The Deadly Hands of Les McClaine

NICE. I’ve never seen this cartoonist’s work before. It’s beautiful. I have got to get a better handle on what’s going on in Europe these days.

unatheblade:

Atlas y Axis by the amazing Spanish cartoonist Pau. LOOK AT THOSE COLORS!!! 

Looking at stuff like this always makes me feel a sort of nostalgic agony— the comics pages today are filled with scratchy art from once-great cartoonists, bland second-and-third generation rehashes and overly-simple pun-based laziness.

But this! These lines are gorgeous. Just forty-odd years ago, this is what cartooning looked like. It’s a tragedy.

drawnblog:

Marmaduke, like a lot of classic comic strips, gets a bad rap these days as an all-too-easy punchline (and sure, the recent movie didn’t help) for unfunny comics, which always strikes me as a bit unfair. Because isn’t it great that today’s world of comics has enough material to cater to such a variety of tastes? Marmaduke-lovers included. 

Regardless, I  don’t think I had ever seen the strip’s earlier incarnations. Its bold clean lines barely resemble the loose scribbly Great Dane we know today.

cartoonretro:

Very appealing simplicity in Brad Anderson’s early Marmaduke strips.