My tentative events schedule:
October 4-5: Mid-Ohio-Con in Columbus, hoping to spend the following week at Ohio State University's comics research facility with Carolyn Kelly
October 22-26: Friends of Old Time Radio convention in Newark
We've been offline for a while — and the Fanzine Library has yet to be restored. Thanks for your patience as we rebuild!
Written by: Maggie Thompson 6/23/2008 7:56 AM
'Nuff said?
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Re: June 23, 1962 EXCELSIOR!!!
Re: June 23, 1962
EXCELSIOR!!!
Re: June 23, 1962 In hindsight, I'm glad this day happened.
In hindsight, I'm glad this day happened.
9/4/2008 10:32:31 AM by Maggie Thompson ©2008 F+W Publications
Once I began to dive into the filing drawers of clipped comic strips for The Perishers, it occurred to me that it'd be fun to remind people of other strips. Rog Bollen created Catfish, Funny Business, and Animal Crackers; he began Animal Crackers in 1967. While there have been a couple of collections of the strip (which he worked on until 1994) in the past, I don't think these from 1969 were included.
9/3/2008 12:28:03 PM by Maggie Thompson ©2008 F+W Publications
I managed to track down a few samples of the strip -- though, oddly, I have no idea where the rest of my strips are. As I recall, they were an odd size and didn't fit in the check file where we kept most of our clipped strips. But I digress. I was a little dismayed to find that individual strips here and there don't sufficiently convey the charm and interpersonal (and interspecies) relationships embodied in the series. These are from July 1969.