Nemo Post Fix by Request! ...happily.

The internet is a wonderful place.  Don't let anyone tell you different.

The internet is communication and information sharing at a level which has NEVER before existed.  EVER!

This post goes out as a lesson to all of you bloggers out there (I love you one and all for having something to say and a place to say it!) who may think you're sometimes posting in a vacuum.

Today, Easter, April 20, 2014 I received a comment from a reader (on this blog which I have neglected for a good while) who sang praise for my posting of ""Nemo: the Classic Comics Library" and was happy that he could add the scans to his archive as well.  

I had no idea anyone was reading those.

Then he pointed out that on August 18, 2010(!) I had missed a few pages and forgot to post them.

Amazing.

The internet works.

Sometimes I think it's just me.

Good to know.

Here are those pages.  From "Nemo: the Classic Comics Library" issue #14.  Chapters 11 and 12 of the unpublished autobiography of Allen Saunders, "Playwrite for Paper Actors".

With pleasure and thanks to Mr. Carlos Maria Federici: comics fan extraordinaire!

Happy reading.

Talk to you soon.

Gene Ahern - Nemo Annual #1 - part 6 and final!

Here it is, the 6th and final chapter of "Nemo: the Classic Comics Library"'s look at the great screwball comics in their Annual #1 (and only) from 1985.

Bill Holman, Milt Gross, Dr. Seuss...they've all been covered here and a fitting closing chapter is the one focusing on Gene Aherns awesomely screwball strips, "The Nut Brothers" and "The Squirrel Cage".

This is some fun stuff and it really feels like good Sunday reading.

Enjoy!

Talk to you soon.

Dr. Seuss's Comic Strip Work - Nemo Annual part 5

"Nemo: the Classic Comic Library" Annual #1 (and only) continues to brighten Sunday Funnies with chapter all about the oft overlooked comic strip work of the talented Ted Geisel...or best known to all of us as Dr. Seuss.

If you think his kids' books are whimsical or magical...take a gander at how it all spings from his screwball sense of humor.

Dig in, Kiddoes!!

Talk to you soon!

George Swanson's "Salesman Sam - Nemo Anual part 4

I know, you probably thought I fell off the edge of the earth with the scarcity of blog posts this week. Well, I did. But I successfully fought all the sea-monsters and have returned victorious in time to wish you all a Happy Easter Sunday and to ask, "Is Spring EVER GONNA GET HERE???"! Geez I'm sick of grey skies. Must be some kind of record here in sunny southern California to have winter last from November on in April. This is how the REST of the country lives, not us here in the promised land!

Oh well. Nothing I can do about it but bring a little Spring sunshine your way with more of "Nemo: the Classic Comics Library" Annual #1 (and only) from 1985 and their tribute to the screwball comics.

Part 4 brings us a relatively little remembered strip called "Salesman Sam" by the equally overlooked George Swanson.

Read on, Kiddoes...I'm sure you'll dig it!

Talk to you soon.

It's good to be back.

Milt Gross - Nemo Annual - Sunday Funnies

Happy Sunday to you all! Snuggle back under those covers for some comic strip fun as I continue sharing "Nemo: the Classic Comics Library" and it's one and only annual, spotlighting the tradition of screw-ball comics!

This chapter focuses on the screwy Milt Gross. Gross and Bill Holman are the core progenitors of this genre of comics and of the two I find Gross to be the tastiest eye candy.

I'll give thanks to all the folks who worked on Nemo back in the day as always, and let them do the real talking. Plenty of samples of "Nize Baby", "Dave's Delicatessen" and "Count Screwloose of Tooloose", too.

Get ready to giggle yerelf silly.

Talk to you soon.

Rube Goldberg - Nemo Annual #1 - part 2

My sharing of the 1985, "Nemo: the Classic Comics Library" Annual #1 (and only) continues, here at "Sunday Funnies".

The Annual focused on the great screw-ball comics of the past, a genre that's often passed over, and you'll wonder why more and more as, this chapter they focus on the work of the legendary Rube Goldberg.

Most folks who know of Goldberg know him for the wacky, needlessly complicated inventions he devised in comic form, but Rube was a cartoonist who produced for a long time, many different strips in many different formats.

Read on and enjoy and remember what I've said before...The National Cartoonists Society didn't name their highest award "The Rueben" after him for nothin'!

Talk to you soon.

Nemo Returns!!

Sunday Funnies, Kiddoes and the return of my sharing of "Nemo: the Classic Comics Library"! After the first years run of this great magazine published by Richard Marschall and the good folks at Fantagraphics, they ambitiously published an annual. Still all in black & white, but printhed in a BIG 11x17 format. They never published a second annual, but this first was impressive. Focusing on the "Screw-Ball" comics that were so popular in the 1920's and 30's, it spotlighted the works of Milt Gross, Bill Holman, Rube Goldberg and the seldom-seen comic work of Dr. Seuss! Here's the Editorial, forwarding chapter and a chapter on Holman's "Smokey Stover" and "Spooky". Enjoy!

Talk to you soon.