I went to visit with Lynn Johnston the other day, something I hadn’t really been able to do for a long while since the ongoing pandemic. I visited her at her studio which is where the FBorFW business is conducted, but it is also where Lynn has set up her workspace. These days, she spends […]
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Dick Tracy, Donald Duck, General News, Li'l Abner, Little Orphan Annie, LOAC Essentials, Rip Kirby, Star Hawks, Terry and the Pirates, The Gumps, Uncategorized
Happy Holidays from LOAC, Dogpatch-Style!
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Dec
Dec
Ho-Ho-Ho from Us to You!
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Nov
Nov
It has become an annual October tradition in artist circles to draw a picture in pen and ink each day of the month. It is called “Inktober” and it comes with a list of prompts to help inspire the participants. This month we created a list of prompts based on the LOAC books we have […]
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Oct
Here’s a game unique to all kinds of comics!
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Sep
Sep
In the fall of 1930, George “Swan” Swanson wrote and illustrated an illuminating essay on comic exaggeration in cartoons. His pointers succinctly outline his methods and provide insight into the art of over-the-top screwball cartooning. His lessons work as well today as they did 90 years ago. Chapter 12 in LOAC’s Screwball! The Cartoonists Who […]
Screwball, Uncategorized
Screwball Sunday: A Crazy Cat in George Herriman’s 1903 Jolly Jackies Farce
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Sep
Sep
“Kitty! Kitty!” by George Herriman, September 6, 1903 Freshly hired as a staff cartoonist at the New York World, George Herriman scored an early success with his January-to-November 1903 Sunday series, Two Jolly Jackies, about the misadventures of two sailors on shore leave. “Jacky” was a popular term for a sailor, coming from “Jack Tar,” […]
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Jul
Jul
King Jake by Frederick Opper – January 5, 1908 King Jake is a comic strip about the nature of humor. Specifically how what can be a real knee-slapper to one person is infuriating to another. And we, as the reader, get to observe both the jokester and his victims entwined in a series of causes […]
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Jul
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Comic-Con 2020 maybe be canceled in the physical sense, but they have prepared an incredible line up of over 350 panels for people all over the world to stream and enjoy from their homes for free! Dean Mullaney will be representing the Library of American Comics on Saturday, July 25. Here are the details: Fantagraphics […]
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Jul
Jul
Above: The Squirrel Cage by Gene Ahern – December 13, 1936 You can’t outrace yourself but you can sure try hard. This is shown in today’s Screwball Sunday, an eructation-producing episode of The Squirrel Cage by that irrepressible devotee of ridiculous folly: Gene Ahern. Running as a topper to Ahern’s Room and Board from 1936 […]
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Jun
When Mort Walker began Beetle Bailey way back in 1950, he mostly likely never knew that it would become a world wide phenomenon seventy years later and a legacy that includes his three sons. Mort Walker passed away in 2018, but before he passed, his grandson, David, shot a documentary about the legendary cartoonist and […]