Arf Forum hits the bookshelves June 25 is out now. I did my portrait of William Ekgren especially for this book. Created and edited by Craig Yoe. Published by Fantagraphics.

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ARF FORUM
Craig Yoe
The third volume of the popular “Arf” series, Arf Forum runs the gamut from Krazy Kat¹s kartoonist George Herriman to heartbreak rocker Elvis, Spider-Man’s Stan Lee to New Yorker cartoonist Otto Soglow, Little Nemo’s Winsor McCay to silent film star Charlie Chaplin, Nancy’s Ernie Bushmiller to Surrealist Max Ernst. The sexy pin-up cover on Arf Forum highlights a feature on historical images of people reading comics: from a young Elvis reading Betty and Veronica on his first tour to a boxer-clad Rock Hudson reading the Sunday funnies. Also ratcheting up the titillation factor is a spread on the sexy cartoons of Italian artist, Kremos. The Arf books have a special fondness for cartoonists doing wacky and surrealistic comics. This Arf features a generous sample of Bill Holman’s Smokey Stover, including unpublished rarities. Also in this volume, macabre cartoonist Henry Heath goes devilish in the ongoing “Cartoonists Go To Hell” series. A bona fide super-hero swoops into the pages of Arf when “Captain Marvel Fights The Surrealist Imp” in a classic tale from the Golden Age of Comics; meanwhile, real-life superhero Stan Lee introduces a section devoted to, in Lee’s own words, Yoe’s own “wacky, weird, wild comics that become Art with a capital ‘A’!” And finally, “Yabba Dabba Been Done” examines the caveman and dinosaur cartoons of masters T.S. Sullivant, Winsor McCay and Frederick Opper — all pre-Fred and Wilma Flintstone!

120-page b&w/color 9” x 12” paperback $19.95