MUSIC TO READ THE COMIC SECTION BY

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"Laffin' at the Funnies" (1932) Ruby Newman and His Carlton Hotel Orchestra.

Posted by princecastle.

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"Sittin' Around on Sunday" (1935) Bill Staffon and His Orchestra".

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"I Love to Read the Funnies" (1945) Allen Nurse and His Orchestra.

Posted by phonomono78s.

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"Sunday Funnies" (Contemporary) Chad Cooke Band.

Posted by Chad Cooke Band.

ABSTRACT VIOLENCE

Battle between Bimbo and two bears. Freeze frames from I'D CLIMB THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN (1931), a Fleischer Screen Song.

The cartoon.

 

JOSEPHINE BAKER IN CARTOONS

Like Bettie Page, Baker provided an excellent artist's motif. From European magazines of the 1920s-1930s.

 From flickr.com

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 From collectingvinylrecords.blogspot.com

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From mudwerks.tumblr.com

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From myswingarchives.blogspot.com

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RAGTIME SUNDAY

I resolve to have more Luckey Roberts in my life.


"Pork and Beans"

"Shy and Sly" (Click on image to hear.)

THE LOVABLE SANKICHI THE MONKEY

Here's another 30s Japanese cartoon that puts combat on the same level as video games, supposedly to prepare children to live with a world war. Good transformations and explosions. The use of sound is imaginative; occasionally more live action than cartoon. And it's the only foreign cartoon I've seen with an "American-style" cartoon opening title! By Mitsuyo Seo.

(Click image to watch. Thanks to MAXIMUM GAME PLUS for posting.)

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Again I'll post DUCK BRIGADE, also by Mitsuyo Seo from 1940. Anti-war ending in this cartoon in the American style. A year later, forget it. Soon, Mitsuyo Seo would be directing his infamous Momotaro propaganda features.

(Click image to watch. Thanks to VULTURE GRAFFIX for posting.)

NEW DISCOVERY, OLD ANIMATION

THRIFT AND SAVING OF TASUKE SHIOBARA (1925) by Hakusan Timura.  Soundtrack added for 1941 release. In a rough, very personalized comic strip style owing nothing to "normal" techniques. The hero wears a mild smile throughout, but his emotions are remarkably expressed in his gestures. He endures considerable, completely gagless torment, and is ready to throw himself off a bridge before the resolution. The burning town sequence is like nothing I've seen before, period.
A belief held by movie makers then was that audiences would relate to and be heartened by seeing characters suffering similar hardships. Not now.

Press still for link.  Thanks to MAXIMUM GAME PLUS for posting this.

 

WARREN KREMER'S EARLY TEENS

Published by Ace Comics in the mid-to-late 1940s, Warren Kremer's HAP HAZARD comics (issues 15-24) were some of the most attractively drawn, tastefully colored comics on earth.


The style had touches of George McManus and Chic Young. Graceful figures, (mostly) good layouts, fine expressions, great action, attractive women, festivity. Life itself.

(Images from 1947-48.)

  
Scans of the complete series can be found at THE DIGITAL COMICS MUSEUM!

THE HANDSOMEST MEN IN OLD CARTOONS

Bluto in SHAVING MUGGS...acknowledging that this clean shaven Bluto was Brom Bones from Disney's LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW (1949). SHAVING MUGGS was released in 1953.

The Conductor in A CAR-TUNE PORTRAIT.

Mutt in DOG GONE.

Oil Can Harry in A SWISS MISS.

A close runner-up was Horace Horsecollar.

NEVER BET THE DEVIL

Some art from my newly colored Poe adaptation for an upcoming GRAPHIC CLASSICS.

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