Friday, September 24, 2010

Roboteria (FANTASTIC FELIX FRIDAY!)

FANTASTIC FELIX FRIDAY is a one-of-a-kind, groundbreaking internet event where eight bloggers of historical comic material join forces in support of "Felix: The Great Comic Book Tails" (IDW/Yoe! Books), a beautiful hardback, full color, art book that lovingly collects the best of brilliant Felix the Cat comic book stories from the 1940s and 50s. In an enthusiastic, united effort, classic Felix comic stories will be posted on each blog today, Friday September 24th (more details listed below after the story.) Some of the "tails" seen on the blogs are from the new book, and some are from the bloggers personal collections of comics featuring Felix. Today's wonderful AEET post comes directly from the awesome book itself:








































































































As mentioned above, each blogger is linking to the other participating blogs, creating a Felix Maelstrom of Mirth throughout the blog-o-sphere! The other participating blogs are as follows:

http://www.cartoonsnap.com/
http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com/
http://www.ramapithblog.blogspot.com/
http://www.fourcolorshadows.blogspot.com/
http://www.comicbookbin.com/Beth_Davies-Stofka.html
http://www.comicrazys.com/
http://www.theitchblog.com/

Craig Yoe edited this amazing book, which is jam-packed with rare Felix art, ephemera, animation insights, and, of course, a plethora of comic book stories by Otto Messmer, Joe Oriolo, and Jim Tyer. And Don Oriolo, the son of Joe Oriolo, and head of Felix the Cat Productions, wrote the heartfelt introduction!

Click HERE to get your copy NOW!


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Craig Yoe is an Eisner-winning, Harvey-nominated writer, cartoonist that Vice magazine called "The Indiana Jones of comics historians." Other Yoe! Books include: "Dick Briefer's Frankenstein," "Barney Google: Gambling, Horse Racing, and High-Toned Women," "Dan DeCarlos' Jetta," "The Art of Ditko," "The Golden Collection of Klassic Krazy Kool Kids Komics," "The Complete Milt Gross Comic Books and Life Story," "George Herriman's Krazy & Ignatz in Tiger Tea," "Popeye: The Great Comic Book Tales by Bud Sagendorf," and "The Great Treasury of Christmas Comic Book Story."

3 comments:

Mr. Karswell said...

NOTE: “Felix The Cat: The Great Comic Book Tales” was recently reviewed at:

Mykal’s The Big Blog of Kids’ Komics here:
http://www.bigblogcomics.com/2010/09/felix-cat-great-comic-book-tails.html

and over at Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine here:
http://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/

KW said...

I love these soft squishy drawings. That mechanical bird is really cool

Mr. Karswell said...

Haha, squishy! I love the robots so much I think I might build one of my own. Thanks for the comment KW... and thanks again to Craig Yoe for releasing a truly great book, as well as assembling this awesome octo-cross-blogger day for everyone!