Zine enthusiast Gary Usher kindly took a look at Phoenix Masters Joe & Daryl Hutchinson’s Joe’s Comix: WILD KINGDOM collection at Broken Frontier, and it looks like he enjoyed it! Joe Hutchinson’s mini-comics also touch on absurdity in a humorous way, but with a horror (or disturbing) element clouding every story. This book, however, isContinue reading “Broken Frontier reviews Joe’s Comix: WILD KINGDOM”
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#NobleHeadFriday – Out of this world!
Today’s #NobleHeadFriday entry covers a couple topics, both from Edward Bolman and J.P. Noel’s Noble Head Funnies #4. The first is an excerpt that Bolman inserted from his other ongoing series, Nauga Comics. It has elements clearly drawn in the manner of Ed “Big Daddy” Roth, something I’m not sure I’ve ever seen out ofContinue reading “#NobleHeadFriday – Out of this world!”
#HumpdayHutchinsons – Tasty Pioneer!
Today’s #HumpdayHutchinsons offering takes us back…waaaaaaaay back…to the opening story of Joe’s Comix: WILD KINGDOM! (It also takes us back to the days of the dinosaurs, too.) Here’s the unedited scan of Tasty Pioneer, an 8-page minicomic that simultaneously showcases teenage Joe’s amazing detail on dinosaur art, his raucous humor and his inclination to showContinue reading “#HumpdayHutchinsons – Tasty Pioneer!”
#SundaySteveWillis – Sebastian Cabot!
On this (American) Labor Day weekend edition of #SundaySteveWillis, we’re lucky enough to have hit Cranium Frenzy #31 – The Sebastian Cabot issue! Let’s start with the obvious for anyone…younger than me, most likely! “Who’s Sebastian Cabot”? So glad you asked! Per Wikipedia: Charles Sebastian Thomas Cabot (6 July 1918 – 23 August 1977) was a BritishContinue reading “#SundaySteveWillis – Sebastian Cabot!”
#NobleHeadFriday – Spitoons, Blue Jeans & Surreality
One of the challenges in talking about Edward Bolman’s cartooning is how to best describe his particular sense of surreality. Well, maybe it’s not a challenge for those who are more well-versed in such matters…but to a layman like me, Bolman takes his storytelling to places that I honestly have a hard time describing. AndContinue reading “#NobleHeadFriday – Spitoons, Blue Jeans & Surreality”
#HumpdayHutchinsons – Looney Bird!
For this #HumpdayHutchinsons entry, we’re looking at the marquee figure for Joe’s wild cartooning: Looney Bird! Joe’s work is so diverse…yet remarkably consistent…that it was hard to pin down an iconic figure for his body of work. Yet Looney Bird, with that slightly off-center look of his, rose to the top. So here’s a taleContinue reading “#HumpdayHutchinsons – Looney Bird!”
#SundaySteveWillis – When your mailing list becomes…well…
Most of the time on these weekly looks at Phoenix Masters like Steve Willis…well, I try to find a good little snippet of a Cranium Frenzy issue and share it. Works even better when the snips are self-contained. Well, issue #30 doesn’t fit that bill. It’s one big story, and a great one filled withContinue reading “#SundaySteveWillis – When your mailing list becomes…well…”
#NobleHeadFriday – War and Fleas
I think we’ve all had enough exposure to Edward Bolman’s outstanding cartooning to fully appreciate one of my favorite recurring pieces of Noble Head Funnies: War and Fleas! Here’s the first part, appearing in Noble Head Funnies #2: I’m telling you, Tolstoy has nothing on Bolman and J.P. Noel. The product of the combined imaginationsContinue reading “#NobleHeadFriday – War and Fleas”
#HumpdayHutchinsons – It’s National Dog Day!
In today’s #HumpdayHutchinsons entry, we’re celebrating National Dog Day! Here’s one of the brothers’ “advertisements” – a how-to on how to handle those nasty little canines. Of course, it doesn’t go as intended. If it did, would it be a Hutchinson Brothers work? Daryl remastered every Joe Hutchinson story (and advertisements like this!) that weContinue reading “#HumpdayHutchinsons – It’s National Dog Day!”
#SundaySteveWillis – Meeting Notes
While I’m proud that Phoenix Productions is doing its part to preserve Steve Willis‘s amazing cartooning for the ages, it’s appropriate to note that Phoenix isn’t the only person/operation doing this. Rick Bradford, genius behind the Poopsheet Foundation, has dipped his toe into the water once or twice as well. (And he’s not the onlyContinue reading “#SundaySteveWillis – Meeting Notes”
