Nobody’s asking, but I’ll tell you anyway, where yesterday’s animated GIF came from. I made it after seeing this Popeye cartoon on MeTV’s Toon In With Me.
Category: Cartooning
I Want Candy
Mysteries Revealed and One Left Behind
Two physical book arrivals this week.
The Mysteries, by Bill Watterson and John Kascht.
https://www.amazon.com/Mysteries-Bill-Watterson/dp/1524884944/
Connecticut in the Movies: From Dream Houses to Dark Suburbia, by Illeana Douglas.
Notice: This will be my last blog post for a while. How long? Don't know yet. For now, my full attention needs to be elsewhere. Check back in a month or two. Thanks for being here to read this.
Maximum Jack and Joe
From 1967, in the final months of 12″x18″ original art, before the reduction to 10″x15″, this is one of Jack Kirby’s most impressive splash pages.
Frank Giacoia’s name had been penciled in as inker, but the assignment went to Joe.
Frank inked the Iron Man story in that issue, over Gene Colan’s pencils.
Popeye’s Fight Club
Another item from 1934. Popeye demonstrates how tough he is without, then with, his performance enhancing drug of choice.
Stripped Down
Oh, the irony of Gannett/USA Today celebrating the history of comic strips, as seen in today’s editions.
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/09/24/the-gannett-history-of-comic-strips/
It’s ironic because the occasion of their celebration is the gutting of their comics selection across all papers, paring it down to just 34 strips. Arlo & Janis is not one of them! Grrr…
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/09/24/the-gannett-34/
The Washington Post has dropped two of the strips I enjoyed following with the WP app on my Fire tablet, Snuffy Smith and The Phantom. What all of this means is, everybody who loves “the funnies” should be a paying subscriber to Go Comics and Comics Kingdom.