Archive for July, 2007
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

Golden Age Comic Book Stories presents a wonderful set of illustrations by Walter Harrison Cady. I’d never heard of him before, but his work eerily fits into some of today’s alternative cartoon styles.
I particularly like the Ivory Soap (advertisment ?) illustration above. If the post didn’t say it was about a hundred years old, I’d have started looking for the man’s website…
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Monday, July 30th, 2007

Anticipation – Warner Bros is really taking this viral movie marketing to the next level. I mean, this Batman movie will take on a “new, darker take” on the Joker ? So what ? It’s been only 20 years since The Killing Joke… And it’s only slated for release a year from now ! What are they going to do next ? Fly a plane in a building somewhere ? Oh, I guess that would be bad taste…
But then, maybe I’m just a bit pissed off because I always seem to get to know about this only afterwards.
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Sunday, July 29th, 2007

“Smoke Break” is a comic by Emily Flake about her ambiguous relationship with the Nicotine devil. It was published in the march 8, 2006 issue of the Baltimore City Paper. Even though I am not a smoker myself, I can relate to a double view on the vices in one’s life.
Read on for the complete comic, and check out the City Paper archives for Flake’s comic strip, “Lulu Eightball“. It is very good.
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Saturday, July 28th, 2007
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Friday, July 27th, 2007
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Thursday, July 26th, 2007

A great comic from a recent issue of Humo – Kamagurka and Herr Seele’s Cowboy Henk tries on Superman’s garb…
(translation : “Shit, all my clothes are in the laundry. The only thing I have left is this thing here.” “Is it a bird ?” “Is it a plane ?” “No, it’s Cowboy Henk”)
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Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
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Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

I’m normally not the type to start raving about upcoming stuff, but I truly can’t wait to see this.
(via This is Pop Culture)
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Monday, July 23rd, 2007

In mijn laatste column van deze jaargang (Stripgids, juni 2007) heb ik het over de activiteiten van Europese uitgeverijen op het internet, en hoe dat allemaal nogal tegenvalt.
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Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Nedroid recently got challenged to draw 200 Bad Comics (talk about a constraint), and he failed miserably. I mean, he did manage to come up with 200 strips, but they’re GREAT ! I laughed so hard my colleagues started to worry. Check them out.
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