Doc Syke -- One-Page gag comic by Ving Fuller

Doc Syke -- One-Page gag comic by Ving Fuller
From Tip-Top Comics 158

Click HERE for full-sized comic book scan

More on Ving Fuller here:

http://screwballcomics.blogspot.com/p/ving-fuller.html

Droopy by Dan Gordon -- a spooky funny animal comic

A howlin' good one-pager from one of the greatest cartoonists ever: Dan Gordon!

From Laffy-Daffy Comics #2 1944

Click on the page above to see the FULL_SIZE page!

Lazy Lee in "Working Pains"

There's a one-page comic feature running in many issue of The Marvel Family -- called "Lazy Lee." A painfully simple one-note character, he appears in one-page (or half-page) gags (I can't call the stories!) that almost always end in a classic flop-take.

Click image above for the full-sized scan.

Lots of classic public-domain Captain Marvel comics at the Digital Comics Library

Fawcett Comics galore: https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?cid=3

Ernie Bushmiller – Fritzi Ritz Comics from 1949

Ernie Bushmiller’s Fritzi Ritz comics are a strange mixture of the truly bizarre and completely pedestrian. Fritzi Ritz started as a comic strip about a young single flapper girl from the Jazz Age of the 1920’s, created by Larry Whittington. When Whittington left the strip, Fritzi Ritz was taken over by his young assistant, Ernie Bushmiller.

Ernie Bushmiller introduced the character of Phil Fumble, Fritzi’s boyfriend and funnyman. Many of these strips start with a bizarre close-up on Phil as he utters a single line as the launching pad for the rest of the strip. Looking at the pages on this post alone shows him using this technique 75% of the time!! It’s a very artificial (but extremely economical) way of getting a gag rolling.

Here’s very typical opening panel:
 
I love that dopey wall-eyed look on Phil’s face!

Ernie Bushmiller later added a little girl character to the strip… Fritzi Ritz’s niece, Nancy. Eventually, Nancy and her friend Sluggo took over the strip, and those are the characters that brought long-time fame to cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller.

These Fritzi Ritz newspaper strips were later reformatted and published in comic book form. These pager are from Fritzi Ritz Comics #3 from 1949

  

More on Fritzi Ritz and Ernie Bushmiller at:

http://www.toonopedia.com/fritzi.htm

http://lambiek.net/artists/b/bushmiller_e.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_%28comics%29

Nancy comic strip scans – BIG archive online at:
http://ilovecomixnancy.blogspot.com/

Link to 1965 Fritzi Ritz Sunday comic strip original art

http://www.comicstripfan.com/newspaper/f/fritziritz.htm

Felix the Cat Hates His Job! Classic Comics by Otto Messmer

Felix hates his crummy job!
Some wonderfully cartoony Felix comics by Otto Messmer, 1953



Click any page to see the high-resolution, easy-to-read version!





There's a LOT more funny Felix comics by Otto Messmer here on the CartoonSnap blog!

Check out these previous posts for high-quality classic Felix the Cat comics scans :

Felix on the Unemployment Line
http://cartoonsnap.blogspot.com/2010/08/felix-on-unemployment-line-vintage_24.html

Felix the Cat Goes Cockfighting 
http://cartoonsnap.blogspot.com/2010/03/picaresque-tales-of-felix-cat-by-otto.html

Felix Pulls Through (a GREAT Magic-Carpet ride!) http://cartoonsnap.blogspot.com/2010/09/felix-friday-fiesta-fantastic-fun.html

Felix the Cat and the Haunted Tower
http://cartoonsnap.blogspot.com/2010/01/felix-cat-and-haunted-tower-by-otto.html

Ape Escapes! Museum Mayhem! More Super Rabbit Comic Book Scans

Here are some MORE old-timey funny-animal comics from
Super Rabbit Vol.1 Number 3 published by Comedy Publications, Inc.

(If you missed the previous Super Rabbit story, you can find it HERE.)

Click on any of the comic book pages to see a HUGE 300dpi detailed scan!

What does 300dpi look like? Well, when you click on the story pages below, you'll get to see them with detail like this...



This story starts off with two pages of pure cartoony silliness, then shifts gears a bit when Super Rabbit investigates some robberies at the museum.



Museums are among the best settings for any cartoon story, dontcha think?
There's always a mummy or a knight or a catapult nearby when you need one!



Okay..here we go! Enjoy this latest installment of Super Rabbit!



Click comic book pages to see a HUGE 300dpi detailed scan!





Click comic book pages to see a HUGE 300dpi detailed scan!





If you missed the last Super Rabbit story, you can find it HERE.
There's also more info on the comic book, the character, and the creators at:

Toonopedia article on Super Rabbit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Rabbit_(comics)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Hart

Super Rabbit Timely Comics Cover Gallery

ComicArtVille article on Vince Fago and Timely Comics

TwoMorrows Alter-Ego article on Vince Fago

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

Powerhouse Pepper by Basil Wolverton -- Who’ll Guard the Bodyguard?

Powerhouse Pepper 4-pager
from Tessie the Typist #10 June 1947
story and art by Basil Wolverton

Basil Wolverton's Powerhouse Pepper appeared in various comic books published by Timely Comics, the 1930s and 1940s precursor of Marvel Comics, from 1942 through 1952. The strip was characterized by alliterative, rhyming dialogue, screwball comedy and throwaway gags in background.

Stumble Inn by George Herriman

There's a lot of George Herriman's Krazy Kat being reprinted these days, but not so many people are familiar with one of his other newspaper comic strips from the 1920's, Stumble Inn.

Stumble Inn is kind of like Fawlty Towers in that it all takes place in a small hotel with a small cast of regular characters...

The Main characters are:
Uriah Stumble,

-- the long-suffering proprietor of the eponymous hotel...

Mr. Owl-Eye,

the "house dick"
(or hotel detective, if you please...)

Mr. Weewee (oui, oui)

the French chef who works in the kitchen

and Joe Beamish --

a character who does absolutely nothing but sleep in the soft chairs in the lobby. I gather from the strip that he's not a paying guest, but rather just a lazy local who takes up space. It's amazing how much mileage George Herriman can get out of a character that never so much as opens his eyes!

Oh -- and a never-ending supply of "guests"

that can "stumble in" to the strip for added comedy situations.

Okay -- enough intro!
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On with today's Stumble Inn comic strip ...

Here's the whole Stumble Inn comic strip at 300dpi...

Yes, folks...this giant 6-panel strip is a DAILY comic strip! It measure about 6 inches tall by 12 inches wide. Too big to fit in my scanner. It's bigger than today's Sunday strips! I bought a small run of 26 consecutive comic strips on eBay a few years ago, and every single one of them has just as much love and detail and early 20th century urban funkiness as this one does.

I love when Herriman is drawing in this mode. It reminds me of his illustrations for the Archy and Mehitabel books.

His pen strokes are so assured and bouncy, filling his cartoons with vim and vigor!

According to Allan Holtz at The Stripper's Guide, George Herriman's Stumble Inn ran 10/30/1922-1/9/1926. That's right in the middle of his Krazy Kat output. George Herriman worked on at least 27 different comic strip titles in his life, and oftentimes many different strips ran at the same time. During his 1913-1944 run on Krazy Kat, he also concurrently created strips such as this one and Baron Bean ( I always liked that play on words: barren bean = empty head. I love it when people called someone's head their "bean.")

There's a nice example of a Stumble Inn color Sunday page HERE.

On a personal note, it is the cartooning genius of George Herriman (along with Roy Crane, and Harvey Kurtzman) that got me really excited about the boundless possibilities of cartooning. Now that there are so many reprint projects going on, I urge you to seek out the work of these "old masters" of cartoon art.