Here's a panel-by-panel look at a 1907 Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend strip by the one and only Winsor McCay. A major innovator in the the early days of animation, this nightmarish comic reads like a storyboard from a horror movie. John Canemaker, who wrote Winsor McCay: His Life and Art, calls this one of his most disturbing Dreams strips.
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Via The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum:
Register now for the March 30th virtual symposium Global Comics and the Rise of Modern Manga! Link here.
Where
does manga come from? What role did U.S. comics play in shaping modern
manga? How did manga become a dominant force in global comics in recent
decades?
Join The Institute for Japanese Studies, University
Libraries Area Studies and the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library &
Museum on Zoom as we explore these questions and more. The discussions
will be moderated by Dr. Jared Gardner, Professor of English and
Director of the Humanities Collaboratory at The Ohio State University
and Dr. Kinko Ito, Professor of Sociology at University of Arkansas
Little Rock. Exploring the development of manga in the twentieth
century, three international experts in popular culture and comics
studies (Ron Stewart, Eike Exner, and Shige “CJ” Suzuki) will contest
current narratives that treat manga as exotic or disconnected from its
American and European counterparts.
Cartoonist Chris Schweizer writes:
"Tuesday at 9pm eastern/8 central/7 mtn/6 pacific, I'll be joining Cara McGee (Over the Garden Wall, Black Canary) and David Petersen (Mouse Guard) for a free online panel about how we table at conventions: how we determine which shows to do, how much to take and how to display it, how to price what we're selling/doing, how we present ourselves, how we manage our sales, and more.
"If you are new to tabling at
conventions (or are thinking about it), or if you're an old pro who's
keen to hear how your peers approach something we all do, I hope you'll
join us. We'll be taking questions throughout."
EDIT: The recording can be found here.
Related:
Art by Charles Geer: THAT SUMMER WITH LEXY!
- This has been an edited version of an original March 18, 2015 blog entry. I'm hoping to drive up (in the rain) to Geer's old stomping grounds of Rockland, ME tomorrow and see if the Farnsworth Art Museum has any of his originals.
Cartoonist Clyde Lamb (1913 - 1966) was a very successful gag and comic strip cartoonist. To say he lived life to the fullest is an understatement. Dick Buchanan will tell you Clyde's story and show you some of his Boys' Life "Millicent" single panel cartoons. Thanks, and take it away, Dick!
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CLYDE LAMB’S MILLICENT
(1950 - 1961)
Clyde Lamb was a gag cartoonist with a story that attracted the nation’s attention when it was learned that he made $4,000 in a single year while serving two consecutive 25-year sentences in the Indiana State Penitentiary. At that time, the median income of the average family was $3,100. The publicity Lamb’s story aroused led to his parole in 1947. He returned to his home in Montana and eventually settled in Van Nuys, California. For the next two decades he was a successful gag cartoonist whose work appeared in most of the major nation’s major magazines.
Lamb was a regular contributor to Boys’ Life in the late 1940’s when he created Millicent, an affable elephant who was at home in Africa, India, in a circus or in a zoo. Thanks to miracle of cartoonery, Millicent was found in different places all over the world. Was she an Indian elephant or an African elephant? No one can say for sure, but we do know she was an elephant with long eyelashes. She was a mother and she could read. She was even an expert witness in a trial. All this depicted with Lamb’s usual quirky wit.
Millicent appeared each month on the “Think & Grin” page of Boys' Life, a page filled with jokes submitted by readers. Millicent appeared in the bottom right corner of the page. After Lamb’s death in 1966 this “spot of honor” was filled for a while by John Gallagher’s Cartoon Bug before Orlando Busino’s Gus began its long run.
Here is a collection of Clyde Lamb’s Millicent, Queen of cartoon elephants, clipped from the pages of Boy’s Life with our trusty pocket knife . . .
1. CLYDE LAMB. MILLICENT Boys’ Life February, 1950.
2. CLYDE LAMB. MILLICENT Boys’ Life April, 1950.
3. CLYDE LAMB. MILLICENT Boys’ Life May, 1950.
4. CLYDE LAMB. MILLICENT Boys’ Life July, 1950.
5. CLYDE LAMB. MILLICENT Boys’ Life September, 1950.
6. CLYDE LAMB. MILLICENT Boys’ Life October, 1950.
7. CLYDE LAMB. MILLICENT Boys’ Life November, 1950.
8. CLYDE LAMB. MILLICENT Boys’ Life December, 1950.
9. CLYDE LAMB. MILLICENT Boys’ Life March, 1951.
10. CLYDE LAMB. MILLICENT Boys’ Life April, 1951.
11. CLYDE LAMB. MILLICENT Boys’ Life June, 1951.
12. CLYDE LAMB. MILLICENT Boys’ Life July, 1951.
13. CLYDE LAMB. MILLICENT Boys’ Life September, 1951.
15. CLYDE LAMB. MILLICENT Boys’ Life October, 1951.
16. CLYDE LAMB. MILLICENT Boys’ Life December, 1951.
16. CLYDE LAMB. MILLICENT Boys’ Life January, 1961.
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