Ray Harryhausen RIP

Thanks, boingboing.net

Father of the Modern Comic Strip: Wilhelm Busch 1832-1908

Max and Moritz (A Story of Seven Boyish Pranks)

Wilhelm Busch was a German painter and poet, best known for his drawings and funny verse. His sketches with verse for weekly magazines are considered precursors of the comic strip. He really wanted to be a great painter like the Flemish master painters and indeed he did execute 1,000 oil paintings over the course of his life, living like a hermit.

But by 1910 (2 years after his death), half a million copies of his Max and Moritz from 1865, a black comedy children's story about himself and a real life friend, were printed in German. 

The book was the forerunner of the Katzenjammer Kids and is still popular today in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

LINK

Covered in dough!

Read this book online.

(Thanks, Suzanne G for reminder)

This Says it All

Dorothy Lamour and chimp from Cult of Aphrodite Vintage

Black Cat Roller Derby Woman (1800s)

What a super photo! From Cult of Aphrodite Vintage: LINK 

(Thanks, Laquita)

Photo of the day!

Now, you know I love this one!

A beautiful photo of Buster Keaton with a pet monkey in a sailor suit.

 

(Thanks Decaying Hollywood Mansions)

 

The Art of Amy Crehore

Cat tricks

 Cat with a hula hoop.

(Thanks, Gisele Metten FB)

Bottom photo: I captured my own cat standing on my porch. Isn't she cute?

She kind of resembles the cat with the hula hoop

don't you think? I will have to get her a hula hoop!

You can see how inspirational my own cat is.  

(Photo by Amy Crehore)

Watch Bootsy show you how to play funk

Thanks go to Benjamin Phillips on twitter