Toon Town Tidbits 2(sday)
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Joe Wos and Alice in Wonderland; Dan O’Neill and The Air Pirates; Krazy Kat and Comics Kingdom; The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and vertical comics; Garry Trudeau, Doonesbury, and Trump; Spongebob Squarepants and the United States Postal Service.
Let’s kick this off with a couple Kickstarters.
Chère Noble and Joe Wos are teaming up to create a one-of-a-kind book!
Drawing inspiration from Walt Disney’s early Alice cartoons — where a live-action actress explored an animated world — Chère brings her stunning portrayal of Alice into Joe’s colorful, vibrant, and comical Wonderland.
Joe (MazeToons) Wos has a project in the works adapting Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.
The pages pair Joe’s illustrations with selected poems by Lewis Carroll, featuring beloved Wonderland residents like the White Rabbit, Mad Hatter, Queen of Hearts, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Jabberwocky, and many more. The book includes 20 captivating images of Chère as Alice, seamlessly woven into the illustrated world of Wonderland alongside Carroll’s timeless poetry.
While Chère Noble is Alice in Wonderland is just getting (kick)started Mousetrap has been fully funded.
MOUSETRAP: The Air Pirates War Against Disney is a documentary that follows a group of underground cartoonists, led by the audacious Dan O’Neill, in their quest for creative freedom and the right to parody – igniting one of the most incendiary legal battles in American cultural history.
MOUSETRAP: The Air Pirates War Against Disney is told through verité footage, interviews, rare archival material, and 2D animation rooted in underground comix aesthetics.
So much more information at MOUSETRAP: The Air Pirates War Against Disney.
Errata in The End
Comics Kingdom reached the end of the Krazy Kat daily run for their daily showing of “favorites” and has gone back to (near) the beginning of their archives which begins in 1922 (not 1936 as claimed above) – for some reason starting with July 1922 dailies instead of January 2, 1922.
Also for historical records sake we will note that Krazy Kat dailies ended on June 3, 1944 and that the Sundays continued until June 25, 1944. The Comics Kingdom archives carries the last three Sundays but dates them June 5-7, 1944.
Vertical Comics
This past weekend saw a trilogy of vertical comics from a pair of newspapers.
From The Washington Post came Doctors said I was ‘too young’ to be seriously ill. I had Stage 4 cancer. by Drea Cornejo, illustrated by Lara Antal.
The Los Angeles Times presented Op-Comic: An alligator? In Los Angeles? In this economy? by Ivan Ehlers.
After a nearly ten month hiatus Beatrix Lockwood and Maya Scarpa have returned with new Shifts strips at The Washington Post: Living in a lighthouse among whales, dolphins and a beagle. Is this a one-off? Has Shifts returned on a regular schedule? Will Shifts now appear occasionally? ???
Updating the Doonesbury and Trump Show
Welcome to the final instalment of my look into how Garry Trudeau has covered Donald Trump since first introducing him to Doonesbury in 1987. In this concluding post, I want to look at how Trump’s dominance of the political moment presents new challenges to satirists, and how those challenges have shaped Trudeau’s work in the decade since Trump became the central figure in American politics.
After a three month break Paul Hébert updates his look at the four decade long Doonesbury-Trump spectacle with “Doesn’t Satire Have to Be Funny?”: Concluding Notes on Doonesbury in the Time of Monsters.
Spongebob Stamps Soon
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea and is coming to a mailbox near you? SpongeBob SquarePants, the star of the U.S. Postal Service’s newest postage stamps.
The beloved Nickelodeon cartoon is the subject of a sheet of Forever stamps USPS will release on August 1 in a ceremony in Times Square, and wouldn’t you know it, SpongeBob is a perfect fit. Only the form of a square-shaped cartoon character perfectly matches the function of a square postage stamp the way SpongeBob does.
From Fast Company:
The SpongeBob SquarePants stamps were designed by USPS art director Greg Breeding using artwork provided by Nickelodeon. They come in four different designs, two of which cleverly show only SpongeBob’s smiling face filling out the entire stamp. The other stamps feature SpongeBob with other characters from the show, including Patrick the pink starfish, Sandy the squirrel, Mr. Krabs, and Squidward.
Spongebob and other new U.S. Stamps at the USPS store.
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