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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #17

2008-05-15T19:42:00.000-07:00

For the week of May 12-18.

Part 2 of 2, continued from last week.

Links: Henry Boltinoff

2008-05-10T12:54:00.000-07:00

I saw this post at Pappy's Golden Age and was reminded of how nice Henry Boltinoff's cartooning is. I don't have any scans of my own to show or anything, but here's a LINK ROUND UP:

Gorilla Daze: some one- and half-pagers from DC Comics
Dial B for Blog: A selection of Super-Turtles
Stripper's Guide: Woody Forest
Toonopedia: Boltinoff bio
Mania Dos Quadradinhos: Info and Woody Forest(Google Translation)
DC Indexes: Mother Lode of Boltinoff DC Filler Strips

I really like this smarmy "publicity man" from Alan Ladd #8.

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #16

2008-05-07T21:52:00.000-07:00

For the week of May 5-11

This is a two-parter, concluded next week.

X-9 by Mel Graff

2008-04-27T13:14:00.000-07:00

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I discovered today that I like the look of Mel Graff's 40's-50's cartooning, so I tracked down some strips at Heritage Auctions. I turned them into line art and put them into one page as a fun comic strip continuity project! Thrill to the adventures of Corrigan (aka X-9), Corrigan's double, Joe Otterfoot, and the handling of illegal venison. Strips are from 1944, 1949 and 1955.

Also make note of Graff's special lettering for the caption boxes--good stuff!

Graff promo art and bio at Joakim Gunnarsson's blog

Secret Agent X-9 wikipedia entry

Chinese Comics: Peng Di (aka 朋弟), A Molin 2

2008-04-24T19:12:00.000-07:00

Here's another batch of strips scanned from a book I brought back from China in 2004. This stuff is by cartoonist 朋弟 (aka Peng Di, Feng Di, Peer Di), and I'd say these examples are from the 30's/40's, but I can't say for sure. The title seems to be A Molin 2, which, according this this guy is a funny tranlation:

"I found a better dictionary and noticed that the word 阿木林 can mean someone who is easily decieved or a fool. I think that is what the name 阿摩林 should be translated as. Perhaps this is a way to say the same thing in Shanghai. From now on Ah Molin will be known as Suckah."

Maybe "A. Dupe" would be a good name.

Anyway, this is from a series of reprints published in 2003; I bought three different ones, but gave the other two to friends. This book is all four-panel strips, while the others I saw looked like longer stories. The strips from this book deal with class struggle, the male/female dynamic, and hygiene, I guess.

Title Translations:
pg 1: Eat Well
pg 2: The Suction Kiss
pg 3: Standard Table Lamp.

That's about all I can figure out. I found these on the Google-translated page here. I'll make up unfunny but jokey fake titles from here on.

Thus,

pg 11: Now He Has One Leg!

pg 19: Sharing Hooker's Bed Bugs
pg 31: Popeye Contest
pg 39: Baby Collector ???
pg 46: Fickle Lady

pg 52: Ass Licker
pg 57: Rickshaw and Severed Head

LINK ROUNDUP

Peng-Di Wikipedia entry, Google translation

Peng Di series on Amazon.cn

Translated Peng-Di Comics on wobumingbai.typepad.com:
The Real Shanghai, introductory post,
The Real Shanghai, subsequent pages
Make Your Fortune and Return Home

Ther was some controversy over characters in the seemingly pretty profitable Old Master Q series being plagiarized from Peng Di's comics (and they are obvious rip-offs). More info on this:
Old Master Q Wikipedia Entry
People.com.cn Article, Google Translation

That's it, have fun!

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #15

2008-04-22T23:17:00.000-07:00

For the week of April 21-27.

This is the best comic strip I've ever done.

Gluyaswilliams.com Update

2008-04-13T21:45:00.000-07:00

I added a batch of ten gags/illustrations done for Rand McNally to gluyaswilliams.com. These were made from scans I found on an ebay auction ages ago, I did my best to fix them up. The one I've posted here was too far gone, so I didn't post it to gw.com, but nothing is too shitty looking to put on a blog.

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #14

2008-04-12T23:19:00.000-07:00

For the week of Apr 7-13

It took me forever to get this done. I won't be drawing these guys again because it's too hard!

Also take a look at this raw scan, before I added the graytones. (very large size)

There's an RSS feed of my Flickr gallery of weekly strips here, if you are so inclined.

Title Block

2008-04-09T20:56:00.000-07:00

I have to put in some overtime at work this week (so my comic strip for this week is lagging), but a benefit, along with time-and-a-half, of course, is coming across stuff like this:

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Back in the old days big architects firms knew a good logo when they saw one. Nowadays I'm not so sure, they're a little too plain for me. This thing was handlettered by a professional! A couple more nice bits:

A graceful "of" can make even the ugliest stencilled numbers look nice.

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #13

2008-04-03T20:17:00.000-07:00

For the week of March 31 - April 6.

I was beginning to think I went overboard with the drawing on this, but it came out ok.

Penny by Haenigsen

2008-03-30T18:45:00.000-07:00

This is a collection of Penny strips by Harry Haenigsen. Haenigsen's a great stylist, his drawing's really something, in spite of all the turned-up Frankenstein noses. I've collected some jpgs of other stuff by him that I'll try to post one of these days, though I have a feeling it's not for everyone. But I think we can all appreciate the beauty of this plain-jane early 50's cover design! RIGHT?

Gluyaswilliams.com Update

2008-03-29T23:10:00.000-07:00

I added three daily strips from 1924 to gluyaswilliams.com. In an effort to get more strips up faster, I didn't go to any trouble cleaning these up, or making black-line versions. They look good either way. With luck there'll be more to come!

For more info on Gluyas Williams don't hesitate to checkout the latest issue of Comic Art Magazine, which includes a nice article by Jeet Heer and published by the estimable Buenaventura Press. This issue also features a cover by pal Tim Hensley and a additional book by other pal Ivan Brunetti. It's been on the stands for over a year, so you've probably bought one already.

Department of Markets

2008-03-28T22:25:00.000-07:00

From deep in the annals of memory.loc.gov

Little Lulu

2008-03-28T21:29:00.001-07:00

From deep in the annals of memory.loc.gov

Chinese Comics: Sanmao

2008-03-25T19:13:00.000-07:00

This will be the first of a few posts with scans of comics I got while I was in China in 2004. They're all old, as I didn't see much of anything contemporary. If I ever go back I'll try to do some legwork beforehand and find out where a comic shop is.

Anyhow, first up is Sanmao, who's a very popular chracter over there with a long running strip. Sanmao literally means "three hairs" or "three whiskers," and he's a put-upon, typically homeless urchin just trying to get by. These comics are from the late 40's during China's cultural revolution, so you see lots of political stuff going on. I'm not sure if the book I have starts with the very first strip or if it's a ways into the story, but here he's just heading to the city and seems pretty naive:

He's taken in by a kindly old fisherman, however:

After being back on his own for a few strips he's taken in by a family, until their house burns down, then he's back on the street alone again. In the book he goes through a series of these kinds of ups and downs, matching wits with other street kids, overfed fat rich people, wild animals, the thoughtless, the greedy, the mean. He dreams of a better life, but not much comes of it, even though he's a good guy.

That's it! Mostly pretty good comics, but maybe a little melodramatic or political in places. They're almost all wordless, too, for easy reading.

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #12

2008-03-25T10:41:00.000-07:00

For the week of March 24-30.

Take a look at the pencil versions of two of these panels in the previous post.

Half Way

2008-03-21T10:39:00.000-07:00

These are the pencil roughs for panels 3 and 4 of weekly strip #12, which I'll post next Wednesday, March 26.

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #11

2008-03-14T23:14:00.000-07:00

For the week of March 10-16.

I hope I can stay on schedule from now on, but it's hard to get these done now that I have a job!

Reasons

2008-03-04T15:05:00.000-08:00

Well, not much is happening for me lately--just moved into a new apartment, but I don't have enough of my stuff transported to get any comics or scanning or much of anything at all done. However, I mean to have Weekly Strip #11 for next Wednesday, March 12, and a post or two with scans of Chinese comics I brought back from my trip there in 2004; I have some neat stuff that I rediscovered during my packing. I may also get some stuff together to add to gluyaswilliams.com, but that's within the next few months, not particularly anytime soon.

Please keep reading!

Links to Me

2008-02-21T08:53:00.000-08:00

I've gotten a little bit of new traffic in the last few days from Tom Spurgeon and Newsarama's blog--I hope you guys like what I've got here. Unfortunately I don't have anything very new up and I took this week off from my comic strip because I moved. SO check out the old strips here or at my Flickr page, and bookmark, because something new will show up eventually...

Weekly Strip #10

2008-02-14T16:19:00.000-08:00

For the week of Feb 11-17

So much work for so little payoff! I might take off next week...

Weekly Strip #9

2008-02-05T10:47:00.000-08:00

For the week of Feb 4-10

My internet is back, surprisingly

More Reasons

2008-02-04T17:13:00.000-08:00

AT&T has let my DSL service get interrupted, so my week vacation from weekly comics may go into two weeks...

SUPERTRASH This Weekend

2008-01-31T14:13:00.000-08:00

This is it! The big Portland junk movie fest is on this weekend, February 1-3. I'm mentioning it because I submitted a poster for their Fantagraphics-sponsored "Re-Imagined Cult Movie Poster" art show (as seen in this post). Check out the Supertrash Myspace profile for showtimes and details. I wish I could go and see Mad Love with Peter Lorre and Colin Clive. I'll just have to invite those guys over and watch the DVD instead.

Shopping, Prints, BFFs

2008-01-30T14:12:00.000-08:00

I took a look in the Family store this past Saturday in L.A. I saw that they have a couple of the litho prints (titled Stamina) that John Hankiewicz made to commemorate our SPX '06 experience. John, Onsmith, Ivan Brunetti and I each did a little drawing and John did the prints, it came out nice!

Up above is the drawing that I contributed, scanned from my sketchbook. The four of us also made a mini-comic for the show that we were handing out free. I'm not sure where you might be able to find one of them now; I don't know if I even have one. But they were neat! Four new drawings apiece, very small size.

Anyway, the print was priced at $20 at Family. They also had more of John's prints for sale, and dozens of other things. Check it out and tell them I sent you. And then tell me that I sent you.

And don't forget to bookmark Hankiewicz's and Onsmith's blogs for a heaping helping of their naive artwork. Hankiewicz is in the new Mome #10; Onsmith is in the new Hotwire Comics #2. If you need help finding Ivan Brunetti comics, you're stupid.