I Think It's The Ass-Slapping That Got To Me

.....not that I'm into that sort of thing actually. Vitameatavegamin this ain't. Vita, yes. Meata, yes. But vegamin, no. Quite the seductive babe, one might say. This was long before she got that only occasionally appearing weird Charles Gibson brow, and way, way before getting all moved by the chickdudeish Wayne Newton and befuddled by Burton and Taylor on Here's Lucy or The Lucy Show.

December 1941 Famous Funnies

Comics that aggregated newspaper comics and reprinted them along with some dedicated content. Dense and serialized. Read along with me - I have not yet.



Fearless Flint protects America's property from South Sea Islanders working on the as yet unfinished Mount Rushmore:



Connie - that it - just Connie - mixes it up in space (this one's a wallpaper):



Oakey Doakes gets chased by a rare Euro Panda:



A very early Steve Roper reenacts that purchase of Native American lands:



Santa messes up:



Plus Margaret Bourke-White, Jacqueline of Holland, and freaky tranny-style Albanians!



All pix (except the one with the wallpaper link) link to the comic

Toy Movie Reconstructed

I bought this years and years ago, and have never seen it, owing to the dearth of 16mm projectors in my life these days. It came in a small orange cardboard box marked Kiddy Toy Safety Film. It was about 5' long (additionally rendering its viewability problematic) and was intended to be viewed in some sort of toy movie viewer/projector.


It's been driving me nuts, wondering all these years what's on the film. The protagonist, named Kitty Cat, bears a striking resemblance to Otto Messmer's Felix the Cat.

I put the film in my scanner, scanned it at 1800dpi or so and dragged each frame through a 720px x 480px window saving each frame and then dropping it all into Movie Maker with properties set at .125 seconds per image. The results are below.

The motivation to experience this stems from years of Kenner Give-a-Show projectors and ViewMasters. There's the insightful bloggish psychological bit.

Lastly, it's a little washed out, because the original is a little washed out.

Looks good? Blow it up & see.
Enhancements did little to improve, but did not really worsen it. I added some music appropriate to the content and voila'. I was urged by my son to not desaturate, and aesthetically, I agree.

History Of Architecture and Ornament II

Companion to the original post about the gorgeous 50 cent book used in a correspondence course. all pix are links here and there (w/1 exception)

More Nancy in Sparkler 41 from 1945

1945....

Just one story this time. I was reminded by Frankenstein comics guy that Bushmiller used to draw Nancy with a toothpick. The Tootsie Roll ad in the back is fantastic.



Spark Man...WTF?


Volto The Shill


Hey Kids! Cuts Like Razors!


Big-haired Hap


Slats' ladies:


All pix = link

All pix = link