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Comic And Book Related => Blog and Site Links => Topic started by: The Australian Panther on April 20, 2021, 12:42:34 PM
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In researching the last two uploads by Lyons, I came across a few sites which some of you may be aware of, but are new to me.
First Mike Lynch Cartoons
https://mikelynchcartoons.blogspot.com/
Very eclectic and he offers lessons on cartooning.
Second Barnacle Press -Comic Supplement
https://www.barnaclepress.com/comic/
Doesn't seem to have been upgraded since September last year, but lots of articles on early comic strips.
Next
Screwball comics - the artists that made the funnies funny.
http://screwballcomics.blogspot.com/
All about strip and newspaper cartoonists. This one doesn't seem to have been updated since 2016, so if you find anything interesting, I'd save it and download it.
Last but not least
The Fabulous fifites, a blog by Ger Apeldoorn, who I'm sure some of you will be aware of.
This one is right up to date and has a current article on something I didn't know existed, Peter Scratch the Newspaper strip by Lou Fine.
Next, Fine drew two newspaper strips, 'Adam Ames', and 'Peter Scratch', about a tough private eye who lived with his mother. Fine died in 1971 and according to Will Eisner, he was one of the greatest draftsmen ever.
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/f/fine.htm
Anybody know any other source of that? Doesn't seem to have lasted very long.
But wait thats' not all folks!
We'll also throw in, free of charge, from the same site, the April 18th article on a version of E.A. Poe's 'The Gold By' by Craig Flessel which came to life in an issue of 'Boys Life'
the scouting magazine Boy's Life. [There is a] complete run that can be found online. The comic section (and many of the other illustration features) of this oversized magazine were supplied via the Johstone and Cushing agency, at least until it folded around 1962.
Looks like a currently unmined source of material for CB+.