The Ghost who Blogs

art by Sy Barry

Read full Phantom (and Mandrake the Magician!) stories at Falkonthewildside!
Also- check this out: the online Phantom encyclopedia.

Little Nemo inducted into National Film Registry

Full list of films added to the registry here.

Silly Symphony

Rob Liefeld, 1991

That Dennis Miller sure knows his comics!
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3 of 200

Mike Lynch posted scans from the "Dick Tracy: The Art of Chester Gould" exhibition catalogue which features 200 of Dick Tracy's foes and friends.

Old College Days

Here's a sampling of images from the Pratt Library's Flickr photostream:

Main Building

Charles Pratt, the Founder

Pratt Institute Football team

Pratt's first art faculty

(Thanks, Jordan!)

Where the Woodbine Twineth

More Alfred Hitchcock Hour here.
Wiki here.
(Thanks for the find, Em!)

E.H. Shepard drawings

"...Christopher Robin finished the mouthful he was eating and said carelessly: 'I saw a Heffalump to-day, Piglet.'"

There's a great collection of the original Winnie the Pooh drawings over at BibliOdyssey.

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

David Stone Martin

Check out Today's Inspiration's entries on David Stone Martin-
Modernism meets Traditionalism
Early Days
For the Record
"...unusual pictures, vitalized by many strange textures"
"Bending a wire"

Full gallery of Martin's work here.

Dr. No likenesses

Mitchell Hooks remembers his art direction for the first James Bond movie poster.

"Yeah, it's actually kind of funny: I don't think they had any idea at the time just what a valuable property they had. They actually said to me, 'Don't worry too much about likenesses on this one -- this just has a couple of unknown actors [Sean Connery and Ursula Andress] from England in it' !"

More from Mitch at Today's Inspiration- a blog that really lives up to its name.

Slumberland titles

Visit Meeting McCay for more!

Fantastic

Check out 16 covers of the 25 issues of the pulp magazine Fantastic Story here.

The timeless New Yorker minute

More than 100 years old, Maurice Ketten's satirical "'Hurry Up' New Yorker" proves that the more things change, the more they stay the same- even in the Big Apple. Read more here.

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The way we were...

Check out Square America for all of your vintage photograph needs!

The Good Soldier Švejk

Josef Lada's illustrations for the World War I novel "The Good Soldier Švejk" are collected here. Over 50 illustrations are featured which is "less than one third of the line drawings supplied by Lada."

Also, be sure to check out the blog that these illustrations were scanned for, BibliOdyssey, which collects vintage book illustrations.

update 08.03.08- I just realized I've had a 1926 edition of this book in German for the past several years! Thank you, Strand dollar rack!

Now...which of these belong to you...already?

Mystery Tales #40, the comic book from last night's episode of 'Lost,' featured some of Steve Ditko's first work for Atlas Comics (Marvel's precursor).

The titles of stories in this anthology comic fit into 'Lost' too perfectly-
"The Hidden Land!"
"The Voice of Warning!"
"The Travelers""Crossroads of Destiny!"
"Sammy's Secret!"
"The Silent Stranger"
"March Has 32 Days"

In an early 'Lost' episode, Locke describes the rules of backgammon with a statement that doubles as his world view- "One side is light, and one side is dark." I'm sure Ditko would appreciate that sentiment.

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Update 05.27.08- Page by page scans and analysis of the issue are now available at Mysterytales40.com.

The Red Future

Check out more government sponsored and approved illustrations from 1950s Soviet science fiction books here.

De L'Heureuse Influence de L'Alcoolisme dans les Arts

(click to enlarge)

cartoon by Henri Avelot from Le Rire
by kind permission of The Virtual Absinthe Museum

How very European

Eastern European matchbox labels from 1950s and 60s here and here.