Quick Hits from Hogan's Alley

Hogan's Alley's e-newsletter has some great stuff:

QUICK HITS: If you ever doubted that the Golden Age of automotive advertising occurred in the 1950s, this animated commercial for the 1955 Nash will convince you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbMZKxZ6Ips . . . We don't know if you caught this brilliantly nihilistic claymation-style take on a certain boy and his stuffed tiger comrade, but you owe it to yourself to see it
at http://youtube.com/watch?v=6-OnKakA8TY&mode=related&search= . . .
The blogging phenomenon has given rise to some interesting comics-related sites (any many, many more soporific ones). But the Silent Penultimate Panel Watch
(.http://penultimate-panel.blogspot.com.) has a unique specialty, cataloguing each day's strips that use a "beat" panel in the next-to-last spot. Some strips use them effectively, some as a crutch, but it's a hoot to see what blogger Matt Gill and his SPP sentinels
turn up each day . . . United Feature Syndicate is offering "Cow & Boy" as its annual Christmas strip this year at
http://www.comics.com/comics/cbsanta/index.html , and Mark Leiknes is delivering a solid effort worthy of inclusion in a tradition that stretches back to 1937 . . . Like us, you probably never cease to be amused by your favorite "Far Side" cartoons. So, like us, you'll
probably get a big kick out of these meticulous re-creations of some classic Gary Larson panels:
http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=10824&display=photoshop
(We wish we had that kind of time on our hands.) . . . Hogan's Alley contributor Mike Rhode has assembled a collection of bookplate artwork by Clifford Berryman, the cartoonist best known for his depictions of
the original teddy bear. You can read his feature, available exclusively through this newsletter, at
http://www.cagle.com/hogan/newsletter_extras/berryman/main.asp.