Comics and Fun at super*Market Animator Show

Had a great time this weekend at the super*Market comic book show! Got to see a lot of friends and meet a lot of cool people!


Ted Seko and Javier Hernandez had piles of their work for sale.


My table was right next to awesome painter, cartoonist and storyboard artist Pete Von Sholly. During the slow parts I got the chance to chat with him and look at his eye-poppingly beautiful paintings!


I'm glad I got to see Louie Del Carmen...I haven't seen him since he went over to Dreamworks.


---and Dan Goodsell's table was right across from me! He's the co-author of one of my favorite books: "Krazy Kids' Food," the curator of The Imaginary World's Ray Patin Exhibit and the creator of Mr. Toast. And a really nice guy!


That's me muggin' for the camera. Thanks to Jessica Gao for taking this photo and for putting on a really fun show!

Also (not pictured)... had a chance to catch up with Erik Wiese and Jessica Chaffin from The Mighty B, Stuart Ng, Sean Kreiner, and Anson Jew. I got to meet Jerry Beck and Scott Shaw, and of course I got to meet a lot of rabid comics fans! See you at the next one!

Count Screwloose vs. Harry the Hoople Snake! Rare 1948 Comic Book Scans from Milt Gross

Here's another never-been-reprinted, scarcely-seen cartoon blast of brilliance from that Napoleon of nonsense, MILT GROSS! (Applause!!!)

This frenetic five-pager from 1948 was hidden in the back of issue #14 of ACG Comics "The Kilroys," which is otherwise just a run-of-the-mill teen comedy Archie-wanna-be. I gotta thank Eddie Trigueros for turning me on to this book. He was even nice enough to let me scan it, but like a doofus, I lost all the scans when I was resizing the images in Photoshop.

So I had to find the comic on eBay, and rescan my own copy. Good news is that these oddball funnybooks can be gotten online for not too much dough! I always try to find these golden-age cartoon and funny-animal comics in the worst condition possible. As long as they're readable, that's fine by me! I'd rather get four or five old crumbling comics for five bucks each than just one that's in more decent shape. Anyway, here are a few preview panels to get you warmed up...

There's no explanation for Harry the Hoople-Snake. He is what he is. It's a cartoon!

So after escaping the nuthouse, Count Screwloose ends up as a contestant on a radio quiz show...

What great crowds! Every face is hideously different. A real horror show for our hero.

WHAPPO! Man, I love the energy in this drawing below --

As usual, Count Screwloose escapes back IN to the Balmycrest Booby-Hatch where life is not so crazy!

The WHOLE five-page story is available to click on and download below.

Wow! The crowd LOVES it!

Just CLICK on each of the images below and a nice BIG comic book scan page will open in a new window. Enjoy!

Just CLICK on each of the images below and a nice BIG comic book scan page will open in a new window.

Fun + anarchy + cartooning genius = Milt Gross

A few months ago I posted a fantastic seven-page Count Screwloose comedy epic from ACG's Kilroys #5. Just CLICK below on the goofy dude smoking a mouthfull of cigars to jump over and see that delicious set of vintage comic book scans!

John K. wrote a couple posts that really sum up all that is wonderful about Milt Gross. Check out his insightful and heartfelt articles on Milt Gross HERE: all kinds of stuff: WOW. MILT GROSS. style, observation, sincerity, humanity
...and HERE: all kinds of stuff: Milt Gross comics, drawing with every principle EXCEPT construction

And the Asifa-Hollywood Animation Archive has some super scans of Milt Gross newspaper comics like Count Screwloose and Dave's delicatessen HERE.
UPDATE: There are a LOT more comic book scans to look at and download! Click HERE

super*MARKET - THE ANIMATOR SHOW! Come by and say, "Hi"

SUNDAY :: MARCH 30, 2008 12 pm-6pm
THE ANIMATOR SHOW!
MELTDOWN COMICS AND COLLECTIBLES IN HOLLYWOOD.
7522 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90046

I'm gonna be hanging out at the super*MARKET show at Meltdown on Sunday (March 30). A whole bunch of cartoonists from the LA animation scene will be there too, showing and selling all the comics we make when we're not working on a show.

I'll be there signing copies of my Character Design book, as well as selling some original art from the SpongeBob comics that I've drawn over the last few years for Nickelodeon Magazine. If you're in the Los Angeles area, I hope you'll stop by and say hello! For more info, CLICK on the super*MARKET picture above, or CLICK HERE. See you there!

Jim Tyer Heckle and Jeckle Comics - FUNNY Stuff!

Here's a delightfully silly Heckle and Jeckle comic
by the great Jim Tyer!

My friend Eddie Trigueros brought a stack
of old Terrytoons comics into the studio lately,
and he was kind enough to let me scan
this delicious Heckle and Jeckle romp
from the pages of a Mighty Mouse comic book.

Here are some preview panels, followed by some clickable links
that will open up nice big full pages so you can read the whole thing!
Have fun!

I don't wanna give away the whole story, but just look at these great drawings! (If you want to skip down to the full clickable pages, just scroll down past these preview panels.)

I love the way this whole story is set up in just a few
breakneck-paced panels! From here the story goes off on
half-a-dozen ridiculous comical tangents,
as you can see from some of the selected panels below...



As if knife-wielding cartoon Indians weren't enough...ALIENS!
And The James Boys!



This whole comic feels like total stream-of-consciousness stupidity.
Something that's sorely missing from comics these days...



Our boys had a great get-rich-quick scheme, but like all great comedy plans, this one has a big hole in it...



Here's the whole six-page story!
Just click on each page below and a nice BIG
FULL PAGE image will open in a new window!

Click on each page below and a nice BIG
FULL PAGE image will open in a new window



Click on each page below and a nice BIG
FULL PAGE image will open in a new window



UPDATE: There's LOTS more
comic book scans to look at and download! Click HERE