Comics and Fun at super*Market Animator Show

Had a great time this weekend at the super*Market comic book show! Got to see a lot of friends and meet a lot of cool people!


Ted Seko and Javier Hernandez had piles of their work for sale.


My table was right next to awesome painter, cartoonist and storyboard artist Pete Von Sholly. During the slow parts I got the chance to chat with him and look at his eye-poppingly beautiful paintings!


I'm glad I got to see Louie Del Carmen...I haven't seen him since he went over to Dreamworks.


---and Dan Goodsell's table was right across from me! He's the co-author of one of my favorite books: "Krazy Kids' Food," the curator of The Imaginary World's Ray Patin Exhibit and the creator of Mr. Toast. And a really nice guy!


That's me muggin' for the camera. Thanks to Jessica Gao for taking this photo and for putting on a really fun show!

Also (not pictured)... had a chance to catch up with Erik Wiese and Jessica Chaffin from The Mighty B, Stuart Ng, Sean Kreiner, and Anson Jew. I got to meet Jerry Beck and Scott Shaw, and of course I got to meet a lot of rabid comics fans! See you at the next one!

Funny pictures-Oops!!!

Humor pictures-One of them?

Older Work

Humor photos-Amazing Tree-way

Shark Costume

Adult humor pictures-Salon lure!

Animal humor-Kitty kiss

Humor pictures-Stress!!!!

Humor photos-Apple fetish!!

Funny pictures-Overload!!!!

Humor photos-Actually looking at?

Animal humor-Kitty embrace

Count Screwloose vs. Harry the Hoople Snake! Rare 1948 Comic Book Scans from Milt Gross

Here's another never-been-reprinted, scarcely-seen cartoon blast of brilliance from that Napoleon of nonsense, MILT GROSS! (Applause!!!)

This frenetic five-pager from 1948 was hidden in the back of issue #14 of ACG Comics "The Kilroys," which is otherwise just a run-of-the-mill teen comedy Archie-wanna-be. I gotta thank Eddie Trigueros for turning me on to this book. He was even nice enough to let me scan it, but like a doofus, I lost all the scans when I was resizing the images in Photoshop.

So I had to find the comic on eBay, and rescan my own copy. Good news is that these oddball funnybooks can be gotten online for not too much dough! I always try to find these golden-age cartoon and funny-animal comics in the worst condition possible. As long as they're readable, that's fine by me! I'd rather get four or five old crumbling comics for five bucks each than just one that's in more decent shape. Anyway, here are a few preview panels to get you warmed up...

There's no explanation for Harry the Hoople-Snake. He is what he is. It's a cartoon!

So after escaping the nuthouse, Count Screwloose ends up as a contestant on a radio quiz show...

What great crowds! Every face is hideously different. A real horror show for our hero.

WHAPPO! Man, I love the energy in this drawing below --

As usual, Count Screwloose escapes back IN to the Balmycrest Booby-Hatch where life is not so crazy!

The WHOLE five-page story is available to click on and download below.

Wow! The crowd LOVES it!

Just CLICK on each of the images below and a nice BIG comic book scan page will open in a new window. Enjoy!

Just CLICK on each of the images below and a nice BIG comic book scan page will open in a new window.

Fun + anarchy + cartooning genius = Milt Gross

A few months ago I posted a fantastic seven-page Count Screwloose comedy epic from ACG's Kilroys #5. Just CLICK below on the goofy dude smoking a mouthfull of cigars to jump over and see that delicious set of vintage comic book scans!

John K. wrote a couple posts that really sum up all that is wonderful about Milt Gross. Check out his insightful and heartfelt articles on Milt Gross HERE: all kinds of stuff: WOW. MILT GROSS. style, observation, sincerity, humanity
...and HERE: all kinds of stuff: Milt Gross comics, drawing with every principle EXCEPT construction

And the Asifa-Hollywood Animation Archive has some super scans of Milt Gross newspaper comics like Count Screwloose and Dave's delicatessen HERE.
UPDATE: There are a LOT more comic book scans to look at and download! Click HERE

Tick burrowing into skin

Funny pictures-Good punch!!!!