MetaFilter posts tagged with vintage and comics

Master of Good Girl Art and Pop Culture Pioneer

netbros — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:30:49 -0800

The Passion of Dave Stevens — The work of the late, great Dave Stevens is known to comic book aficionados in the form of his enduring creation, The Rocketeer, and to art collectors and illustration enthusiasts for his reverently retro yet brilliantly modern renditions of vintage pulp characters, science fiction adventurers and iconic superheroes. But as dedicated Stevens fans know, the artist's true passion and inspiration manifests in his seemingly countless and unfailingly exquisite renderings of the female form, most typically in the classic pinup and "good girl art" style at which he became one of the very best. [nsfw comic art]

Girls! Girls! Girls!

hermitosis — Sat, 07 May 2011 07:55:21 -0800

Vintage Sleaze: Exploitation and enticement in the form of drawings, comics, and pinups.

Now that we're in the future, let's look back at the past.

tractorfeed — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:30:03 -0800

The Vintage Ad Browser "aims to collect vintage ads from a variety of sources, including comic books, CD-Roms, websites, APIs, your submissions, book, magazine & comic book scans, and more." At the time of this post, the site contains 123,286 ads. Brought to you by the creator of Cover Browser (previously), where you can peruse almost half a million covers of "comics, books, and more."

Fancy a little story?

carsonb — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:12:35 -0800

On this page
you can make a choice
out of several little stories
in different languages.
Most of them however can be enjoyed without speaking the used language.

Ach, those damn 110 year old kids!

madamjujujive — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:04:00 -0800

The Katzenjammer Kids * are 110 years old this month, the world's longest running comic. Watch 1918's Policy & Pie (pt. 2), rare animation by creator Rudolph Dirks who lost the strip to William Randolph Hearst in a court case. The strip was taken over by Harold H. Knerr, but Dirks retained rights to the characters and produced a rival cartoon under The Captain & the Kids for Pulitzer papers for several decades. Five artists followed Dirks and Knerr creating the strip for Hearst.

Viñetas - Spanish comics and illustration blog

mediareport — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:59:12 -0800

Viñetas is a prolific blog from Spain focusing on illustration, vintage comics (sometimes wordless), advertising, humor magazines and other beautiful ephemera, curated by the editor-in-chief of a Spanish comics company. [via Journalista]

Shorpy Comics

jonson — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 07:20:24 -0800

Shorpy, the awesome photoblog of old photos has added a comics section and are now running newspaper comics from the first half of the 20th century. Via.

Terry and the Pirates ... Little Orphan Annie ... Buster Brown ...

anastasiav — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:16:54 -0800

Barnacle Press :: Amazing Archive of Vintage Comic Strips

Vintage Computing Comic Books

.kobayashi. — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 12:03:48 -0800

The Computer That Said NO to Drugs (and the other 7 issues of Tandy Computer Whiz Kid comics.) And if we're feeling nostalgic now, there many more retro computer magazines where that came from.

Ivan Ho!

Robot Johnny — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:27:40 -0800

Ivan Brunetti, in addition to drawing dirty little comics (nsfw) and illustrations, has a great collection of vintage photographs of models, both demure and not-so-demure (again, nsfw), Hollywood starlets, cats, and comics ephemera. Finally, he also has a blog featuring a Doodle-a-Day.

Sappy Benday Romance

chinese_fashion — Tue, 07 Dec 2004 11:45:22 -0800

I avoided these like the plague as a kid , sifting through stacks of old comics at my uncle's antique store. Now I kinda dig the bland-yet-breathless Lichtenstein quality of these old romance comics. Brought to you by the stellar Heck's Kitchen and a spectacular English teacher (mentioned on Kitchen's front page)