Segar and Thimble Theater are most famous for introducing Popeye, but before the sailor man took over the strip, the heroes were Castor Oyl and Ham Gravy, his sister Olive’s boyfriend, here seen stealing an especially useless horse.
Frank Stack is probably most well-known today for illustrating much of Harvey Pekar’s American Splendor and Pekar and his wife Joyce Brabner’s graphic novel Our Cancer Year. He has been a cartoonist in the underground scene for decades, ever since he befriended the much more well-known Gilbert Shleton (creator of The...
Mark Alan Stamaty’s MacDoodle Street ran in the Village Voice for a number of years. The continuing story of beleaguered poet Malcolm Frazzle and his journey from the Cafe Fizz as seen above to dishwashing nirvana at the behest of a cow goddess can be read in the full collection, which I highly recommend. The best thing about...