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…
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.
“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.
From Ads from the world, more great cartoon-style advertising, this time for Deloitte. Wonderful stuff by South-African agency King James.
Read on to see more…
Ads of the World highlights a wonderful cartoony campaign, giving some edge to something as stuffy as a classical concert hall. By Jung von Matt.
Read on for more…
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”)
This very nice piece of Sacco-like cartoon journalism by war correspondent David Axe and illustrator Matt Bors appeared in the second issue of Vice this year.
Read on for the complete comic, and also have a look at the War Is Boring comic strip series of by Axe and Bors, on Axe’s Flickr site.
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)
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.
