The Charlie Brown School of Dance

Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 14, 2012 - Comments (4)
Category: Comics, 1960s, Dance, Parody

Educational Comics

This site features almost 100 PDFs of vintage educational comics. Endless hours of browsing hilarity.

Thanks to Tom Spurgeon at THE COMICS REPORTER.

Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 12, 2012 - Comments (6)
Category: PSA’s, Comics

Betty Boop Crossovers

Proving that crossovers between fictional universes is not a new thing.

Betty was so alluring, all the men wanted to visit her!

And even some contemporary women.

Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 09, 2012 - Comments (4)
Category: Comics, Crossovers and Mashups, Cartoons, 1930s

Gus Mager and Un-Natural History

Cartoonist Gus Mager is well-respected for his pioneering newspaper strips. But he seems to have let his fertile and fanciful brain trespass into his supposedly scientific feature for Popular Science. Some of the "facts" given in his column appear somewhat dubious, to say the least. The business about the grapefruit was all settled well before Gus was working in the 1930s.

Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 13, 2012 - Comments (5)
Category: Animals, Comics, 1930s, Natural Wonders

The Violent Noah’s Ark Boys

Allan Holtz calls himself "the stripper". (He's a comic-strip historian.) On his blog, he recently directed his readers' attention to the Noah's Ark Boys — an odd series drawn by Ben McCutcheon that briefly ran in the Chicago Sunday Tribune back in 1911.

Holtz explains that the Noah's Ark Boys strip was inspired by the Noah's Ark figurines that were (and still are) the toys of choice in many religious homes. Children were supposed to learn wholesome Biblical values by playing with these toys. But McCutcheon evidently learned a slightly darker lesson, because every week his strip concluded with the Boys on the receiving end of some kind of horrific violence: burnt, blown apart, frozen, crushed, etc. Although the Bible is pretty violent, when it comes down to it. So maybe he did get the right message.

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Posted By: Alex - Mon Sep 17, 2012 - Comments (6)
Category: Religion, Violence, Comics

Altergott Does SpongeBob

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I am taking the liberty of "reprinting" a page from the latest SpongeBob comic because it features the newest work from our resident genius artist Rick Altergott. The whole issue is hilarious, and you should grab one for yourself or any young budding WU-vie.

Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 15, 2012 - Comments (6)
Category: Television, Weird Universe, Comics, Cartoons

Smells Like Harvey Comics

Now that DreamWorks has acquired the rights to the Harvey Comics characters, surely they will zealously protect properties such as Little Dot and issue a lawsuit against such blatant ripoffs as Dot Perfume.

Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 29, 2012 - Comments (3)
Category: Lawsuits, Comics, Perfume and Other Scents

Anime Makeup

Never too early to start thinking about your Halloween look!

Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 24, 2012 - Comments (3)
Category: Cosmetics, Costumes and Masks, Comics, Asia

Jughead Licks An Old Man Wearing Ice Cream

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Forever will the image of Jughead licking icecream off the head of Pop Tate haunt your every waking moment.

But if that's not enough old-school Archie weirdness for you, please click the link and purchase the newest volume of the Archie Archives.

Posted By: Paul - Fri May 11, 2012 - Comments (2)
Category: Food, Comics, 1940s, Eating, Goofs and Screw-ups

Do You Kiss Betty and/or Veronica With That Mouth?

This is not an artifact of me fooling around with Photoshop. Nor can I imagine some Google drone did this during the newspaper-scanning process. You're welcome to look at the original here.

My guess is some bored artist or letterer in 1947 seeing what he could sneak past the editor.

Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 22, 2012 - Comments (12)
Category: Comics