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Just something whimsical today. Is your state red?

Sarah Palin's new Clothes and the Liberal Media

Obama's Wealth Spreading

Hello, all — This is my new blog.  It's easier to deal with, I find, than Wordpress.  I'll try to get a few new cartoons up every week.

Up on Obama Mountain

LifeNews has an interesting article on Doug Kmeic, that flaky "catholic" who has endorsed Barack Obama, with some good points by Fr. Frank Pavone.

For me, I think they've basically sold their souls.

Read about it here:
http://www.lifenews.com/nat4467.html

Nigel Parkinson a fun comic artist for today

This one made me laugh out loud....it is soo funny.




Here is the moment when the Dandy changed. Each week the man Nigel drew would take down a letter of The Dandy. A fun idea. The Dandy changed to a more glossy paper and new characters joined. Last year The Dandy has changed again to Dandy Extreem with more features and less comic pages. Personally I prefer The Dandy has a comic than a magazine/comic.




Click on all images to see in full..

I like Nigels work a lot. He has drawn Bea, Dennis the Menace and Gnasher, Cuddles and Dimples, Bash Street kids singled out, Lord Snooty the Third etc..also Rats and others for The Beezer annuals. He has drawn or ghosted in The Beano and Nutty in the 80's...for example some of Roger the Dodge Clinics problem section..normally drawn by Robert Nixon at that time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Parkinson

Nigels big break was with Bea in the late 90's Beano Dennis the Menace baby sister.

I love his Cuddles and Dimples strip best in The Dandy...Started in the issue you see above..(before that drawn by Barrie Appleby who draws Roger the Dodger today)...it works for adults as well as children...as the parents are also featured strongly. Also the Mum is hot!!:))

The colouring on all thses are unusual and stand out. Its beacuse they are coloured with felt pens..which give a great effect. Computer colouring is mostly used today...But pens seem to have a more personal touch..great shading effect. He is good at not going over the line.. I think I like the pen effect so much has it reminds me of The Mr Men by Roger Hargeaves...it gives the child the impression that he or she can do this as well.

Nigel is great at the crowd scene..the busy picture...he has done some great posters.

Nigel is also great at the splat!..splash!..Splosh!.splish! etc...I would say its his trademark.
His characters are always making a mess....splashing through puddles...landing in ponds...cakes going into peoples faces..mud sploshing up..great action scenes.

Another fun trademark is the many signs he puts everywhere throughout the strip..the more the merrier I say.

Cheers to Nigel.....I'm a fan!:)

http://thelittlechimpsociety.com/theape/lcs-interview-nigel-parkinson/

http://itn.co.uk/tags/nigel_parkinson.html

"Daffy Dilly"....in the comics

I sure had to post this!
It's a comic version of "Daffy Dilly"....starring Sam in the millionaire role!!!










Sam, in the comics, was almost always drawn as a pirate, while, in the cartoons, his western villain self is the most celebrated and known.

See Ya,

Andrea

A Tribute to Les Barton

Cor!! 1970.







Both from Whizzer and Chips annual 1973. Click on images to see in full.

Les Barton has died But like Ken Hunter he has left us with a wonderful comic legacy.
See I Spy and his other work by clicking the label tab Les Barton below for other posts I've done on Les.

Lew Stringer, Down the tube and Bear Alley blogs have also done tributes.
http://www.comicsuk.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2301

Cheers to Les.
Thank you.

Ken Hunter what a great comic legacy

Beezer 1970. Click on image to see it in full.

Ken Hunter has died last Monday morning, living a full life and reaching 91 years old.
My prayer are with his family and friends at this sad time.

http://www.comicsuk.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2302&p=17658#p17658

To see Ken's amazing comic work use the label tab marked Ken Hunter below to see The Jellymen, Danny's Tranny and many more.

Cheers to Ken.

Dudley D Watkins King of perspective

click on both halves to see the whole page in full.

Every panel is full of depth...height...different angles..depth...and fun!

The last panel with all the item Mickey climbed is a great payoff.

Perspective should be used more in comics. It is so powerful.
Also the use of distance.

So get your rulers out..

Heaven - Obama Style

Can you just imagine HIM manning the Pearly Gates?

Confession with Fr. Obama

I know it's quite a scandal to even jokingly put "Fr." in front of "Obama", but what the hey...
Obama's comments to "Joe the Plumber" about taking Joe's money and giving it to those who didn't work for it is quite telling about how much of a socialist he really is.

Something NEW has been Added!

Time for something different!
I'm a big fan of the various DC animated series developed by Bruce Timm and Paul Dini.
Here you have one great episode from "Batman the Animated Series". The animation here is not good as it actually used to be during the series, and even in that case is nothing spectacular but, ehy, this is from the 90s.
The story is terrific, the main character is a riot, and there are a lot of memorable lines.
Gentlemen, here you have "The Man who killed Batman", in three parts.

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Please let me know if you liked this particular out-of-the Golden Age trip,

Andrea

Black Bob by Jack Prout

What a great artist Jack was.....lets have a closer look at this Black Bob strip from a 1961 Dandy comic.

The first frame shows a good white space....its very easy to fill up a picture with lots of hatching and detail..very hard to leave space...making it easier on the eye. The wording Black Bob stands out despite a dark black background and black letters...great face on Black Bob being cheeky and sticking his tongue out.

Frame two a nice mirror image of the man and Black Bob running out of view. The angle has changed in the picture. Also looking down on the image.

Frame three has wonderful brick work...no short cuts every brick is different. Lighter hatching and darker hatching by pen to different degrees. Nice wooden door effect.

Frame four has good distance with smaller bricks on the stable. This is very tricky to do. Also a good sky downward at an angle strokes. Darker bricks to show shadows.

Frame five nice use of action white lines to show the barrel rolling.

Frame six great wavy line wool effect on the ram.

Frame seven A different sky...Jack always making everything unique.

Frame eight shows lovely pen work on the corn...he really knew what each of these objects looked like...really has studyed it...not second guess..

Overall an amazing piece of work...very carefully done...no rushing...

An early Mickey the Monkey by Dudley D Watkins

a quote from Spy
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WHAT A DIFFERENCE seeing the real Mc Coy like this: 'CLASSICS from the COMICS' does this work noreal justice.........many thanks for seeing these excellent historical works, PETER......

from Beano and Dandy forum..
http://tiptopgolfy.proboards101.com/index.cgi

I agree with Spy its great to see these images as large and in colour. With all the detail intact. Some of the red wording or anything red is lost in the black and white of Classics or Best of Topper.

Studying the picture.
Dudley is great at making the picture alive. So many angles like top or bottom point of view. Also characters going in and out of the frame..perspective. If I was drawing this I would of made it flat...left to right...But Dudley has inspired me with his depth he has in each frame...nothing is flat!!! Every frame is different another amazing thing. The wheels on the chair are different each time the same with the open book...different angles a real feeling of movement (frame 7,8,9). I love frame 10....Mickey coming towards us...figures in background. Frame 4,5,6 is great animation of someone swimming. Also the room slowly spins at the same time of the push off by Mickey.

So much in one page to study and learn.....also to laugh and admire.

Pete Hawley Halloween

Hundreds more beautiful Hawley scans on Cartoon Retro!

Frank McDiarmid's first comic work

This is from 1958.
Rummy Rhymes and Quick Slick is also drawn by him.
Our Ned is drawn by Albert Holroyd.

Frank started the puzzle page in October 1957 Beano.

Thanks to the Hisory of The Beano the story so far...I'm learning who drew what and when. Amazing Frank has been in the comic business so early...who later drew Cheeky in Cheeky comic.




Considering it was a hot sunny day I did well at the craft fair in Woking......earned £39.
I like the idea of my cartoons on someones mantlepiece being enjoyed 8) ..
Also gave out all my cartoon business cards.
So a good moral booster.

Dudley D Watkins Adventure books in picture form.

These exciting books are brilliantly drawn in picture form by Dudley D Watkins. It really makes you want to read the actual book. These were not only in the 50's Topper But also shown in the Weekly News also in published books. Love to see these reissued in the Weekly News or in book form again.

My craft fair is tomorrow at Woking sports centre all day. See you there...with lots of cartoon Birthday/Christmas cards drawn by me and the chance to commission me for any cartoon work needed.