Sunglasses in 1807 (no, this is not photoshopped!).
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“1864” is on TV in Denmark right now, I think. I hope we get a full version with subtitles - these subtitles were made by the youtube user.
Epic stuff!
There is going to be a film about the Vancouver Asahi baseball team! That’s been one of my favourite stories since I watched the NFB documentary. You should watch it too!
EDIT ON: Five Days of Releases! →
We got FIVE days of releases from
TWELVESIXTEEN TopatoCo creators! That’s crazy bananas!Wanna see the list? YEAH YOU DO! You silly goose.
- MONDAY: Hark! A Vagrant, A Softer World, Dr. McNinja
- TUESDAY: Brandon Bird, Johnny Wander, Girls With…
THESE ARE ALL OUT NOW!
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Put an architectural spin on your Halloween and go as your favorite building!
nyclandmarkscommission’s post reminded us of these great costume ideas from the 1931 Beaux-Arts Ball:
NEW YORK, NY - Sky-line for the masque ball! - Beaux Arts fete features novel architectural costumes.
Excerpted from: This Week in Universal News: Beaux-Arts Ball, 1931, Universal News Volume 3, Release 7 #1-10, January 19, 1931
On January 23, 1931, architects dressed up as the buildings they designed for the Beaux-Arts Ball in New York. In this week’s featured story, they are pictured from left to right, A. Stewart Walker as the Fuller Building, Leonard Schultze as the Waldorf-Astoria, Ely Jacques Kahn as the Squibb Building, William Van Alen as the Chrysler Building, Ralph Walker as the Wall Street Building and Joseph Freedlander as the Museum of the City of New York.
Watch the entire newsreel, featuring a polar submarine, a train wreck, Charles Lindbergh receiving a medal from a French ambassador, dancing dogs, and “dangerous” figure skating, among other stories here.
Universal Newsreels were shown in movie theaters twice a week, from 1929 until 1967, and covered a wide range of American life and history during that time period. In 1974, Universal deeded its collection to the United States through the National Archives and is one of our most used motion picture collections. Learn more about the Universal Newsreel Collection in this post and in this Prologue article. Watch other Universal Newsreels in our research room, in OPA, and on this playlist.
via Media Matters » This Week in Universal News: Beaux-Arts Ball, 1931
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Hooray!! The store has updated with lots of things, and more to come! I’ll be promoting it from time to time! Thanks for helping me shape this year’s merchandise! Lots of fun Wee The Peoples.
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Comic! Are you full to the brim of Pride and Prejudice parodies?
I had never heard of this fascinating corner of American history. Luckily, the University of Iowa has an amazing online resource.
A Cat Named Tim and Other Stories and Cat Dad, King of the Goblins Launch Party!
TODAY 25 October 2014 | 12-2PM At Little Island Comics, Toronto, ON | FREE
Kid-friendly activities and atmosphere! More details here and the event page here. psst. There’ll be free stuff!
This is today, Toronto friends! Especially you who have wee ones in your life,
I saw Rhymes for Young Ghouls featured on apple trailers, and I am not sure why I haven’t heard of it before. Story of a young Mi'kmaq girl in the 70s but way more than that, it looks powerful.
Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman-Hughes, 1972 and 2014
Both by Dan Bagan
Wanna see my cry like a baby? Ask me who these women were.
Hughes’ father was beaten nearly to death by the KKK when she was a kid, and what does she do? Become an activist to try and stop that from happening to other people. She raised money to bail civil rights protesters out of jail. She helped women get out of abusive situations by providing shelter for them until they got on their feet. She founded an agency that helped women get to work without having to leave their children alone, because childcare in the 1970s? Not really a thing. In fact, a famous feminist line in the 70s was “every housewife is one man away from welfare.”
Then she teamed up with Steinman to found the Women’s Action Alliance, which created the first battered women’s shelters in history. They attacked women’s rights issues through boots on the ground activism, problem solving, and communication. They stomped over barriers of race and class to meet women where they were: mostly mothers who wanted better for themselves and their children.
These are women are who I always wanted to be.
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Man fighting bear dime novel cover, Beadle’s Frontier Series No. 11, 1908, Davy Crockett’s Boy Hunter by Edward Willett (1830-1899). (Inside title is David Crockett…) Digest-size novel. Willett also wrote a biography of Lt. Gen. Ulyysses S. Grant in 1865 (Beadle’s Dime Biographical Library No. 15). Almost all the books in this series reprinted Munro’s Ten Cent Novels.
the double pistol knife in yr face! I would be as surprised as this bear
I work out of a studio in Toronto with a bunch of cool people. Do you want to join us? Because YOU CAN
My sister Laureen took this picture, she took them to a bookstore. I love these two! My heart swells. I want to give them an award for letting me draw comics about them and not complaining. They are the best.
If you enjoyed poking fun at genres with Femme Fatale, and if you like smart parody, give Nonsense Novels by Stephen Leacock a spin. It’s one of my favourite humour collections of all time. Leacock is perhaps not very well known outside his native land, but he is a grandfather of parody, among the best of them. Nonsense Novels was first published in 1911, and takes on several literary tropes, the first - as you see here - is the Great Detective. The link is to a nice pdf of the whole book.