Labor Day in America and the world economy.
Category: Cartooning
This is no cartoon! This is a… PANIC!
From French Belgium (the Walloon side) is the surreal and hilarious stop-motion feature, A Town Called Panic. My sister Marianne recommended it to me, and now I’m recommending it.
(The title of this post is a reference that only old comic book fans will get.)
Did he say he’s from Ass Guard?
I wish I’d been born and raised in my ancestral land of England, so I could speak like this…
DrawRat
SamJay mentioned that he liked the cartoons of mine that I’d posted in the past. So here’s another one I did, from a failed comic strip submission.
This particular strip I remember being one of many exercises in teaching myself how to draw everyday objects, like the chair and lamp. It would take 1-2 hours to draw something like this in pencil, then ink it. Getting ideas was much tougher than drawing, which gets easier the more you do it. In terms of drawing ability I really admire the work of Chuck Ayers.
A Kick of Ditko
Robin Snyder’s Kickstarter project, reprinting the Ditko Public Service Package #2, is out and it’s here. Besides myself, financial contributors to the project include Mark Evanier, Neil Gaiman, and Jonathan Ross, whose name comes after Dennis F. Rogers.
This is my first Kickstarter project, and I’m looking forward to seeing how the other two I’ve joined come out.
Truth, Justice, and the Humanist Way
On my Kindle Keyboard I’m in the middle of reading Larry Tye’s excellent book about the ultimate illegal alien, Superman: The High-Flying History of America’s Most Enduring Hero. The Boston Globe has a piece by Tye about Superman’s moral compass. The article is at this link, and it requires a login. If you have trouble logging on, click here.
The Superman radio show of the 1940’s with Bud Collyer led to the Superman movie serials with Kirk Alyn, which in turn led to the 1950’s TV series with George Reeves. On occasion the radio series took Superman back to his original comic book roots as a social crusader, and in Tye’s op-ed he points out a 16-part 1946 story called Clan of the Fiery Cross. It can be heard at this page on Archive dot org.