I wish I could go to this today :

Mother Goose Melodies

Silly Symphony Cartoons (Walt Disney) 1931.

More Crumb art & comix

Including a complete New Yorker strip produced with Aline (I wonder how many of those strips Robert 'n' Aline have done by this point?).
























































































































































All these images from www.galeriemartel.com.

Thanks to Valérie Vivancos for the link.

"Whoops, I'm a Cowboy!"

Starring Wiffle Piffle (1937, Fleisher Bros. Studios).

The Weekly Somersault

More strips at the Somersault archive.

1950s Commercials

Pepsodent Toothpaste (you'll wonder where the yellow went, when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent!).



Jell-O Instant Pudding (Creamy, Nourishing, so Delicious!).



Kool Aid (you know it's pure and good : it has the Parents Magazine Seal!).

Some Robert Crumb Sketchbook Pages

Noah Van Sciver...

Interviews and Reviews :

-Tag interview

-Broken Pencil review of Chapbook

-Review of Twiztid that Noah illustrated

(Links from noahvansciver.com)

The Interview

From Mark Newgarden's facebook page.

The Weekly Somersault

More strips at the Somersault archive (and more eavesdropper strips here and here).

Cartoonist Profiles and Interviews on NYC Graphic

Click photos for links.
















Kim Deitch

















Will Eisner






















Jules Feiffer















Bob Fingerman

















Al Jaffee






















Jack Kirby






















Peter Kuper



















Harvey Pekar






















Jerry Robinson






















Dash Shaw






















Joe Simon






















Gahan Wilson

Photos by Seth Kushner

Sketchy Bunnies

These are F*cked Up.... but I haven't laughed so much in ages.
They're all from Sketchy Bunnies.

World Comics India

From The Comics Bureau :

Head over to the World Com­ics India site to look at some superb Wall­poster Com­ics — inform­a­tional com­ics cre­ated by com­munit­ies that deal with local issues, includ­ing cor­poral pun­ish­ment in schools.






















Well worth check­ing out is their Com­ics Manual, that runs through the entire Wall­pa­per Com­ics pro­duc­tion pro­cess, from con­cep­tion to deploy­ment. Not just a com­ics manual, this is a primer for social act­iv­ism and social engage­ment. Drop everything imme­di­ately and devour the entire site right now.

Once you have fin­ished read­ing the site, head over to Zee­news to read a fas­cin­at­ing inter­view with World Com­ics founder, Sharad Sharma;

"It is simple, easy, non-threatening and can con­vey a power­ful mes­sage. But it is not just World Com­ics India, which is using comics/ car­toons to deliver social mes­sages, but across the world sev­eral organ­isa­tion are doing the same. The dif­fer­ence is they have done the same job by hir­ing artists, and we have done it by teach­ing com­mon people. Since the com­mon people are the ones who pro­duce them, so the 100% own­er­ship of the con­tent is theirs. They know the artists liv­ing next door. It is not for mass dis­tri­bu­tion, but for local use – so they pro­duce say 20 copies."

Art Spiegelman's cover to Short Order Comix issue 1, 1973.

"Fatty" part 3.

More strips at the Somersault archive.

Das Blaue Wunder, Fischerkoesen (1935)

Forget about the elections for a while, and watch this lovely piece of animation :



An advertisement by animator Hans Fischerkoesen.

Steve Bell's Election

Some new videos showing caricaturist Steve Bell at work (there are some annoying adverts, but they don't last long).

The Blow Job

Another one from Manhunt #1, this time by Shelby Sampson.

Calamity Jane Gets Her Man

By Sharon Kahn Rudahl. From Manhunt #1, 1973.

"Fatty" part 2.

More strips at the Somersault archive.

More Prints from the Julie Doucet exhibition...

... at Castor + Pollux, Brighton, from 23 April.




















"The Divorce"





















"Dragon"

More here.

Free Comic Book Day

Oh, man! Just look at these beauties! I wish we had Free Comic Book Day in the UK! Or maybe we do!! Damn, I shoulda checked!!!

S.Clay Wilson Art

Just some Wilson art found on my travels around the web (I don't remember where any of these came from).