That's All, Folks!

 

Well, that's it.  I can officially retire from comic book collecting, because I did it.  I FUCKIN DID IT:

I finally completed my set of  Air Pirates Funnies.

Yes, I know about Dan O'Neill's Comics and Stories, and the Tortoise and the Hare, and Dirty Duck, and the Air Pirates newspaper, but I don't care. Like Ash Katchum, I caught them all.  

Stay tuned for this blog's new focus:  Collecting Loungefly backpacks.

Gross Anatomy

 

Some (relatively) work-safe pages from 1976's Bicentennial Gross-Outs:

That's about all I want to post, follow the link for the unforgettable conclusion.

 Tribute to Gary Hallgren of the Air Pirates

Kazoo 2

 

Original Art For Mystery Mini-Comic Kazoo #2

Ol' Yeller

 

Yellow Dog Comix #24:  Mickey Raton Visit The Disneelund

Toilet Humor

 

 

Mousetrapped is a cool and inoffensive use of Public Domain Mouse

(Unlike Steamboat Willie over here).

Sweetheart of the Rodeo

 

Ad page from Paper Rodeo

Squeak Previews

 

Mitch Lohmeier's funny animal true crime epic Michael Mouse, starring his own totally unique and original characters, is now available to order through Previews.

Go get it, ya mugs!

Hack Slash

 

The great Rick Griffin in the pages of Zap

The Lonesome Death Of Scrooge McFowl

 

From "Duck Death" a Wraith story by Michael T. Gilbert

Song For Junior

 

The Mickey Mouse Jr. Story from Gothic Blimp Works #1

by Joel Beck

Some Trip!

 

Moscoso Comix #1

Prometheus Unbound

Images from Promethean Enterprises (1969) 

Gram Crackers

 

I know Instagram is terrible anymore, but sometimes you stike gold:

Like these Mickeys from Jim H Madison

or new Al Columbia:

Pics Or It Didn't Happen

 

I'm reading Dirty Pictures right now and the thing that leaps out at me is how young everybody was.

When I first became aware of Crumb and the gang it was the early 90's, post-Raw post-Weirdo, and all of these guys had been pretty much accepted by the mainstream and entering elder statesmen territory. I think I mentioned it on here before, but the Rick Griffin obituary in Surfer magazine was my first introduction to the world of comix, and by then Zap was firmly in Boomer-nostalgialand.  It's fun to read about all these legends as scrappy young fanzine kids, all trying to emulate their heroes John Stanley, Carl Barks, and The Usual Gang of Idiots.

I'm not looking forward to the inevitable personality clashes and infighting, but for now it's a really interesting look back, well worth a read.

Crashtastic

 

Finally got my mitts on a copy of Crashpad by Gary Panter:

So far so groovy; I'm reading it one strip at a time, stopping whenever I get to a signature.  Panter is one of the all-time greats.

A+ Recommendation

Utopian Vision

 

Man From Utopia by Rick Griffin

Mickey Mouse Yesterday

 

Mickey Mouse Today!  by Joel Beck

from Yellow Dog #1

These Mystic Eyes

I love everything about this Rick Griffin surfing strip

But I love the little Mickey guys in the next-to-last panel most of all.