Archive for July 25th, 2008

Help in a cruel and dangerous world

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Ger Apeldoorn has been writing a wonderful blog for a while now, but I only discovered it today.  What a treasure trove of vintage or obscure cartoon material !  One of Ger’s regular features are ads in comic strip format, such as these gruesome stories for Eveready batteries.

Man, those times must have been dangerous !

20 Years Of Sandman

Friday, July 25th, 2008

DC Comics celebrates 20 years of The Sandman with a rather chaotic poster featuring all the main characters from the seminal comics series, drawn by (almost) all artists who drew the stories in the first place.  Check out NY Magazine’s Vulture blog for a key to who drew who.

(Thanks, Richard - indeed, we’re getting old)

Get your cartoon on

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Get Your War On, the immensely popular satirical strips by David Rees, gets the animation treatment, thanks to and exclusively at 23/6.  Looks quite sleek.