Us aminals had a good time at SPX! Contrats to Colleen Frakes and Cat Garza for their Ignatz wins! To order copies of Funny Aminals click here.
Here’s our final cover art
Penina!
Penina’s comics for Funny Aminals, Badger Bear, made me laugh out loud! Not only did I laugh out loud but I thought about it when I was driving down the road later and laughed again. I guess you’ll just have to get your own copy of Funny Aminals to check them out! Here’s some more of her work:
And be sure to check out the newest issue of Penina’s comic, Fire Messenger. See more of her work here.
B. Stone
Sunday Funnies #4
This comic strip has been formatted to fit your screen. To read the original version click here.
B. Stone
I Wants to Join! – Sunday Funnies #3
Melinna and Harrison Cady in Venice, 1931.
In the 1930s the Cady’s toured Europe. Here’s an Exerpt from a letter Melinna Cady sent to Harrison’s mother:
“So far I like Paris as a place to live better than any other city…the shops, the museums with the great works of art…The Follies!!! and on and on. Venice is filled with charm & great beauty & romance yet back of it all I could imagine in time one might feel the past tragedy of the place. Every afternoon at 4 Harrison & I started in a gondola and just wandered in & out & around until 8 o’clock. It, no doubt, sounds utterly foolish at my age to be so enthusiastic about everything but, my dear, I am living in a state of thrills…”
Excerpt from aaa.si.edu.
Click the panel below for another great Peter Rabbit comic from the 20s.
Bonus!!!
By Jinks!!! I bet this’ll knock ‘em out!
B. Stone
Josh Rosen
We’ll be featuring Funny Aminals contributors in the next few weeks until the books release at SPX at the end of the month.
First in line is Josh Rosen! Josh is a senior at The Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont and a fine cartoonist and a swell guy! Check out his potfolio here.
And here is a panel from his submission to the Funny Aminals comic book:
Look for his work and more in Funny Aminals at SPX!
B. Stone
Rocket Racoo-ooon
Rocket Raccoon was created by Bill Mantlo and Keith Griffen and drawn by none other than Mike Mignola creator of Hellboy. Besides being a fun funny animal science fiction story it’s also a great social and religious satire. Unfortunately it’s never been collected but keep your eyes open and you might happen across the issues in a long box somewhere.
A page from the third issue.
Thanks to Ryland Ianelli who gave me the issues to scan and also shared his childhood memories of Rocket. Speaking of which I can’t help but notice a ton of similarities between RR and my favorite childhood funny animal sci-fi comic Bucky O’Hare which was drawn by Michael Golden and written by Larry Hama.
B. Stone
Pussyville has it’s “Follies”
Above is the very first Felix the Cat cartoon from 1919 called Feline Follies…but he wasn’t Felix yet, he was “Master Tom”. Don’t worry about the ending, he’s got nine lives!
Below is a Fleischer cartoon from the same year called The Tantalizing Fly featuring none other than Max Fleischer and, of course, Koko the Clown who is a rotoscopeified Dave Fleischer in a clown costume.
For great quality versions of both these cartoons pick up the first volume of Popeye cartoons on DVD which also includes a great documentary on the birth of the animation industry. I got my copy for five bucks from Amazon! You can’t beat that!
And just to give you the full 1919 theater experience ( this film started filming in 1919 and was released in 1920 ) here’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari!
B. Stone
