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Barney Google, the Song
I love the Barney Google Comic strip (which really needs a complete reprinting, but you can get a good taste of it by joining the yahoo group “GoogleGang” here). In its heyday in the 20’s, it was one...
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Billy DeBeck Sketches, and Barney Google
Rob Stolzer just posted 18 wonderful pages of Billy DeBeck character sketches and mentioned them on the excellent PlatinumAgeComics Yahoo group. I’m going to start pointing out some of the stuff that...
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Crumbling Paper: Record of An Early Jam Comic and Billy DeBeck’s Hints on Pen...
Kirk Taylor of the previously mentioned Taylor-Morse Collection website sent a couple of very interesting scans to share. First of all, here is an article from a 1915 issue of Cartoons Magazine, about...
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Crumbling Paper: Billy DeBeck Cartooning Tutorial #2: Cartoonists Wanted!
Here’s another great Billy DeBeck (of Barney Google fame) tutorial called “Cartoonists Wanted!” from Cartoons Magazine, courtesy of Kirk Taylor of the previously mentioned Taylor-Morse Collection...
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HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Messmer, DeBeck, Sterrett and more at the...
TODAY’S FEATURED ITEM: More amazing classic newspaper pages posted today at the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive, courtesy of their MARC DECKTER CHALLENGE… Messmer, DeBeck, Sterrett, Gross and more!...
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CRUMBLING PAPER: Barney Google by Billy DeBeck
Here’s a typically funny example I scanned of Barney Google, with header strip Parlor, Bedroom and Sink, which appears to have turned into Bunky eventually, from November 23, 1930 (the depths of the...
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HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Header Strips and More Courtesy of Hogan’s Alley : March...
TODAY’S FEATURED ITEM: Hogan’s Alley has a wonderful gallery of full-color topper strips courtesy of Bill Blackbeard as a supplement to the latest issue of their always wonderful magazine (#16)…....
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