Passing Over The Scans

Saturday Leftover Day.

Like Craig Yoe I am very much interested in cartoons and stories that show or spoof Modern Art.He devoted three of his earliest reprint books to it, called Modern Arf, But still I come across new ones every few months. Here is an Intellectual Amos story by Quality's Andre Lablanc. I never saw a lot of comic pages by him, just his incredible covers. I never knw he was one of the back-up fillers used in the first post war Spirit sections. I have been scanning my huge collection of sections for the Digital Comic Book Museum, where you can go to see most of my scans as well as plenty of others. They are interesting not only for The SPirit, but also for Klaus Nordling's The Barker and the many versions of Mr. Mystic. Remember, Eisner did more then ten years of these, so that's about 500 episodes of the Spirit as well as eight more pages by others.

Not So Serious Art

Saturday Leftover Day.

Craig Yoe, my cowriter and editor on Behaving Madly, first came to my attention with his ARF series of books. Like the immense and eclectic collection in his home, these books are a mixed bag f intersting ilustrations, strips and comic book pages. One of the most interesting things he collected were the many samples of comic books and newspaper strip artists doing gags about modert art. Usually the point of the gag was that the artists were just throwing some paint unto the cnavas or that kids or even monkeys could do it just as well. An opinion that has remained til this day, even though the real modern art movement is almost 100 years old now. So whenever I am clipping and scanning and I come across one of the art related gags, I make a copy for Craig and send it to him. I have not kept them all in my own files, but her are some I could find.