The Cartoonist

Wednesday, December 31, 2003

Goodbye 2003. 10:01:38 AM    | |

Tuesday, December 30, 2003

Golem. Again. Fantastic resource about Paul Wegener's movie The Golem. Stills, posters, and the script. Sorry - all in German - except for the stills and posters. Via Filmtagebuch. 7:27:16 PM   Cult, Literature | |

And I Thought it was Funny. The trouble with German humour is that Germany's so-called journalists always try to make it unfunny. I actually found yesterday's prime-time show very funny, if not innovative - for Germans. But there you go. I live in the UK, where nobody dissects silly comedy shows like they do in Germany, like - where's the deeper meaning in all of this? Hey, it was just silly. And I'm really sorry if I thought it was funny. 6:47:14 PM   Cult | |

Now this is stupid. Bank of England hit by email hoax. Business: Bank of England is victim of a hoax email that asked businesses and the public to download software to protect their cash accounts. [Guardian Unlimited] 2:44:30 PM   London | |

The Chelsea Girls. I've just scanned the title page of film 7/67, together with an article by Jonas Mekas about the 'New American Cinema'; an interview with Andy Warhol and a review of Chelsea Girls. It's all here. And I'm seriously thinking about setting up a proper website - the .mac homepage stuff might be good for photos, but for a documentation like this it just doesn't work. Well, let's see. 2:41:08 PM   Cult | |

Groovy. Wolfgang's Vault offers a huge collection of original rock concert posters, flyers, tickets and whatnot. Fab. 9:56:26 AM   Art & Advertising, Cult | |

Landing a Probe on Mars. Fantastic article by Stuart Jeffries: Anyone seen a small spaceship?. Stuart Jeffries on the great art of British failure. [Guardian Unlimited] Why hasn't the Beagle sent a signal? Because it is British, and because Mars has the wrong kind of clay on its surface. Terribly rich in iron, you see, completely unsuitable for Martian probe landings. British ones, at least. 9:05:53 AM    | |

Monday, December 29, 2003

Boston. And here is Boston Illustrated from 1891. 3:36:41 PM   Literature | |

Gold! The map of Treasure Island, as drawn by Jim Hawkins. 3:29:21 PM   Literature | |

1967 - those were the days. Film 11/67 is online, the Godard issue. Unfortunately I couldn't publish the Godard interview - it's by Gideon Bachmann and comes with 10 lines of US-Copyright notes - but I've scanned an interview with Terence Fisher of Hammer Films. 11:06:36 AM   Cult | |

Cash and Plastic. A gallery of 784 receipts. The Inland Revenue will be pissed off. Via Coudal Partners. 8:39:10 AM   Cult | |

I am not surprised. Revealed: tube crisis as firms fined £32m. Politics: Travellers on the London Underground have endured a dramatic collapse in the network's reliability since its part privatisation a year ago. [Guardian Unlimited] 8:20:44 AM   London | |

Sunday, December 28, 2003

Film [2]. The first few covers and contents pages are online. Have fun. If you click in the Slideshow window onto the image, you should get a 100% view. 1:21:26 PM   Cult | |

Saturday, December 27, 2003

Raumpatrouille. Into the future. Who needs Beagle2 when Old Europe is still in charge of the Fast Spacecruiser Orion 8? 8:34:51 PM   Cult, Orion Pics | |

Film. Thanks to my dearly loved Uncle Clemens I'm in the posession of a complete set of editions of the German Film magazine, volumes ranging from 1965 to 1969. I'm thinking about setting up a website with a few covers and some chosen articles - especially the Warhol and Godard interviews - is anybody interested? The drawback is, of course, that it's all in German. Any suggestions? And no, I'm certainly not going to translate it! Oh, is there still a copyright on a magazine that doesn't exist anymore? 8:05:38 PM   Cult | |

Time After Time. Andy Warhol's Time Capsules at the MMK Frankfurt, until Feb. 29. Via gesternwarnichtheute. 10:22:26 AM   Art & Advertising | |

Words. The Foolish Dictionary. An exhausting work of reference to un-certain English words, their origin, meaning, legitimate and illegitimate use. 9:52:15 AM   Cult, Literature | |

19th Nervous Breakdown. The artist Jeffrey Jones always had a history of depressions, now his illness has caught up with him. He suffered a nervous breakdown and lives currently in a community home for the mentally ill, unable to paint. 105 pages of his dark and broody paintings are still available on the web. 9:45:03 AM   Art & Advertising, Cult | |

Friday, December 26, 2003

How Brilliant. Lots of panoramas at Peter Murphy's Panoramic VR Weblog. 7:44:50 PM   Blogs | |

Flaming Creatures. A Piero Heliczer Website. 1:05:21 PM   Cult | |

Quickmas. Somebody else is enjoying Christmas too. 1:00:52 PM   Blogs | |

Zoe is definitely enjoying Christmas. Definitely. 10:44:11 AM   Blogs | |

Thursday, December 25, 2003

Now this fits with the 'Festive Season'. Nico and the Velvets, I'll be your mirror [MP3 - 3rd from top]. Photo from The Velvet Underground and Nico. Mhmm - there's Lou on the left. But is he playing his Gretsch Country Gentleman or is this some different kind of guitar? How strange. I still want a Fender Jaguar though. 3:55:43 PM   Cult | |

The Cartoonist Recommends: Al Franken, Liars. Fabulous book, a Christmas present from my son. Better than Moore. Al Franken, one of America's savviest satirists has studied the rhetoric of the Right. He has listened to their cries of "slander", "bias" and even "treason". He's even watched Fox News. A lot. And in this "fair and balanced report", he bravely exposes them all for what they are: liars. 3:37:05 PM   Cult, Literature | |

The Scotland Diary. Armin Grewe has completed his Scotland Winter 2003 Travelogue and some of the pictures he took are breathtaking. If I'm getting enough freelance work next year, I'll definitely drive up there for a week or two. 3:12:59 PM   London | |

Lost Art. Help Mike Kaluta find his missing art. After you've done that, have a look at the art he hasn't mislaid yet. It's fab - Metropolis, The Shadow... 8:45:39 AM   Art & Advertising, Cult | |

Tooned Up. Classic TV characters like Jeannie, the Bundys and more as tooned up maquettes at Electric Tiki. Via Eye of the Goof. 8:33:04 AM   Cult | |

Wednesday, December 24, 2003

A Happy Christmas to All of You! 9:18:37 AM    | |

Tuesday, December 23, 2003

Crimestoppers. The Dick Tracy Museum. Great. 2:57:27 PM   Art & Advertising, Cult | |

We are Citizens of the Sky. Patrícia, thank you so much for this link - it's wonderful. A beautiful collection of images documenting the early history of aeronautics. Fantastic. 2:42:22 PM   Cult | |

Knowledge is Power. The Handbook for the Dental Technician. Nice. 10:39:14 AM   Literature | |

Arf, Arf! A new Robo-Dog. Runs on Windows though, so it's likely to crash... 10:31:46 AM    | |

Monday, December 22, 2003

World Domination. Wanna become a proper villain? A terrorist? Or a second Dr Evil? Get all your stock at villainsupply.com. Fantastic online store for everything evil; good for some last minute Christmas presents. I've already ordered the LUNAR MASS DRIVER: Terrorize the Earth with our recently completed Lunar Mass Driver. Accelerate hunks of moon rock up to 10,000 metric tons in size up to 3700 mph, smashing any Earth city you choose to aim it at. Also good for destroying space stations, altering the Earth's weather, and yes, building a Socialist satellite paradise in space. Price: US450,000,000,000 I think I'll try it out on Gelsenkirchen, just after Christmas. Or they'll have to pay me a meeellion dollars for not trying it out. 3:35:51 PM   Cult | |

From my Sketchbooks. Good grief - this is now almost 6 years old. Time flies, I guess. 2:46:34 PM    | |

White Christmas? Bah, humbug. Here's a gallery of digital snowflakes. 2:31:42 PM    | |

A New Layout. Michelle has a new layout. Well, her weblog has. And she found a link to some fabulous old layouts. 9:14:39 AM   Art & Advertising, Blogs | |

Piccadilly. This is one one of my favourite walks too - from Green Park to Chinatown. Thanks to Route 79. 8:52:46 AM   Blogs, London | |

Sunday, December 21, 2003

Grrr. It started on Friday night. Spams, coming from one address, every 15 minutes the same message twice. On Saturday a second one joined in with a similar spam. Every 15 minutes. And now a third one. This amounts to about 300-400 spams on a daily basis, plus the usual spam I'm getting anyway. I couldn't care less, I just filter the crap and have it deleted automatically. But there are quite a few more people in the recipients list, all with pipex.dial addresses, who might not be so clever. Especially when you're away over the holidays and upon return find your mailbox has exploded. Guess there's another worm making the rounds. Brrr. 9:17:34 PM    | |

Risks and Calamities. 56 Dutch posters on safety and health at work. Brilliant. 9:09:12 PM   Art & Advertising | |

Dick. A gallery of the most phallic buildings in the World. 10:33:38 AM    | |

Saturday, December 20, 2003

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

White Teeth. A toothpaste collection. From 1800 until now. Amazing. 3:31:47 PM   Art & Advertising, Cult | |

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

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   Literature | |

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   London | |

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

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

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   Cult, Literature, London | |

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   Blogs | |

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

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   Art & Advertising | |

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   Cult | |

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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   Cult | |

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   Cult | |

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   Art & Advertising, Cult | |

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

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   Cult | |

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

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   Cult | |

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

Saturday, December 13, 2003

Everybody is an Artist [2]. Create your own Picassos. Thanks to the Fact or Fiction Network. 5:32:21 PM   Cult | |

Housecleaning. Added a few more links to the nav-bar on the right: michelle (gotta steal from her again: she's posted some great links!), ronsens and thingsmagazine. Updated the archives. Updated the Pico search engine (running out of free space there). Noticed that I'm in the Top 100 of Radio-managed weblogs. Sigh. This really is sad. I should get a life. But then I still want to update the Corgi/Dinky website...tomorrow? 1:44:59 PM   Blogs | |

This is important. This is great. This is fantastic. This is cult. This is art: All the episodes of Les Shadoks in Quicktime. Here. I'm happy. Thanks to Sönke for pointing this out. 12:45:23 PM   Art & Advertising, Cult | |

Pixies. The covers of the German fairy tales book series, known as 'Pixi Books'. Enough of all those covers. My eyes are hurting. And my brain is melting. 12:02:02 PM   Literature | |

The Gaul. Asterix covers, global. 11:48:07 AM   Cult | |

One for the Kids. A collection of 19th Century children's magazines. Also check out the main site, there's lots of very interesting stuff in there. Amazing. 11:31:00 AM   Literature | |

Smallville. Superboy covers. 10:34:07 AM   Cult | |

Zines. A gallery of fanzine covers. Amazing: I actually found two in there I still have, probably somewhere in the loft collecting dust. 9:44:13 AM   Cult | |

Pointy Ears. The Golden Age Batman Cover Gallery. Fab. All of the covers you will see displayed here are from the "Golden Age" through the "Silver Age" of comics, generally from the early 1940's to mid 1960's. I hope you enjoy the opportunity to see some of the great comic book cover art of the 1940's, 50s and 60's. 9:27:17 AM   Cult | |

Dynamite. The covers of the German pulp series 'Mr Dynamit'. Great designs. All done without the help of Photoshop. 9:10:05 AM   Cult | |

This is your Bishop Information Minister speaking. Today is international Front Cover day! Wait and see... 8:38:39 AM    | |

Friday, December 12, 2003

Everybody is an Artist. Paintings by numbers. 9:16:21 PM   Art & Advertising, Cult | |

There must be a Method to the Madness. Alas, I fail to see it. Here is the home of the Simpson family. In real. In big. 9:07:54 PM   Cult | |

Great too. The