New Osamu Tezuka Manga
The Japan Times reports on an unpublished manga created by Osamu Tezuka in his teens.
Profile of Jill Thompson
TimeOut Chicago profiles comics creator Jill Thompson. Thompson’s the creator of Scary Godmother and co-collaborator with Evan Dorkin on Beasts of Burden. “Thompson’s dad started buying comics for her, first Archie, then superhero stories. ‘That was like my crack,’ she says. ‘What did I have in my little […]
Pioneers of Animation: Winsor McCay
True Classics has a lovely retrospective of vaudevillian, cartoonist and animator, Winsor McCay. “McCay got his start in entertainment doing “chalk talks” on the vaudeville circuit. Much like J. Stuart Blackton, a groundbreaking figure in early animation in his own right, McCay drew figures on a chalkboard and altered […]
The Specter of Frankenstein
The specter of Victor Frankenstein’s creature has been haunting me, confronting me with the horror of his creation and inherent in his being. He stalks me, in his way, as surely as he stalked Victor. Perhaps he’s just been curiously peering at me, as the creature watched humans […]
Salvador Dali’s Struggle, Illustrated by Molly Crabapple
Molly Crabapple illustrates Salvador Dalí’s personal manifesto, “My Struggle.”
Cartoon America
The Library of Congress has an online exhibit on the history of illustration, cartoons, animation, single panel gag cartoons and comic strips in the United States. (via @fantagraphics)
The Cultural Gutter 