Leif Peng:* I'm guessing around this time in the mid-1960s you started to
do paperback...
Lulu Book Three
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The third and final (for now) volume of Drawn + Quarterly's full-color
hardcover *Little Lulu* books has been out for a bit. I'm sad that the
series has ...
Whatever Happened to Adam?
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Dear Ones,
I'm sorry for the abrupt conclusion to this blog. 10 years of blogging is
a long time, and I thought I could keep it going after the hiatus,...
The Big Issue (uk)
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A complete redesigned @bigissueuk done by ace @mrwilley , editor
paulmcnamee and @mrmneil . photo Paul Logan (vendor of The Big Issue at
Liverpool St, Lo...
You Know Me, Al: filling in the gaps
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We’re giving the You Know Me, Al archive a refresh! We’ve filled the gaps
in the beginning of the run: the first seven weeks of the strip are now
complete ...
New York Comic Con?!
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Next weekend, Angela Fanche and I will be at New York Comic Con with our
own booth in the Artist’s Alley. I’ll have all my books and Angela has a
fantastic...
Purple Mayonnaisery
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I am excited to have this display of my work included in Paul Nudd's
Purple Mayonnaisery group show at Western Exhibitions in Chicago. It
features sele...
Zinda Blake, Mermaid Blackhawk
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Kevin Ahearn shared this with me and now I'm sharing it with you. It's a
continuation of his wildly entertaining interpretation of the Lady
Blackhawk s...
What a ride... the end of Cinema Sewer
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So here I am at the end of a significant era of my life. Basically the
entirety of my adult life, to this point. When Cinema Sewer started, it was
24 years...
Still Truckin'/Sad Sack in "The Grudge"
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Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Ol' Groove is just checking in to reassure
everyone that he (and DotGK) are alive and well--just buuuuuussssaaayy!
Writing/le...
Journey Into Mystery #4
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*Halloween Post-A-Day 2020, Day 31*
*Journey Into Mystery #4*
* A brief trio of tales kicked off by an HPL story*
*Editor – Roy Thomas*
*June...
HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2020
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Hopefully, this Halloween video will bring some joyful nostalgia. Putting
this together was very therapeutic for me, so for anyone who might be
struggli...
An Interview with Jack Blanchard - Part Four
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*Jack Blanchard: We worked with a lot of comedians over the years. I have
always been a comedy fan. When I had my group the Dawn Breakers we worked a
lot...
New Portraits of Underground Cartoonist Icons
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"Underground cartoonists are all a bunch of
baptist ministers in Popeye suits"
-Charles Bukowski
I'm working on a series of illustrations that will event...
It is only a matter of time
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On September 12th of 2011, the *New York Times* published an article by Dr.
Abigail Zuger in which she criticised certain supposedly unrealistic
aspects ...
The End 2010-2020
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Ten years and 3100 posts later, we're done. And on a Friday the 13th, yet.
I know I said that once before and I was only gone a few months but this
time, I...
So Long, Farewell
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WE SHOOK off the childhood trauma of gym class and ventured early in the
morning to Comic Arts Brooklyn, held at Pratt’s ARC, meaning Athletic and
Recreati...
Cartoon Logic Podcast
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And yet another distraction from this brick and mortar blog… I’ve entered
the world of podcasting with renowned animation director and historian Bob
Jaques...
The Good Works of God and Mankind
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I sometimes like to imagine God filling in the colorless canvas of a new
Earth with the products of His imagination. It must have been a labor of
Love. Act...
The ABCs of Dating
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*Sponsored by Orbit #TimeToShine*
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*Orbit makes dating as easy as learning your ...
Summer Reading Stack July 20 2019
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As usual, I am behind on posting about some of the books I have been
reading. While the podcasts are not running very frequently, I am still
reading and re...
New Titles in the Shop!
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Hi! Fresh of the heels of the MoCCA Fest, Paper Rocket Minicomics has some
new titles for you! Carlito by Carlo Quispe! Things Go Wrong #2 by
Jason Bra...
That's all, folks!
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My posts have gotten thinner over the years. I'm aware of that. I've been
hopeful for a long time, that I can remain active with blogging and sharing
furth...
Addams Family Holiday: Redux
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In addition to being a bon vivant, ladykiller, and sports car enthusiast,
cartoonist Charles Addams was also a thief. He stole from himself.
This cart...
Cratedigger’s Lung - catch it
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Don’t miss the debut of “The Cratedigger’s Lung Adventue Hour,” tomorrow,
Nov. 30 at 7pm, EST.
*A one-hour exploration of excavations from the farthest re...
CSotD Part MMMXC -- A New Beginning
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Adjust your bookmark, because the blog is moving in order to become a
feature on The Daily Cartoonist, a site newly re-energized with the
addition of DD De...
New Books and Comics: May 18, 2018
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Comics highlights this week: Barrier #3 — the stellar new series by Brian
K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin (don’t forget pick up issue one and two before
they ...
Adventures in Drawing! Class in Gainesville
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ADVENTURES IN DRAWING Learn to draw from life and the imagination
through fun, creative projects and regular sketching practice. We’ll
explore a variety ...
Kudos MoonPie
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Had to come back from the dead to share this hysterical twitter thread with
you. It's between the maker of MoonPies and a woman who doesn't like them.
inflight
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BIG HALF-PRICE CHRISTMAS DEAL! i recently unearthed this piece, perfect for
that special someone who just seems to have everything! inflight, 2017
graphite...
Adventuring Pups (1948)
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Three beagle pups run away from their farm home and get lost in woods. They
experience several adventures in the forest before finding their way home
again...
How To Replace a Riding Mower Battery
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Riding mower batteries ought to be maintained when fully charged and
replaced when dead and you need all the right materials when you are about
to replac...
TOONSEUM FUNDRAISER
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Rick Meyerowitz hand-signed original "The Mona Gorilla" Poster A donation
of $200 gets you this rare 1971 poster of The National Lampoon’s most
famous...
Get Thee to the Library
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I’m thinking of getting a driver’s license. That’s not to say I’ve never
driven a car, but only a few times in questionable circumstances under the
intense...
Hang Loose
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Poster for the short film Hang Loose, directed by Sammy Harkham & Patrick
Brice, and Starring Kyle Field of Little Wings. 4 color silkscreen print on
110lb...
As We Head into 2017 - An End-of-Year Update
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2016... oh what a crazy year you've been. While it will no doubt go down as
a year full of tragedy and turmoil in the world, on a personal level, 2016
has...
And So the Year Finally Comes to an End
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After nearly 6 years of celebrating my favorite year, it's time--now 50
years on-- to leave it in the past...at least for now. Check BOOKSTEVE'S
LIBRARY ...
old time religion A Postcard Home from Bible Camp
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Apparently, the old time religion Covenant Point Bible Camp has been in
business for 90 years. I am hoping they will add this to the celebration!
Covena...
In the shop....
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These are all just sitting in the shop. Waiting for you.
*Awake and Dreaming* by Harve and Margot Zemach (1970).
*Brian Wildsmith's ABC* (1962).
*Cindy's S...
Thank you for a Decade of Cute!
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Dearest Cute Overload Peeps, It’s hard to believe that Cute Overload has
chronicled and celebrated over ten years of the most anerable,
prosh, sweetest ani...
442.
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*“I’ll rip those bastards a new one, and then I’ll rip a new one in that,
and then I’ll rip a new one in that, ad infinitum.”*
(From the first page of ...
Vintage Teen Dance Party & Disco
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Vintage photos of 1950's and 1960's teen-age dance parties and college-age
night clubs complete with discotheques and go-go girls dancing inside of
cages a...
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SAM HENDERSON has been doing comics, illustration and writing popular among people aware of their existence since his birth, though he wasn't paid for it until 1991. In addition to his own series,The Magic Whistle, clients have included Nickelodeon, New York Press, DC Comics, Heavy Metal, New York Observer,and ...um... Screw. He was a storyboard director for SpongeBob Squarepants in 2001.
See what books are currently available, links to my own work and other web presences, or contact me by writing magicwhistle.henderson@gmail.com. Currently at work on graphic memoir titled Hail Seizure.
Portrait by Jess Rullifson.
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