Gluyas Williams Stuff

I noticed this when I was looking around in Google's newspaper search for more Gluyas Williams stuff:

Times sure have changed.

Gluyas Williams Stuff

There's been a little bit of activity regarding Gluyas Williams lately on the internet: First, a batch of dailies on Ger Apeldoorn's The Fabuleous Fifties blog; Second, on Allan Holtz's Strippers Guide, a 1949 Editor & Publisher write-up about cartoonist Francis Dahl with a quote from Gluyas Williams.

There's unfortunately not been any new activity on gluyaswilliams.com, but maybe I'll do some scanning when I'm too lazy to draw.

Also a H/T to Mike Lynch who beat me to the punch on these same links the other day.

The two drawings here are illustrations from the 1932 book Cut Off My Head by Jasper Whiting.

Gluyaswilliams.com Update

Tonight I added fifteen daily strips from 1929 to gluyaswilliams.com. How did you spend your Friday night??

This batch of scans was kind of a slapdash affair, as I was just plowing through my huge backlog of unscanned strips. While I uploaded fifteen strips tonight, I still have around 50 more from 1929, and a big stack I just bought from '45/'46, and still more from '24, '31, '27 and who knows what else.

Now and then I'll get a nice email from somebody who just discovered the site.

Gluyaswilliams.com Update

I added a batch of ten gags/illustrations done for Rand McNally to gluyaswilliams.com. These were made from scans I found on an ebay auction ages ago, I did my best to fix them up. The one I've posted here was too far gone, so I didn't post it to gw.com, but nothing is too shitty looking to put on a blog.

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Gluyaswilliams.com Update

I added three daily strips from 1924 to gluyaswilliams.com. In an effort to get more strips up faster, I didn't go to any trouble cleaning these up, or making black-line versions. They look good either way. With luck there'll be more to come!

For more info on Gluyas Williams don't hesitate to checkout the latest issue of Comic Art Magazine, which includes a nice article by Jeet Heer and published by the estimable Buenaventura Press. This issue also features a cover by pal Tim Hensley and a additional book by other pal Ivan Brunetti. It's been on the stands for over a year, so you've probably bought one already.

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Gluyaswilliams.com Update

I added a nice write-up/interview from the February 1976 issue of Yankee Magazine to gluyaswilliams.com. The site's really shaping up into a first-class high school research project.

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Complete Guide to Professional Cartooning

Steve Worth over at the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive blog has begun posting pages from Gene Byrnes' Complete Guide to Professional Cartooning! My pal Marc Crisafulli has loaned the Archive his copy of the book. I posted a few pages from the same book in the last couple weeks, but Steve looks like he's able to put them up at a much faster clip than I ever could. So, go over there and check them out, but don't stop looking here!!!

Links to pages I posted:
page 150: F.G. Cooper
page 151: Gluyas Williams
pages 240-249: Fred Quimby / MGM Animation

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Gluyaswilliams.com Update

Today I added a little bit of new stuff to gluyaswilliams.com, and put most of the illustrations section back online. There's a new image for the main page, too, that looks kind of snazzy.

Anyhow, this is the first site I've made that uses CSS, so if it doesn't look the same on your browser as it does in the image up above, let me know...

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From Filboid Studge: Gluyas Williams at Life

An excellent group of Gluyas Williams images from his early days at Life magazine are up now on Filboid Studge's blog!

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Redesign of gluyaswilliams.com

I've redesigned gluyaswilliams.com. I'm not quite done moving all the stuff over from the old site, but there are a couple new articles added on. Tell me what you think!

Gluyaswilliams.com - New Stuff

I added ten illustrations from the poetry book Translations from the Chinese by Christopher Morley. They're all done with graywashes, which I haven't seen a lot of from Gluyas Williams. CHECK THEM OUT! (in the "illustrations" section)

I also added three strips from 1929. On two of them I left the newsprint color instead of bleaching it out; I know some people like to see them that way.

Your Favorite Cartoonist

If you're reading this, and you're the type with a favorite cartoonist that nobody else seems to know about, and you've been hoarding stuff by your favorite cartoonist that you haven't shown anyone else, and you know HTML, then you owe it to yourself and all of us to make a website about YOUR FAVORITE CARTOONIST. A domain name costs ten bucks a year. A webhost is free (well, mostly: doteasy.com charges you a one-time $35 domain transfer fee, and after that it's free. Or you could just use a blog, which is entirely free). You probably already have a scanner. There you have it!

Check these grassroots cartoonist sites:
Alex Toth
Mort Meskin
K. Huizenga's Misc. stuff

If you have a good one send me the link, because I can't think of any more, but there's gotta be some.

I'm mentioning this because I've done it, and the product is www.gluyaswilliams.com. There's not a ton of material there at the moment, but I'll add more over time. I've got the stuff, so I might as well share it.