Danny Dutch #41 & #42

Two new comic strips in my horrid Flickr set!

Henry Boltinoff

Henry Boltinoff from Adventure Comics #330, 1964

Comic-Con is Finally Over

Take a gander at my Flickr set of con pics and our comic-con blog, Funny Town Humor Pump.

Henry Boltinoff

Here's a few strips by Henry Boltinoff! They're dumb, but the guy can cartoon astonishingly. I get old comics now and then, I'll try to post these here and on Flickr as I come across them. Boltinoff did comics to fill space in DC magazines for 150 years.

More Boltinoff
My Previous Boltinoff Post

Danny Dutch #40

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #36

I didn't do anything for a month! Anyhow, I'm a step away from just killing this blog since I never post much of anything anymore...You should bookmark the Danny Dutch Strip RSS Feed or my Flickr photostream since that seems to be where all the big action is. Also keep an eye on reliablecomics.com since I just renewed the domain for another year. And don't forget to buy Danny Dutch's Illiterate Yellow Funny Book from my inestimable pooblisher Sparkplug Comic Books and Stories. That's it, I guess.

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #35

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #34

It's hard to get these done! I complained to a friend about the ungodly amount of drawing that goes into doing train tracks.

Weekly Strip #33

Not much for blogging lately, I guess. I'll post the finished #33 tomorrow or Saturday...

Oh, take a look at my APE photos here. It was a blast; I learned that I speak in a gruesome indifferent monotone, just like Tom Neely.

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #32

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #31

For next week

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #30

For this week, whenever it is.

Some of my best lettering in this one.

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #29

For the week of September 29-October 5.

I guess I'll use the thumbnail Flickr provides, but it's pretty small so you have to click through, sorry.

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #28

Strip #28

This is the last one that'll go into my Danny Dutch comic book, coming soon. I'll probably take a week or two off from drawing the strips to mess around with cover coloring and complicated junk like that. Please keep checking back, though.

Also, congratulations to the other cartoonists who were nominated for the Ignatz award in the Oustanding Online Comic category (Chris Onstad, Jesse Reklaw, Joey Sayers, Tracy White), one of which will win.

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #27

Strip #27 first panel, all finished! Congratulations!

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #27

Strip #27. i'm really making some headway lately! I just have one more strip to do to complete enough for my upcoming comic book. I drew the cover over the weekend. I think it'll look pretty good, I guess.

Busts!

I'm going to use these as part of the design on the inside covers of my upcoming comic book. With luck it'll be in color, with some additional designey junk.

Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #26

First panel of #26

I like the way that small lettering at the bottom came out.

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Weekly Strip #25

This is the first panel to strip #25

Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon linked to the strip today which was pretty neighborly of him. If you came from there thanks for the interest. I've only posted the first panel of the last few strips as a tease for the eventual mini-comic version that I'm planning for APE in November.

You may also want to look at the Flickr set of the strips for an easier reading experience ( I think so, anyway). I tend to get stuff posted there before I put it here--gotta get my money's worth!

Morey Amsterdam

I've been on a Dick Van Dyke Show binge the last couple nights; this made it to the margin of weekly strip #24.

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Danny Dutch Weekly Strip #24

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Sketches for Comic Strip

Here's a couple of sketches I did to practice for this week's strip (coming next week!). This is Penny, Danny Dutch's girlfriend, and I've used her so seldom I always have to re-learn how to draw her. Sorry about the weird colors; she looks like a scary doll.

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Links: Henry Boltinoff

I saw this post at Pappy's Golden Age and was reminded of how nice Henry Boltinoff's cartooning is. I don't have any scans of my own to show or anything, but here's a LINK ROUND UP: Gorilla Daze: some one- and half-pagers from DC Comics Dial B for Blog: A selection of Super-Turtles Stripper's Guide: Woody Forest Toonopedia: Boltinoff bio Mania Dos Quadradinhos: Info and Woody Forest(Google Translation) DC Indexes: Mother Lode of Boltinoff DC Filler Strips

I really like this smarmy "publicity man" from Alan Ladd #8.

Little Lulu

From deep in the annals of memory.loc.gov

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Half Way

These are the pencil roughs for panels 3 and 4 of weekly strip #12, which I'll post next Wednesday, March 26.

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Supplies

Just felt like putting up a picture of the pens and stuff I've been cartooning with lately. I ink all the characters with the brush pen. The backgrounds are done with the 512 nib and the brush pen. B-3 for the panel borders, B-5 for the balloon edges and other lines here and there, B-6 for that stuff, too. I use the Pigma Graphic 1 for the lettering, but may try switching to B-5 or B-3 for that eventually. I use the Micron 8 for fixing stuff here and there. I have a couple of brushes but only really use those for filling in blacks or applying white corrections.

That's a lead holder I got from the Colorado Art Istitute when I went there, I presume all brands are alike, mine's pretty good. I use a pretty hard lead, but I can't remember the number. It seems like it's 2H or 2B? I dunno. It comes out pretty light, erases pretty easily.

I also use a bottle of ink, right now it's Bombay brand, seems pretty good, and Pro White for white out and snazzy white on black effects, if I feel like it (i've done it once or twice only).

I really like the lines I get from the 512 nib and I've been using it all over the place on my comic strips. I really never used nibs very much, but I finally gave them a try after having one of those Speedball starter packs floating around forever. If you're scared you should try them out yourself. I still haven't gotten the hang of the Hunt 102, though.

Running Late

I didn't get started on my strip until today, so I may not make it by Wednesday, but anything can happen.

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Popeye Ad

Just playing around with this Popeye movie ad that was posted on Cartoon Brew today. I'm trying to create the most high-contrast black and white blog on the internet.

Today's Sketchbook

Not actually sketchbook, but rather slick polished finished drawing-work.

Today's Sketchbook

I don't have a job now, so the sketchbook's seeing some action. Up above I was fooling around with a drawing style that nobody really does anymore. It could be considered the "lightbulb head' school of cartooning. Down there is just some random character stuff. Hope you like it!

By the way, I know I don't have a huge readership here, but if you're looking via RSS please leave a comment, just to give me an idea whether I'm liked or not.

Men in the Street

I got this issue of The Dude at Comicon this past July because it included the following article about comedy team, Men in the Street, that is, Don Knotts and two other guys. There are also some gag cartoons and lots of pictures of naked girls.

Below are two gags from the magazine by Reamer Keller and Lou Myers.

Today's Sketchbook

It's been awhile! Here's my sketchbook output for the last couple weeks. I got a few more panels of that comics strip, but haven't scanned em yet. Does anybody even like stuff like this?

Don't forget to click for the big version!

Today's Sketchbook

It's fun to try to draw a cute girl sometimes. And I aplogize for the lack of posts, in case anybody is still looking...

Keeping Women In Line

Here's more of those gag book covers, continued from here. One of these days I might post some of the gags themselves, if the books don't turn to dust first.

Titles are: More There Oughta Be a Law! by Al Fagaly and Harry Shorten; Grin and Bear It by George Lichty; Keeping Women In Line by Mischa Richter.

For more of what may or may not be Al Fagaly's cartooning, see my Super Duck post.

For Stags Only

Here's some male chauvinist gag book covers that I bought the other day. I have three more that I'll try to post soon!

Titles are: Laughter is Legal by Dr. Francis Leo Golden; For Stags Only edited by Sandy Nelkin and Pat Untermeyer; Bachelor's Joke Book by Leo Guild.

UPDATE: I've posted the other three covers here.

Velha Guarda

I came across this incredible album cover tonight at a Brazilian music sharing blog, International Restored LP. Click to see the glorious giant sized version. I didn't listen to the album yet, but I hope it's as good as the cover makes it out to be...

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It's For You

This is a discard print from the batch I made for the Gocco Set, a set of prints made with the Print Gocco pocket silkscreening toy, put together a couple years ago by my friends, and powerful cartoonists, Onsmith and Ivan Brunetti. This particular print suffers from being way off-register and there's some weak spots that didn't get any ink. It was also printed on mylar, which is a little too slick and not porous enough for the ink, so the prints took a week to dry. I'm also interested to see what'll happen, if anything, to these over time if the mylar starts out-gassing or degrading somehow. So far they look the same...

I'm planning another gocco print since I have a lot of time on my hands lately (I'm new in town and unemployed--won't you please help?). And I still have a couple of the Gocco Sets for sale, contact me at david @ reliablecomics . com

How Animated Cartoons Were Made

Here's a few pages from The Complete Guide to Professional Cartooning by Gene Byrnes. The text in this section is credited to Fred Quimby, producer of most (or all?) of MGM's 40s and 50s cartoon shorts, but most likely written by somebody else. Lots of photos of late-40s MGM staff, including Joe Barbera, Bill Hanna, Tex Avery and Scott Bradley. Also, model sheets, paint mixers and more. Hope you like it!

Let me know you're interested and I'll try to post more from this great book...

Link to a large scan of the "Ol' Rockin' Chair Tom" storyboard (530k)

Super Duck Comic

This is a 6-page Super Duck comic that was reprinted in Pat the Brat Digest #1 back in 1980. I'm not sure where or when it originally appeared. And since the scans are from a digest, the color dots are big and the whole thing looks kind of lousy. ENJOY

UPDATE: According to this post at The Beat, Joe Edwards, regular artist on Super Duck, passed away last Thursday, 2/8. I presume he did this story, but I'm not sure. Either way, R.I.P. Joe Edwards.

Today's Sketchbook

The guy on the left is basically Shermy from Peanuts, but grown up. I think I'll eventually use him in a comic and his personality will be based on a guy I used to work with in Chicago named Larry. On the right is Welby from Reliable Comics #1 (for sale). As far as drawings go, these aren't bad, but I'd like them to be a little looser; I'll have to keep working at it.

Unemployment Funnies

Colored using the swatches from this site, found via boingboing

Huckleberry Hound

From my sketchbook

From Swapatorium: Eddie and Louise

Some great old amateur cartooning was posted on Swapatorium. Beautiful stuff!

Best Cartoons of 1945