Friday, July 11, 2008

Supermouse - First Adventure of a Funny Animal Superhero

Supermouse has his first adventure in this comic book scan from the outstanding Nedor-a-Day comics blog!

Supermouse is flying as he carries two masked crooks in this golden age funny animal comic book scan
Read the Origin of Supermouse HERE

Here are some other Supermouse adventures online. The pictures below link to Supermouse scans at the Asifa-Hollywood Animation Archive and Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blog. Take a look...they're loads of fun!

Click on the images below to jump to the comic book pages

Comic Book Cover scan - A costumed flying cartoon mouse named Supermouse flies past a cartoon character who rides on a magic flying carpet

Supermouse walks into a top-secret room with a vault door 

Supermouse swings a cutlass in this swordfight scene aboard a cartoon pirate ship

Click on the images below to jump to the comic book pages

Supermouse on rocket from Pappys

supermouse-timid-giant-cover

...and if you like Supermouse, you'll probably wanna see these pages from another funny animal hero: Super Rabbit

super rabbit flies through the air carrying a carload of crooks in masks on this cover for Animated Movie-Tunes comic book

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Funny Stuff if you're a Comic-Nerd Like Me

kyle piccolo comic shop therapist

Just to be clear: The video starts with the new trailer for The Dark Knight (which I'm diggin' a lot) but what's funny is the comedy short series called Kyle Piccolo - Comic Shop Therapist

...of course if you're NOT one of us comic book addicts who can't miss their Wednesday comics infusion, you may not agree. Anyway. Made me chuckle ^_^ More episodes at http://www.kylepiccolo.com/

Fun Shine










Monday, July 7, 2008

Funny Animal Comic Book Scans from Thad K.

In the last few months, Thad K's classic animation blog has featured a beautiful pile of funny animal comic book scans by some of the greatest cartoonists of the golden age of cartoons! Here's a quick set of links to help you find and devour them!

(Click on any of the images below to jump right over to the full-page comic scans on Thad's blog.) Fox and Crow funny animal comic scans by Jim Davis
Fox & Crow Comic Scans by Jim Davis

 

Fox and Crow comics drawn by Owen Fitzgerald headbutt
Owen Fitzgerald Fox and Crow Comics

 

Cartoon Crow knocks on the door while cartoon Fox sits at dinner table
...even MORE Fox and Crow comics

 

Woody Woodpecker comics scans by John Stanley
Woody Woodpecker by John Stanley

 

Tom and Jerry comics drawn by Harvey Eisenberg Tom the cartoon cat is startled by loud sounds
Tom and Jerry by Harvey Eisenberg

 

Tom and Jerry Dell comic book cover by cartoonist Harvey Eisenberg Jerry the cartoon mouse paints Tom the cartoon cat with a checkerboard pattern
more classic Eisenberg Tom & Jerry comics

 

cartoon chicken hen rooster by Pogo artist Walt Kelly from Dell Animal Comics
Walt Kelly Animal Comics

 

Dell Donald Duck Comics by Carl Barks
Donald Duck Comics by Carl Barks

 

Cartoon moose argues with Barney Bear in Comics by Carl Barks from Dell Our Gang
Barney Bear Our Gang Comics by Carl Barks

 

cartoon Wacky Wolf stares at himself in the mirror comic art by Bob Wickersham
Wacky Wolf by Bob Wickersham

 

Lil Bad Wolf silhouette in the moonlight by Carl Buettner
Carl Buettner’s Li’l Bad Wolf

 

and there is a whole LOT more, too --especially if you're a fan of classic animated cartoons!

If you want to browse all of the comics-related posts at once,
just click on this link>>
Funny Animal Comic Book Scans

Update #1: Screwy Squirrel Comics
screwy squirrel cartoon drawing reading a book upside don on a tree branch
by Carl Buettner, from Our Gang No. 14, 1944

Hey Thad...thanks a bunch! Great Stuff ^_^

Saturday, July 5, 2008

Comic Strip Story-Ads from The 1950's

Another fun comics and cartooning blog to check out:
Comic drawing of woman falling from a trapeze
I really dig Ger's articles on comic strip advertisements.Back in the 1950's many famous comic strip artistsworked for big advertising agencies to create ads for all kinds of products.(See Sam Spade Wildroot Hair Tonic Ads by Lou Fine).
shark-comic-ad
Click on the images to see the whole strip on Ger's blog
Hot Dogs and Cartoon Drawings of Indians in this Dik Browne Ad for Armour Star Franks
There are also some really nice articles about cartoonist Bud Blake, along with heaps of great artwork that's probably gone unseen for decades. Check out these gems:

Bud Blake Comic Strip Ad for Glass Wax

Click on the images to see the whole strip on Ger's blog

Bud-Blake-Tiger-Sunday-Comic-Strip

You'll really want to look through all the posts -- you never know what you'll find. Like this cartoon advertisement for Vaseline by Hagar's Dik Browne...

vaseline-comic-ad

I'm so glad that Ger has saved this stuff and put it all on his blog so we can all enjoy it!

UPDATE: More Eveready comic ads are posted here:
http://allthingsger.blogspot.com/2008/07/wednesday-ad-day-looking-for-david.html

UPDATE #2 Five more terrific scans of these Creig Flessel Eveready comic ads at:
http://allthingsger.blogspot.com/2008/07/batteries-that-keep-on-going.html

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Old Romance Comics Scans at "The Golden Age Romance Comics Archive"

Here's another unexpected discovery that made me squeal with delight: A nice stack of Golden Age Romance comic book scans that you can read online or download for your collection!
Lovelorn ACG  Pre-Code Romance Comic Book cover scan sgows man and woman struggling in romantic conflict
Apparently created as a project for a college humanities course, Jenny Miller's Golden Age Romance Comics Archive is...
"a resource for scholars and fans interested in golden eraromance comics, containing full scans of issues."
There are a couple short essays about the romance comics genre, but the soft and chewy insides are the 14 complete issues of old romance comics scans from publishers such as Fox, Harvey, Atlas, Michel, Charlton, Marvel, St. John and Mystery Publishing Company. Juicy Pre-Code tales of heartache and betrayal with titles like Lovelorn, All-True Romance and First Love. Even the later comics have intriguing names like Lonely Heart, and my favorite title: My Personal Problem (!)

Romance Comic Book cover scan: Lovers, Vol. 1, No. 38 - Couple embracing in the back seat of a taxicab - Drawn by Al Hartley
5 Reasons Why I'm Fascinated by Romance Comics:
    1. They're so weirdly different than any of the comics I grew up with in the 70's
    2. The unwavering commitment to totally formulaic plots
    3. The Betrayals, the Crying, the EMOTIONS and over-the-top melodrama
    4. Like crime comics, they're filled with excellent drawings of regular people in normal clothing and mid-century urban American backgrounds
    5. More flashbacks per comic than any other genre
    read and enjoy at:http://www.jennymiller.com/romancecomics/

    and if this is your first visit to CartoonSNAP, make sure you check out all of our
    Comic Book Scans

    Wednesday, July 2, 2008

    Funny Crime Comics & Lots More Fun Stuff at the Comic Book Catacombs

    Comic Book Scan - Slippery Slim the masked thief counts hims stolen money in his seedy motel room.

    I just ran across another swell comics blog called the Comic Book Catacombs. Huge variety of fun comics and pop culture miscellany. Chuck seems to dig funny animal comics, horror and crime, superhero classics of the seventies, etc. Lots of fun stuff to discover and/or remember!