WolfieToons by Dave Wolfe

WolfieToons by Dave Wolfe

Saturday, January 28, 2017

Comics Context!

So did you have a look at SPK Comics yet?  It's one of the very best collections of comic strip spankings
I've ever seen on the Web-- and it's free!! 

There are rare and wonderful things on display there, and you can at last see the full context of individual panels that have been floating around the internet for a long time!  For instance, there's this cartoon--



which I defiled thus--



and thus--





but I never knew from whence it came, and really wanted to!

And Lo!  It came to pass, thanks to SPK Comics!






I knew this L'l Abner drawing from Al Capp 





was based on an early episode in the comic strip



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and had been done for a magazine-- but I hadn't seen the magazine page until now!  Behold!  From LIFE, January 1957!!





Speaking of Li'l Abner, I bet you've seen this:



And here's what was going on!



Years ago, the Spirit had this on his website and in various Yahoo Groups:



And here's its cotext!  It is a less than pristine microfilm copy-- but SPK Comics gets creidit for scouring it out at all!  



Here's another:  



You can see a much bigger version at SPK Comics!  Things are nicely organized over there, too, with indexes and categories!

So click on over and enjoy!


Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Make Someone Happy!

Start the song and kinda slowly scroll on down while it's playing!













































(This would be better as a slide show, but this way you can look as long as you like!)