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Post-Mortem Post 002: The Enigma of "Knotknee"
In doing the research for my upcoming 1950s John Stanley bibliography, I was reminded of a couple of curiosities. Among them is the enigmatic filler feature "Knotknee," which first appeared in the 15th...
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Buy A Print Edition of the 1950s John Stanley Bibilography! Yow!
Click HERE to order copies of the standard (black and white interior) edition of the 1950s John Stanley bibilography. It's 190 pages, in a handsome 8 x 10 squarebound trade paperback. The cost is...
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The John Stanley 1950s Bibliography is now on Amazon!
Start spreadin' the nooz! Both the cost-conscious standard edition and the deluxe all-color version of "John Stanley in the 1950s: a Comics Bibliography" are now available for reduced rates on...
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Book Edition of the 1940s John Stanley Bibliography Available on Amazon!
THIS LINK will take you to the amazon.com page for the deluxe full-color version of the 1940s John Stanley bibliography. This is much improved from the original download version, with a great deal of...
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Book Edition of the 1960s John Stanley Bibliography is out!
THIS LINK will take you to the CreateSpace store page for this 112-page full color updated edition of the 1960s John Stanley Bibliography. In a few days, it will be available on Amazon, and I'll append...
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Post-Mortem Post 003: The Fine Art of Comics Pantomime, with Little Lulu and...
John Stanley was a great storyteller. His ability to spin multiple variations on a number of stock plots, and bring something fresh to the table each time, is downright enviable.At the core of his...
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The John Stanley Comics Bibliographies: Don't Forget About 'em!
Just a reminder that Frank M. Young has just published a three volume bibliography of the comics work of John Stanley, the mastermind of Dell Comics' Little Lulu series from 1945 to 1959. These volumes...
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Working Stiff, Working Loose: The 1950s Career of John Stanley | The Comics...
Working Stiff, Working Loose: The 1950s Career of John Stanley | The Comics JournalI have an essay published today on the online version of The Comics Journal. Please check it out--thanks!
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Post-Mortem Post 004: Three "Heckle and Jeckle" stories, hidden in plain sight
To study and catalog the ephemeral is to constantly face the option that the work is never complete. The historian's version of wash-the-car-and-make-it-rain is publish-and-new-things-will-appear.As I...
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Frank M. Young on John Stanley in the Drawn + Quarterly Super-Special!
I just received my contributor's copy yet, and I await the opportunity to spend some quality time with Drawn & Quarterly: 25 Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics and Graphic Novels. Four of its...
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Post-Mortem Post 005: The Second Nancy and Sluggo Summer Camp Special
Every so often, I get an e-mail from someone who has read and enjoyed this blog during its heyday. Though I consider Stanley Stories a done deal, I have done an occasional "post-mortem post."These...
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The Tao of Yow: John Stanley's World: new book available on amazon.com
I am pleased to announce the publication of my new book on John Stanley.The Tao of Yow includes revised versions of three of the acclaimed "John Stanley's World" essays from this blog, Â alongside four...
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Post Mortem Post 006: Stanley's Artistic Transition in the Early Little Lulu...
I've looked at some of John Stanley's Little Lulu stories so many times that it doesn't seem possible they hold anything left to discover.The first 10 Lulu comics, published from 1945 to late 1947 in...
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Post-Mortem Post 007: Wait And They Shall Scan--a VERY Early Stanley Story...
As odds and ends surface, which is occasional here, I continue to post new things, even though this blog is officially kaput.Until recently, Our Gang Comics #4, with John Stanley's second published...
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Post-Mortem Post 008: New Stanley Material Discovered--Oswald the Rabbit Four...
In all my years of research, I somehow overlooked this early 1944 one-shot, which is now important as containing John Stanley's first two long-form stories. This is a terrible quality scan, suitable...
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Post-Mortem Post 009: The Sweetie Pie Conundrum
As I've studied the output of Western Publications, and tried to determine which of their published comic book stories are the work of John Stanley, I've had my doubts about several pieces. Most of...
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Post-Mortem Post 010: The Art of Solid, "Simple" Storytelling: Little Lulu 109
Long time, no post-- Wait a minnit--this blog is supposed to be "dead!"Finito!Kaput! Yes and no. My major work is long done here on Stanley Stories, but I'm aware that it finds new readers every day....
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Here's That Big News: Drawn + Quarterly to Reprint Little Lulu The Right Way!
HERE is the official announcement from Drawn + Quarterly... the first volume in this series, which will reprint the first five one-shot issues of Little Lulu in color, not traced, and in a comic...
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All John Stanley Bibliography Books Updated and Redesigned!
If you have been holding off on purchasing these three volumes, I'm happy to announce that I've completely refurbished them all, with more competent and appealing layouts and graphics than earlier...
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"The Bogyman"—John Stanley's Forbidden Little Lulu Story In Color; Farewell...
This blog is a decade old. It's a done deal, for the most part. I wanted to mark its 10 years of existence with one last special post.In addition to revising, redesigning and updating my three volume...
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Book Revue
Just a couple of recent developments you folks might find of interest...I spent the past two years restoring Cecil Jensen's indescribably droll, dark and whacked-out newspaper comic strip Elmo. It ran...
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All John Stanley Books Available as E-Books!
I know I'm a bit late to the game, but my four books on John Stanley are now available as full-color e-books that contain all the content of the print editions, and are priced at $9.99 each.THE TAO OF...
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Little Lulu Book Two: "The Fuzzythingus Poopi"
 It took me awhile to get my copies of this book, which premiered on September 1st, but I'm happy to say the Drawn and Quarterly production team did a splendid job on this volume.The book has not...
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Lulu Book Three
The third and final (for now) volume of Drawn + Quarterly's full-color hardcover Little Lulu books has been out for a bit. I'm sad that the series has been put on hiatus just as it was picking up some...
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A Stanley Surprise for The New Year: Lost LITTLE LULU Stories Discovered!
https://www.tcj.com/john-stanleys-lost-little-lulu-stories-a-significant-find/Tom Devlin of Drawn + Quarterly made a remarkable find in the papers of cartoonist Irving Tripp. See the results of this...
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