"GEEZ, Milton! Are women ALL you sketch?"

No, but they're my favorite subjects!!

 

 

Zazz Zu Zazz, MK

 

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ODDS AND ENDS

 

My Thanksgiving:

Chicken breast with salad, cherry sour candy and half a pecan pie. Sorry if you disapprove, mother.

Birth of a new stereotype: Now people think that Popeye socked Native Americans and turned them into CASINO CHIPS! (They were "Indian head pennies".)

Phun Phactoid: Lawanda Page, "Aunt Esther" the religious zealot in SANFORD & SON, was a fire-eating stripper in her younger days.

HONORED TEACHER

From CARTOONING THE HEAD by FIGURE by Jack Hamm. (1916-1996)

An outdated book from the days when the manuals were SUPPOSED to be superior to what the student's level was, instead of coddling it. I've always found Mr. Hamm's female abstractions to be extremely sexy, and I've found his teachings indispensable.

Published by Perigee Books and still in print. Support your local bookseller!

JIVE TURKEYS

Holiday art for SCREW, 1980s.

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I'm sick of so much being about 'race' these days. The idea that being afraid and angry is mentally healthy. The hell with "success", the hell with everyone who sees me as 'intimidating'.

EDGAR ALLAN POE, and MANY MO'

Some of the splash pages I've done for adaptations in the ongoing GRAPHIC CLASSICS anthology series. http://www.graphicclassics.com/

 

 

 

Our cartoon: BULLY BEEF (1930). A Terrytoon WWI gagfest featuring some of the happiest decapitations on film! (Click pic.)

 

Ta-Ta now, Lads and Lassies-MK

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WELCOME TO MY PAD



The yard (in the spring, anyway).

 

 

 

"And God Saw that it was Good", by Mel Kramer.



http://youtu.be/tNtkSzow0FY

Today's clip: HARP BOOGIE (1946) with Adele Girard Trio. Ms. Girard was married to jazz clarinetist Joe Marsala. The dancer: Rusha Holden!

 That'a all for today-MK

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THOUGHT

One thing that young cartoonists cannot benefit from now is the advice...the demands...of crusty old editors bawling out at you from behind their desks strewn with art, lunch remains and cigar ashes. It's all through email, on which people are pretty reticent.

"Why is everybody afraid of me? I only wanted to be friendly..."

SKETCHES

Today's 'toon: THE BANDMASTER (1930). Conductor Krazy leads his group through "Stars and Stripes Forever" and "Twelth Street Rag". Another example of Ben Harrison and Manny Gould's mastery of gags and synchronization; the Charles Mintz studio had been making sound cartoons for only about a year. Disney's films of the period are outdone in terms of speed and content.

May all your worries be little ones-MK

 

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GOOD GRIEF! MORE CD COVERS!

 

Today's cartoons are musical moments I've isolated.

 

12th STREET RAG (1933) The final sequence from STAGE KRAZY, showing Krazy at the keys playing "12th Street Rag", composed by Euday L. Bowman. This stands out because of its cutting to the beats of the music, creating a kind of montage. Clumsy in spots? Definitely. But a unique and advanced effort for 1933. Arrangement by Joe De Nat.

HOT CLARINET SEQUENCE from THE HEP CAT (1947) Benny Goodman-inspired clarinet when the cat plays Pied Piper in this clip from a Mighty Mouse cartoon. This sequence is typically cut to shorten time on TV prints. Music by Philip A. Scheib. Energetic dancing cycles by Carlo Vinci.

Semper Fidelis, MK

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