Prince Valiant still exists? Yes indeed, and every week Tom Yeates creates some of the finest comic book art seen today, in or out of a comic book.
Category: Cartooning
Hanging in Plain Sight
Thanks to DVD, I’m seeing something I never noticed as a kid, all those times watching The Adventures of Superman. Clark Kent’s office had the exact same Currier & Ives framed print of harness racing that my parents had.
I assume that, like the TV series, it was from the early 50’s. I took a last look at the lithograph while preparing for the estate sale after my father’s passing, and stupidly decided against keeping it.
Peanuts Originalist
A Charlie Brown Christmas was originally sponsored by Coca-Cola. The opening sequence has been chopped off for decades to hide the Coke promotion. This was how it looked when first aired in 1965.
Masque of the Bread Death
A ghost story about a London family dying from a leak in their home’s gas light fixtures? No, it’s from the British humor magazine Punch in 1860, illustrating the horror of that new baking innovation, aerated bread.
Crumb’s Better Half
The death of Christine (Perfect) McVie will get plenty of attention elsewhere. This is a place where you will read that Robert Crumb’s wife Aline has passed away.
As cartoonists, Robert and Aline were as close as it got to a “John and Yoko marriage.”
Aline’s passing comes not long after the death of Bill Griffith’s wife Diane Noomin. Friends with Aline, Diane was also an underground cartoonist.
Sparky at 100
There are plenty of online notices right now about Charles M. Schulz, who was born 100 years ago today. Terry Gross interviewed Schulz in 1990. Good Ol’ Monte gets a nod, as does cartoonist Jimmy Johnson’s then-wife Rheta, who wrote Good Grief!: The Story of Charles M. Schulz.
