The Cartoonist

Saturday, December 20, 2003

Zig Zag. 5 pages with linedrawings of Gerrit T. Rietveld furniture. Nice. 4:14:44 PM     |

White Teeth. A toothpaste collection. From 1800 until now. Amazing. 3:31:47 PM     |

Of Ducks and Men of Steel. Here's Gene Colan's Virtual Studio. 2:57:37 PM     |

Friday, December 19, 2003

The Expedition to the Unknown Amerika. As told by Lewis and Clark. As being finally translated into German by Friedhelm Rathjen, following the original text. This is fantastic. All my German readers, surf over to 2001 and get the book. Now. Before it's sold out: Die Expedition ins unbekannte Amerika. Arno Schmidt liebte ihr "permanentes Gemisch aus Windespfeifen & Grasgewischel; das, wer es einmal vernommen hat, nicht mehr missen möchte", rühmte sie sogar als "ein Buch wie Homer!" und erwähnt sie an zahlreichen Stellen in Zettels Traum. Friedhelm Rathjen hat aus der riesigen Textmasse eine umfangreiche Auswahl getroffen und berichtet in seinem Nachwort anschaulich über die abenteuerliche Geschichte der Expedition. Die Expedition ins unbekannte Amerika. Ein Titel der Reihe der Haidnischen Alterthümer. 11:57:13 PM     |

The Prisoner. Fab: The Edwin C. Bolles Collection - A digital archive on the history and topography of London. Via the unbelievable Kosmonautentraum. Thank you, Niels! 9:34:02 PM     |

The Best Version Ever. Sweet Jane as performed by the Cowboy Junkies. 9:15:38 PM     |

Twanng. Keef's homepage. Thank goodness he's not a 'Sir Keef' yet. 8:59:55 PM     |

No 221b Baker Street, London. A birdseye view of a legendary apartment. Fantastic. Brilliant. Great. Also downloadable as a HiRes version in 300dpi. Thanks to Quarsan for the link. 3:23:34 PM     |

I've had enough. Remember? The hard drive problems of my eMac? Not only that, this stupid Lemon also started developing serious video board problems - flickering screen, etc. Getting it repaired would have cost me in the region of £350, if not more. So I thought: "Mhm, it's Christmas and I've managed to earn some money while in Brussels." A new one, running with 1Ghz, costs £640. Mhm again. Double-mhm. The machine was delivered last night at 21:45 (!) and came equipped with the delightful Panther OS. Which is fantastic. In fact, Panther is überfantastic. It's great. And even Radio runs without any problems. I'm a happy 1Ghz boy now. Oh, how wonderful life can be. 3:00:00 PM     |

Thursday, December 18, 2003

"rec"Just summing up the last three entries... 2:44:13 PM     |

Strange Spices. Riverbend of Baghdad Burning fame is now posting Iraq Recipes. Yum. I've got to try those. Fab. 2:41:54 PM     |

Dainty, Delicate & Devious Duck Designs. Rare Carl Barks material. Fab. Found via the kind & knowledgeable Koewi. 2:19:28 PM     |

Wow Indeed. Check out OurType. Via coudal. Fab. 1:26:03 PM     |

Death in Plaster. A gallery of around 100 death masks of the famous and not so famous. 11:25:58 AM     |

CrashBangWallop. The Museum of accidents. Via thingsmagazine. 11:17:31 AM     |

An American Variety. Another great exhibition: Vaudeville. Thanks to Patrícia of retrolounge. From the early 1880s to the end of the 1920s vaudeville was the most popular form of live entertainment in the United States. A vaudeville show was a succession of seven to ten live stage acts, the "bill," which built to a climax with the performance of its top star, the "headliner." A vaudeville bill always included comedians and musicians, but might have included dancers, acrobats, trained animals, magicians, and novelty performers as well. Its form and content had been shaped by a wide range of 19th century diversions, including minstrel shows, the circus, medicine shows, traveling repertoire companies, curio museums, wild west shows, chautauquas, and British Music Hall. 7:41:32 AM     |

Wednesday, December 17, 2003

Vintage Posters. At francofolie. Great. Via Coudal Partners. 3:07:49 PM     |

That was quick. A 'Captured Saddam' Action Figure. Sigh. 2:05:32 PM     |

Tuesday, December 16, 2003

Dinky Toys Time. Phew. I finally managed to update my Corgi Toys/Dinky Toys website - added a few more spreads of Dinky catalog 10 and the reprint cover of Dinky Toys No 1. Woohoo. 2:13:52 PM     |

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Automating the Wrong Things. Brilliant entry at teledyn about the typographic chaos we're in. Just as we powerpointed every argument into a sales pitch , we've reduced almost all our most earnest writing to extended ransom-notes, a hoary hodge podge of artless typography, obsessed with contextually agnostic but technically correct spelling, and proper active-voice business grammar that we were all taught to ape back in grade 5. 9:43:05 AM     |

Still in a Ranting Mood. [A repeat.] Here are The Clash. 12:04:32 AM     |

Monday, December 15, 2003

BTW. I've just heard that Harald Schmidt has resigned from his TV Late Night Shows. So what? Spiegel, calm down. Especially all of your useless online journalists. You're worse than the Bild-Zeitung (Ja, Steuern runter! So viel kriegen sie jetzt mehr!). Who's Harald Schmidt anyway? German Humour? It's just a TV Show. Just a TV Show, for God's sake! Armes Deutschland. Ich geh jetzt wieder Explosiv gucken auf RTL. Und gräm mich, daß Bohlen wieder mal bestohlen wurde. So much for German Humour. God, they're worse than the Tabloids here in the Uk. The Cartoonist loves ranting about Germany. And Idiot Journalists. 11:23:20 PM     |

Trappist Beers. That's what they do to you. They make you feel dizzy. Thanks to Philippe. 9:14:15 PM     |

Mr Duck in his 313. Good source for all Duck-related items is Duckburg.de. They even have some Barks lithographies (hint to Koewi!) on offer. And I've still got Winterfreuden (Snow Fun) hanging in my living room. Great. 5:06:10 PM     |

Sigh. Yet more covers. The website was down over the weekend, so I couldn't include it in the Front Cover Day. Here are old German Comic Book Covers. The main page is here (I hate all those frames!). Enjoy. 2:12:59 PM     |

Nice Bushes. Phytophilia Erotica. Via Ronsens. This is only for education purposes of course. 1:51:29 PM     |

Typographic Experiments. Some really nice stuff is here, and here. Last one's Flash, but great: The ergonomics of a book, for example. Or: A typographic bounce. 1:06:49 PM     |

Masks. A catalog of Himalayan Masks. Frightening. 10:30:36 AM     |

Money Matters. A collection of old company invoices and letters. Some of those letterhead designs are lovely. 8:54:43 AM     |

Hey Mr Rain. Rather damp photos of Dortmund over at Ligne Clair. 8:41:20 AM     |

Sunday, December 14, 2003

Quartett. German playing cards. Lots. And I mean lots. 11:19:04 AM     |

At last. A realistic tube map. Via Störsignale, via BoingBoing. 11:05:11 AM     |