God Rest Ye Merrie: The Letters of Walt Kelly and Young Peter Brown
Here’s a true story for the holiday season about a famous 45-year-old cartoonist and an eleven-year-old boy.
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Art as Transformation: WORDLESS!
If you’ve followed Art Spiegelman at all in the last 20 years, you’ve seen his lectures, filled with insight, wit, and lots of visuals projected onto screens. This has all been pretty swell — but predictable — stuff. But when have we ever seen Spiegelman take the stage to talk about comics with a giant movie screen and a six-piece jazz combo?
The Precisely Rendered Blam: Alley Oop in 1939
It was the Dr. Who of the 1940s, a comic strip that traveled though history with verve and panache — not to mention lots of wisecracks. Only, instead of charming, eccentrically dressed Englishmen wielding sonic screwdrivers, there was a practically naked caveman with a stone ax.
The Lost Comics of Jack Cole – Part 3 (1939-1940, Humor and Crime)
In many ways, 1939 and 1940 were pivotal years in Jack Cole’s life and work. These are the years he stretched from humorous short subjects to longer, more serious crime and superhero stories.
The Seattle Undergound Comics Scene is Alive and Oozing
Seattle has a new underground comics scene. One is tempted to say “again,” recalling the boom of the 1990s with Peter Bagge, Jim Woodring, and the like. More accurately, the scene has endured.
Figuring Out George Carlson (Part 2)
Further into the career of the great unheralded cartoonist.
Figuring Out George Carlson (Part 1)
Digging up George Carlson and his extremely busy career.
The Lost Comics of Jack Cole – Part 2 (1938)
1938 was the year that Superman appeared. It was also the year that Jack Cole became a comic book artist. Welcome to part two of my continuing survey of the lesser known (and, in some cases, virtually unknown) comics of Jack Cole. For part one of this series, see this earlier Framed! column, here. This… Read more »
The Lost Comics of Jack Cole – Part 1 (1931-1937)
A study of Cole’s lesser-known comics and cartoons sheds light on his greatest work, and reshapes our current narrow understanding of this secretive, influential 20th century pop artist.
