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Hello!

Commercial interruption! We are doing a soft launch of the new PictureBox site… now! Over there you will find a whole mess of new stuff. Original artwork from Real Deal and Tales from Greenfuzz, drawings and paintings by Mat Brinkman and Milton Glaser. The new Jimbo comic by Gary Panter, a brand new Yokoyama book. The famed Garo catalog by Ryan Holmberg, a Japanese Jimmy Corrigan poster by Chris Ware, tons of vintage comics and more. The site is not perfect yet, but we’re working on it.

Besides all the “new shit” there’s a whole mess of new content, with much more on the way, to be announced shortly. For now I just wanted to do a quiet test with you, the CC faithful. Ease into it and enjoy.

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A nice discovery over at Stripper’s Guide: A rare set of daily comic strips by Charles Forbell (1884-1946), whose ingenious (and until now, I thought his sole) comic strip “Naughty Pete” (1913) is featured in Art Out of Time. Turns out in 1929 he briefly turned out a strip called “Cuddles: A Flapper in King Arthur’s Court”, which, well, you can pretty much figure it out. It boasts the same fine line work seen in “Naughty Pete”, though, judging from the four samples online, not the formal play. Forbell clearly loved “olden days” stuff, as he ran cartoons in Judge and Life throughout the early part of the 20th century under titles including “In Ye Goode Old Days” “In Ancient Times” and “Ancient Sources of Modern Inventions.” I would have liked to have seen his choice in home decor. Could’ve been lively.