Craig Yoe, my cowriter and editor on Behaving Madly, first came to my attention with his ARF series of books. Like the immense and eclectic collection in his home, these books are a mixed bag f intersting ilustrations, strips and comic book pages. One of the most interesting things he collected were the many samples of comic books and newspaper strip artists doing gags about modert art. Usually the point of the gag was that the artists were just throwing some paint unto the cnavas or that kids or even monkeys could do it just as well. An opinion that has remained til this day, even though the real modern art movement is almost 100 years old now. So whenever I am clipping and scanning and I come across one of the art related gags, I make a copy for Craig and send it to him. I have not kept them all in my own files, but her are some I could find.
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Showing posts with label Craig Yoe. Show all posts
Monday, November 13, 2017
Not So Serious Art
Saturday Leftover Day.
Craig Yoe, my cowriter and editor on Behaving Madly, first came to my attention with his ARF series of books. Like the immense and eclectic collection in his home, these books are a mixed bag f intersting ilustrations, strips and comic book pages. One of the most interesting things he collected were the many samples of comic books and newspaper strip artists doing gags about modert art. Usually the point of the gag was that the artists were just throwing some paint unto the cnavas or that kids or even monkeys could do it just as well. An opinion that has remained til this day, even though the real modern art movement is almost 100 years old now. So whenever I am clipping and scanning and I come across one of the art related gags, I make a copy for Craig and send it to him. I have not kept them all in my own files, but her are some I could find.
Craig Yoe, my cowriter and editor on Behaving Madly, first came to my attention with his ARF series of books. Like the immense and eclectic collection in his home, these books are a mixed bag f intersting ilustrations, strips and comic book pages. One of the most interesting things he collected were the many samples of comic books and newspaper strip artists doing gags about modert art. Usually the point of the gag was that the artists were just throwing some paint unto the cnavas or that kids or even monkeys could do it just as well. An opinion that has remained til this day, even though the real modern art movement is almost 100 years old now. So whenever I am clipping and scanning and I come across one of the art related gags, I make a copy for Craig and send it to him. I have not kept them all in my own files, but her are some I could find.
Sunday, July 16, 2017
Jigsey Doubble Dooples
Friday Comic Book Day.
A couple of years ago Craig Yoe made a bok collecting the best of Archie's Madhouse. The spoof title (a Mad influenced comic book for kids featuring Archie and his friends) does not feature in Behaving Madly, our new book on Mad magazine imitation because it's a. a comic, b. not in the right time period and c. already colelcted. The bok itself (which I can highly recommend) was a visual inspiration for Behaving Msdly, though. From the borderlines cover (a must for this type of books) to the system used for naming the contributions (one line underneath the first page).
Like on Behaving Madly, Craig could not use every page of the title in the collection. Here are the first 11 pages of one of my favorite early features in Archie's Madhouse, Jughead's Dipsy Doodles. Sounds like something they could reuse on Riverdale with a whole different meaning.
A couple of years ago Craig Yoe made a bok collecting the best of Archie's Madhouse. The spoof title (a Mad influenced comic book for kids featuring Archie and his friends) does not feature in Behaving Madly, our new book on Mad magazine imitation because it's a. a comic, b. not in the right time period and c. already colelcted. The bok itself (which I can highly recommend) was a visual inspiration for Behaving Msdly, though. From the borderlines cover (a must for this type of books) to the system used for naming the contributions (one line underneath the first page).
Like on Behaving Madly, Craig could not use every page of the title in the collection. Here are the first 11 pages of one of my favorite early features in Archie's Madhouse, Jughead's Dipsy Doodles. Sounds like something they could reuse on Riverdale with a whole different meaning.
Wednesday, July 06, 2016
Calling All Fans
Friday Comic Book Day.
I have said it before and I will say it again. Marvel and DC are sitting on treasure troves of comic book art from the forties and sixties. In this period most books were of the anthology style, each containing many shorter stories. In the forties, this meant that many new heroes could be tried out - a great deal of which have survived over the decades. In the late forties and fifties, when hero comics made way for genre books, whole issues were filled with stories about characters which could not be picked up in later books (the occasional Groot notwithstanding). In many cases these stories represent the best artwork of certain artist. Our view of their career is colored by what is reprinted and not by what they drew. Artists such as Gene Colan, George Tuska, Joe Sinnott, Dick Ayers, Don Heck, Paul Reinman, Bob Powell and many, many others are often misrepresented in books about their work, just because not everyone has every comic ever published and those from Marvel and DC have the extra problem of being worth a lot of money - especially if there happens to be a very collectable superhero story in the same book (something that especially counts for the late forties DC books). Of course these companies have tried their own reprint series, but both tried to rely on the know to sell the unknonw. In DC's case, this meant that most of their reprint books were character based, collectingall of Wonder Woman from her various comics, but none of the seperate stories by artists such as Carmine Infantino, Irwin Hasen or Bernie Krigstein from the same books. Marvel tried to reprint whole books or lines, but that meant they had to choose series that have a few duds as possible. Neither have tried doing it the Craig Yoe way, the whose IDW imprint Yoe Books has books that are selected either by aris, by genre or by sunject. Now that all reprint series from Marvel and DC have been cancelled I suggest they open their library to Craig and have him do his type of books for them. Horror collections with only the best stories by the best artists, overview books of the careers of Gene Colan or Russ Heath or Carmine Infantino or even Henry Boltinoff or subject related books, such as a reprint of historical stories from Marvel's war books from the fifties. So that we can have more of this:
I have said it before and I will say it again. Marvel and DC are sitting on treasure troves of comic book art from the forties and sixties. In this period most books were of the anthology style, each containing many shorter stories. In the forties, this meant that many new heroes could be tried out - a great deal of which have survived over the decades. In the late forties and fifties, when hero comics made way for genre books, whole issues were filled with stories about characters which could not be picked up in later books (the occasional Groot notwithstanding). In many cases these stories represent the best artwork of certain artist. Our view of their career is colored by what is reprinted and not by what they drew. Artists such as Gene Colan, George Tuska, Joe Sinnott, Dick Ayers, Don Heck, Paul Reinman, Bob Powell and many, many others are often misrepresented in books about their work, just because not everyone has every comic ever published and those from Marvel and DC have the extra problem of being worth a lot of money - especially if there happens to be a very collectable superhero story in the same book (something that especially counts for the late forties DC books). Of course these companies have tried their own reprint series, but both tried to rely on the know to sell the unknonw. In DC's case, this meant that most of their reprint books were character based, collectingall of Wonder Woman from her various comics, but none of the seperate stories by artists such as Carmine Infantino, Irwin Hasen or Bernie Krigstein from the same books. Marvel tried to reprint whole books or lines, but that meant they had to choose series that have a few duds as possible. Neither have tried doing it the Craig Yoe way, the whose IDW imprint Yoe Books has books that are selected either by aris, by genre or by sunject. Now that all reprint series from Marvel and DC have been cancelled I suggest they open their library to Craig and have him do his type of books for them. Horror collections with only the best stories by the best artists, overview books of the careers of Gene Colan or Russ Heath or Carmine Infantino or even Henry Boltinoff or subject related books, such as a reprint of historical stories from Marvel's war books from the fifties. So that we can have more of this:
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Pre Mole
I have been slowly scanning all of my pretty large collection Sunday Jacky's Diary strips by Jack Mendelsohn. This delightful and funny strip from the late fifties and early sixties is a prime example of what I love about the comedy and newspaper strips of that period. It is intelligent, welldrawn and satirical in the oldfashioned sense of the word - pointing out negatives and discrepensies in the world around us without tearing it down. Today we often sperate the negative and the positive, but these guys knew how to combine it.
Anyway, I shouldn't have bothered, because Craig Yoe prouced a beautiful reprinting of all the Sunday strips with the help of Mr. Mendelsohn, who is still with us and runs a very informative website about his career. As usual, Craig has added an opening article that tells you all you need to know about Jack Mendelsohn and his career and I highly recommend it, as I do all of Craigs books. You can buy it at Amazon for under $30.
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Giving Away Prizes!
Hi, Halloween Lovers! Today we announce the prize winners of the contest organized by Yoe Books and IDW. Together with the four blogs and sites mentioned below, they are giving away five books from the Yoe Books collection. In total 146 people entered their name at my special email adress and one came in late and was allowed to join by a special commission made up by me and myself. I forced a zombie to eat all the entries and then randomly picked one out when he couldn't keep it down. We said it would be gruesome and believe me, it was! The winner of the on ebook I was allowed to give away is announced below. Unfortunately it was someone who didn't leave his ground adress, so please get in touch with me at the same email adress as the contest used and I will take care that everything will be arranged for you when I get back from my trip to the comic festival in Lucca next Sunday.
These were the sites. Go there to see who the other winners is and if you like horror comics, please add them to you list.
1. http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com
2. http://fourcolorshadows.blogspot.com/
3. http://allthingsger.blogspot.com/
4. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Yoe-Books/157174217659112
5. https://www.facebook.com/idwpublishing/
The winner of my part of the contect is Rich Clabaugh. Congratulations. You understand you now have to visit my blog at least once a week! All the others, I suggest you pick up at least one of Craigs books or the Haunted Horror comic book to see what you have missed.
Just to remind you, it is stuff like this...
Monday, October 28, 2013
Final Days
Yesterday I showed two Mort meskin stories and mentioned a third without showing it. I wanted to say that Meskin also did a couple of stories for Standard with George Roussos, also including one upublished story, the original art of which I found at Greg Land's galery at Comic Art Fans. Wouldn't it be great to see this in color?
And now, a word from our sponsor..
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Fright Fans! You have five places where to win Yoe Books/IDW's complete Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! Those are the spine tingling collections of banned comics from the 1950s include "Dick Briefer's Frankenstein", "Bob Powell's Terror", "Zombies", the brand new, "Jack Cole's Deadly Horror" and the soon to be released "Haunted Horror hardback! Enter your name each place for four chances to win!
The sponsoring blogs and Facebook page are The Horrors of it All , Four Color Shadows, The Fabulous Fifties, the Yoe Books page on Facebook, and the IDW Publishing page on Facebook. Go here to each of them to win...
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2. http://fourcolorshadows.blogspot.com/
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5. https://www.facebook.com/idwpublishing/
Enter your name in the contest by sending me an email at g.apeldoorn@eppo.nu
Gory details: Contest closes on the stroke of MIDNIGHT October 29th. Winners will be announced on the above URL''s on Halloween so check in each place! (Only continental U.S. residents eligible, you can enter the contest all four places, but you can only win one set of books. Void where prohibited by law. Judge's decision final. YO! Are you not feeling lucky because a Black Cat crossed your path?! You can still have a Happy Halloween: fearlessly order the books for yourself (and everyone on your Halloween gift list) at the Yoe Books site... http://yoebooks.com
Haunted Halloween
Another artist I keep hinting should be used more in Craig Yoe excellent Archive of Horror Comics and the comic one of the books is based on, Haunted Horror, is of course Mort Meskin. I know he didn't do a lot of horror stories and most of his stuff is more psychological horoor, but the few he did are all very well told and among his best work form the fifties. Apart from doing Your Dream of Dreams, he did a couple of horror fillers for Prizes Frankenstein and a few for Harvey (two of which remained unpublished and may be his best, such as the often reprinted MacBeth). The published Harvey story I am showing here is from one of the first post-code issues of Black Cat Mystery and it shows. The penultimate panel of the story will probably have features some horrific scene of revenge. In the scramble to make the deadline, the editors at Harvey couldn't think of anything but cutting the offending panel out. Wouldn't it be great to turn this into a contest and have the readers of Haunted Horror provide their own image?
And now, a word from our sponsor..
THE CHILLING ARCHIVES OF HORROR COMICS HALLOWEEN GIVE-AWAY!
Fright Fans! You have five places where to win Yoe Books/IDW's complete Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! Those are the spine tingling collections of banned comics from the 1950s include "Dick Briefer's Frankenstein", "Bob Powell's Terror", "Zombies", the brand new, "Jack Cole's Deadly Horror" and the soon to be released "Haunted Horror hardback! Enter your name each place for four chances to win!
The sponsoring blogs and Facebook page are The Horrors of it All , Four Color Shadows, The Fabulous Fifties, the Yoe Books page on Facebook, and the IDW Publishing page on Facebook. Go here to each of them to win...
1. http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com
2. http://fourcolorshadows.blogspot.com/
3. http://allthingsger.blogspot.com/
4. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Yoe-Books/157174217659112
5. https://www.facebook.com/idwpublishing/
Enter your name in the contest by sending me an email at g.apeldoorn@eppo.nu
Gory details: Contest closes on the stroke of MIDNIGHT October 29th. Winners will be announced on the above URL''s on Halloween so check in each place! (Only continental U.S. residents eligible, you can enter the contest all four places, but you can only win one set of books. Void where prohibited by law. Judge's decision final. YO! Are you not feeling lucky because a Black Cat crossed your path?! You can still have a Happy Halloween: fearlessly order the books for yourself (and everyone on your Halloween gift list) at the Yoe Books site... http://yoebooks.com
And now, a word from our sponsor..
THE CHILLING ARCHIVES OF HORROR COMICS HALLOWEEN GIVE-AWAY!
Fright Fans! You have five places where to win Yoe Books/IDW's complete Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! Those are the spine tingling collections of banned comics from the 1950s include "Dick Briefer's Frankenstein", "Bob Powell's Terror", "Zombies", the brand new, "Jack Cole's Deadly Horror" and the soon to be released "Haunted Horror hardback! Enter your name each place for four chances to win!
The sponsoring blogs and Facebook page are The Horrors of it All , Four Color Shadows, The Fabulous Fifties, the Yoe Books page on Facebook, and the IDW Publishing page on Facebook. Go here to each of them to win...
1. http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com
2. http://fourcolorshadows.blogspot.com/
3. http://allthingsger.blogspot.com/
4. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Yoe-Books/157174217659112
5. https://www.facebook.com/idwpublishing/
Enter your name in the contest by sending me an email at g.apeldoorn@eppo.nu
Gory details: Contest closes on the stroke of MIDNIGHT October 29th. Winners will be announced on the above URL''s on Halloween so check in each place! (Only continental U.S. residents eligible, you can enter the contest all four places, but you can only win one set of books. Void where prohibited by law. Judge's decision final. YO! Are you not feeling lucky because a Black Cat crossed your path?! You can still have a Happy Halloween: fearlessly order the books for yourself (and everyone on your Halloween gift list) at the Yoe Books site... http://yoebooks.com
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