"Arnold" Sundays 2

Conchy - Week of August 9, 1976

"Arnold" Sundays 1

In addition to Conchy, I received a stack of Arnold Sunday strips. I figured I'd post them on this blog every Saturday. So be sure to read this blog every weekend.

Hymie

Kevin McCormick's Arnold never made much of a splash, but it did make an impression with many people who had the strip in their comics section.

Back in the '80s Mike Kazaleh drew this parody, as part of a fake comics page he did where he poked fun at the strips that was running in his paper at the time. I thought it was hilarious, so with his permission I'm posting it here.

See my interview with creator Kevin McCormick here.

Conchy - Week of August 2, 1976

So I thought I do this. I came into possession a bunch of Conchy comic strips by James Childress. I decided that, every Sunday, I'm going to post one week's worth of the strip. So be sure to check back often.

These are the week of August 2, 1976

(this cartoon ran exactly one month after the bicentennial)

Katrina and Tofu

New page up

The Gutsy Frog

And here's another episode of The Gutsy Frog. This is actually a second episode. Parts of the animation is really unusual here; the first couple of episodes were laid out by a different group of artists than the ones normally used in the rest of the run.



Director: Eiji Okabe
Animation Directors: Osamu Kobayashi, Tsutomu Shibayama
Scenario: Haruya Yamazaki
Storyboards: Noboru Ishigura
Key Animation/Layouts: Kazumi Shimada, Michiko Takahashi
Animation/Inbetweens: Kyoko Harada, Tamie Yuuki, Masayuki Oozeki