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It's NEW COMICS Wednesday. A new comic strip or page by me will appear every Wednesday at least for the next month or so. Here we have the third MOLLY & GUS strip.

Click here to read it.


 
Posted By Art Baxter
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This HENRY cartoon was drawn by his creator Carl Anderson between 1932 and 1934 for the SATURDAY EVENING POST. Look for a new HENRY cartoon every Monday.

Find out more about HENRY here.


 
Posted By Art Baxter

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I'm starting a new weekly feature: NEW COMICS Wednesday. A new comic strip or page by me will appear every Wednesday at least for the next month or so. Here we have the second MOLLY & GUS strip.

Click here to read it.


 
Posted By Art Baxter

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Finally, some new content!

This was nothing but a HENRY Tribute blog for over a month.

Click here to read this new MOLLY & GUS comic.

WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR IDEAS? Deptment:
I wanted to do a strip for the Philadelphia CITY PAPER "Comics Issue" but I was dry for ideas. I had drawn doodle sketches of a white dog with an eyepatch and a large breasted gap tooth girl in my sketchbook about the same time I read a rant by my PHILLY COMIX JAM pal, Ian Harker, concerning "9-11" over at the COMICS JOURNAL MESSAGEBOARD.

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This are character sketches ripped out pretty quickly. Just doodles.

I wanted to do something I had never done before to stretch myself. Talking animals can get away with more crap than humans and the girl would attract attention. I still had "spectacular boobage" on the brain from the previous Monday night's discussion of "spectacular boobage" at the PHILLY COMIX JAM meeting. I had never worked with either type of character before nor anything as overtly political. So I rewrote Ian's rant, mixed everything together and added a punch line directly lifted from a Steve Ditko MR. A comic. The names "Molly" and "Gus" came out of thin air and seemed to suit them. The former has soft consonants and the latter hard. The sketch book drawings and final art were drawn with the same tools: fountain pens and a brush pen. With one idea down I got five more ideas for strips. My brain juices were flowing again.

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Here are the pencils for the first panel with the original Harker rant.

Look for another one tomorrow on NEW COMIC WEDNESDAY!


 
Posted By Art Baxter

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This HENRY cartoon was drawn by his creator Carl Anderson between 1932 and 1934 for the SATURDAY EVENING POST. Look for a new HENRY cartoon every Monday.

Find out more about HENRY here.


 
Posted By Art Baxter

henry-33

This HENRY cartoon was drawn by his creator Carl Anderson between 1932 and 1934 for the SATURDAY EVENING POST. Look for a new HENRY cartoon every Monday.

Find out more about HENRY here.


 
Posted By Art Baxter

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This HENRY cartoon was drawn by his creator Carl Anderson between 1932 and 1934 for the SATURDAY EVENING POST. Look for a new HENRY cartoon every Monday.

Find out more about HENRY here.


 
Posted By Art Baxter

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This HENRY cartoon was drawn by his creator Carl Anderson between 1932 and 1934 for the SATURDAY EVENING POST. Look for a new HENRY cartoon every Monday.

Find out more about HENRY here.


 
Posted By Art Baxter

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This HENRY cartoon was drawn by his creator Carl Anderson between 1932 and 1934 for the SATURDAY EVENING POST. Look for a new HENRY cartoon every Monday.

Find out more about HENRY here.


 
Posted By Art Baxter

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This HENRY cartoon was drawn by his creator Carl Anderson between 1932 and 1934 for the SATURDAY EVENING POST. Look for a new HENRY cartoon every Monday.

Find out more about HENRY here.


 
Posted By Art Baxter

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This HENRY cartoon was drawn by his creator Carl Anderson between 1932 and 1934 for the SATURDAY EVENING POST. Look for a new HENRY cartoon every Monday.

Find out more about HENRY here.


 
Posted By Art Baxter

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What you see before you is not some fairyland or storybook paradise but the view from my roof of nearby backyards. We are looking approximately North by Northeast. If you scroll back to the drawing of Thursday, June 5, you may picture me on the upper left side of the drawing with my back against the dormer, scribbling away. I dare say that nobody walked by and asked me what I was drawing or why I was drawing it. No one yelled out the window "what the hell are you doing on the roof?!?" either. This drawing was done with the usual suspects.

Ahhh. It's good to be back!

Click here to see this drawing bigger.


 
Posted By Art Baxter

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This HENRY cartoon was drawn by his creator Carl Anderson between 1932 and 1934 for the SATURDAY EVENING POST. Look for a new HENRY cartoon every Monday.

Find out more about HENRY here.


 
Posted By Art Baxter

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LANSDOWNE SOFA CINEMA: Retro Animation Showcase
Hosted by Art Baxter
Saturday, June 28, 2008 - 6:45pm & 8:45pm
Lansdowne Baptist Church
LaCrosse and Lansdowne Avenues, Lansdowne PA
Tickets are $5

Lansdowne Sofa Cinema presents a Retro Animation Showcase, classic cartoons from the 30s - 60s, full of fun for the family (and subtle social commentary).  Cartoonist Art Baxter will play host (Hey, that's me!). Shows are at The Lansdowne Baptist Church, LaCrosse and Lansdowne Avenues, in beautiful downtown Lansdowne. Showtimes 6:45pm (more for the kids) & 8:45pm (more for grown-ups). Tickets are $5.

House Cleaning Blues featuring Betty Boop & Grampy
Directed by Dave Fleicher - Paramount Pictures
B&W - 1937

Balloonland
Directed by Ub Iwerks
Cinecolor - 1935

Get Rich Quick Porky featuring Porky Pig
Directed by Robert Clampett - Warner Brothers
B&W - 1937

The Paneless Window Washer - featuring Popeye
Directed by Dave Fleicher - Paramount Pictures
B&W - 1937

At the Hollywood Bowl - featuring Tom & Jerry
Directed by William Hanna & Joseph Barbera - MGM
Technicolor - 1950

Touché Pussycat featuring Tom & Jerry
Directed by William Hanna & Joseph Barbera - MGM
Technicolor - 1954

High Diving Hare featuring Bugs Bunny & Yosemite Sam
Directed by I. (Fritz) Freleng - Looney Tunes - Warner Brothers
Technicolor - 1949

Fast and Furry-ous featuring Road Runner & Wyle E Coyote
Directed by Chuck Jones - Warner Brothers
Technicolor - 1949

Rocky & Bullwinkle - Season 1, Episode 3
Jet Fuel Formula: Episode 5 "Thr Scrooched Moose" w/ Gidney & Cloyd the Moon Men
Fractured Fairy Tales: The Enchanted Fish
Color - 1959

The Adult program includes these additional cartoons:

Confidence featuring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
Directed by Ub Iwerks - Lantz/Universal
B&W - 1933

Hollywood Bowl
Directed by Elmer Perkins - Lantz/Universal
Technicolor - 1938

Jungle Jitters
Directed by Friz Freleng - Merrie Melodies - Warner Brothers
Technicolor - 1938

Rabbit of Seville featuring Bugs Bunny & Elmer Fudd
Directed by Chuck Jones - Looney Tunes - Warner Brothers
Technicolor - 1950

Speedy Gonzales featuring Speedy & Sylvester
Directed by I. (Fritz) Freleng - Merrie Melodies - Warner Brothers
Technicolor - 1955

If you are within the sight of my blog and in the greater Philadelphia area. C'mon out and say hello!

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Oswald the Lucky Rabbit wonders why FDR is not in his wheelchair

 
Posted By Art Baxter

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I feel your pain, pal!

Ugh!

I've had a pretty anemic posting schedule lately. Sorry to all of you who continue to drop by looking for new postings.

I've been busy with major home repair, the PHILLY COMIX JAM and its blog and life in general. The dust is starting to settlle. Stuff is on the way next week including new sketchbook pages.

 

 

 
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