The cartoon blog of Andertoons cartoonist Mark Anderson. He discusses his cartoons, cartooning, comics and, oddly enough, LEGO.
Given out by Good Humor men to children in the 1950’s (I think), you apparently checked the NY Daily Mirror to see if your card was a winner. A good way to sell some ice cream and some papers, and these are unlike any other cartoon cards I’ve seen. Go see them all over at… Continue reading NY Mirror Good Humor Comics Cards
So this morning I was checking in on my blog to make sure that everything was posting OK when I noticed this: It’s kind of hard to see, but the large cartoon shows a downward trending sales graph, and the smaller daily cartoon shows an upward trending sales graph. In the large cartoon a bald… Continue reading Graph Cartoon Character Performance
Until running across this I’d never heard of Linus the Lionhearted before, and didn’t know about his balloon in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parades (apparently Linus stopped flying in 1991). Here’s Linus talking about the then upcoming balloon: Fun!
This is dead on: See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
Nice article in the Trib today about the new Addams Family show previewing here in Chicago before heading to Broadway. I’m heartened to hear that the show is based primarily on the actual cartoons instead of the TV show or movies: Once the decision was made to focus only on the drawings, “The Addams Family”… Continue reading Addams Family Musical Not What You Think