Tumblr (3.0; @hoppingtoons)http://hoppingtoons.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwn4ykwAyF1qe83rwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://itsalltooabsurd.tumblr.com/post/17563543676/the-smithsonian-collection-of-newspaper-comics">itsalltooabsurd</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics</em></p> </blockquote>http://hoppingtoons.tumblr.com/post/18564353827http://hoppingtoons.tumblr.com/post/18564353827Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:45:38 -0500gasoline alleyfrank kingcomicspanelreblog<object width="400" height="400"> <param name="flashvars" value="offsite=true&lang=en-us&page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Ffantagraphics%2Fsets%2F72157629077147746%2Fshow%2F&page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Ffantagraphics%2Fsets%2F72157629077147746%2F&set_id=72157629077147746&jump_to=" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=109615" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=109615" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="offsite=true&lang=en-us&page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Ffantagraphics%2Fsets%2F72157629077147746%2Fshow%2F&page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Ffantagraphics%2Fsets%2F72157629077147746%2F&set_id=72157629077147746&jump_to=" width="400" height="400"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://fantagraphics.tumblr.com/post/18181059502/nancy-is-happy-complete-dailies-1943-1945-by">fantagraphics</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/nancyishappy"><em><strong>Nancy Is Happy: Complete Dailies 1943-1945</strong></em></a> <br/>by <a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/erniebushmiller">Ernie Bushmiller</a></p> <p>336-page black & white 8.5” x 8.5” flexibound softcover • $24.99<br/>ISBN: 978-1-60699-360-6</p> <p>Ships in: March 2012 (subject to change) — <a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/nancyishappy">Pre-Order Now</a></p> <p>A funny thing happened on the way to comic-strip immortality.</p> <p>For many years, Ernie Bushmiller’s <em>Nancy</em>, with its odd-looking, squat heroine, nearly abstract art, and often super-corny gags, was perceived as the stodgiest, squarest comic strip in the world. Popular with newspaper read- ers, true — but definitely not a strip embraced by comic-strip connoisseurs, like <em>Krazy Kat</em>, <em>Dick Tracy</em> or <em>Terry and the Pirates</em>.</p> <p>But then those connoisseurs took a closer look, and began to realize that Bushmiller’s art approached its own kind of cartoon perfection, and those corny gags often achieved a striking zen quality. In its own way, it turned out <em>Nancy</em> was in fact the most iconic comic strip of all. (<em>The American Heritage Dictionary</em> actually uses a <em>Nancy</em> strip to illustrate its entry on “comic strip.”)</p> <p>Charter members of the <em>Nancy</em> revival include Art Spiegelman, who published Mark Newgarden’s famous “Love’s Savage Fury” (featuring Nancy and Bazooka Joe) in an early issue of <em>RAW</em>; Fletcher Hanks anthologist Paul Karasik; <em>Zippy the Pinhead</em> creator Bill Griffith; underground publisher Denis Kitchen, who released several volumes of <em>Nancy</em> collections in the 1980s; <em>Understanding Comics</em>’ Scott McCloud, who created the “Five-Card Nancy” card game; Joe Brainard, who produced an entire <em>Nancy Book</em> of paintings in 2008; and Andy Warhol, who produced a painting based on Nancy.</p> <p>Beginning in the Winter of 2011, fans will be dancing with joy as Fantagraphics unveils an ongoing <em>Nancy</em> reprint project. Each volume will contain a whopping full three years of daily <em>Nancy</em> strips (a Sunday <em>Nancy</em> project looms in the future), collected in a fat, square (what else, for the “squarest” strip in the world?) package designed by Jacob (<em>Popeye</em>, <em>Beasts!</em>, <em>Willie and Joe</em>) Covey.</p> <p>This first volume will collect every daily strip from 1943 to 1945. (Fantagraphics will eventually release <em>Nancy</em>’s first five years, 1938-1942, but given the scarcity of archival material for these years we are giving ourselves some extra time to collate it all.)</p> <p>This first <em>Nancy</em> volume will feature an introduction by another stellar Bushmiller fan, Daniel Clowes (from whose collection most of the strips in this volume were scanned), a biography of the artist, and much more.</p> </blockquote>http://hoppingtoons.tumblr.com/post/18564073960http://hoppingtoons.tumblr.com/post/18564073960Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:40:20 -0500ernie bushmillercomicsvideoreblognancy<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzbxnkNous1r1d5rwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://gekiga.tumblr.com/post/18228191096/any-info-on-this">gekiga</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Any info on this?</p> </blockquote> <p>Might be the Osamu Tezuka circle (he himself on the far left?). Can anybody identify this piece?</p>http://hoppingtoons.tumblr.com/post/18563888151http://hoppingtoons.tumblr.com/post/18563888151Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:36:41 -0500mangagekigareblog<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyi31oOFwx1qa78hco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://hoppingtoons.tumblr.com/post/18563632773http://hoppingtoons.tumblr.com/post/18563632773Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:31:40 -0500Yoshihiro Tatsumimangagekigapanelreblogmusic<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhhhzt2UnE1qbf1d7o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://hotta-tomoaki.tumblr.com/post/3619757600/2010-f15">hotta-tomoaki</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>「のぞき」(2010)</p> <p>F15号(キャンバス、ペンキ、ラッカー、ペン)</p> </blockquote>http://hoppingtoons.tumblr.com/post/18563509289http://hoppingtoons.tumblr.com/post/18563509289Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:29:14 -0500without wordscomicsreblog