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Glowing reviews for Frank and His Friend
Have you seen some of the nice things that people have been saying about us? Not to toot our own horns or anything, but we wanted to pass on the good news to some of our friends. Do you remember that feeling when you were a kid and your...
Happy New Year 2014
Celebrating the present right now means reflecting on the past year and looking ahead to the future. 2013 was a good year to us at Curio & Co. We got to meet so many new friends and spend time with old friends at trade shows and conferences like Angoulême in...
Merry Christmas
Sending out holiday cheer to all of you from Curio & Co. Our stockings are hung, the egg has been nogged, and we’re all set for a visit from Old Saint Nick. We hope that after he’s checked his list twice we’ve made the cut this year and we’ll get...
Special Collector’s Edition
What do you buy the collector who has almost everything? We are very excited to release our latest book, Frank and His Friend – Special Collector’s Edition, Vol. 1. The book has been released to bookstores everywhere, but you can still get your copy here of course, and we ship...
Trick or Treat!
Frank and His Friend get us into the Halloween spirit. What’s not to love about Halloween? You start off with costumes and games and end up with a big bag of candy. Count me in. Although I’ve never bobbed for apples myself or seen a real haunted house, the Halloween...
Frank and His Friend: Re-reading the classics
What is it that makes a book good enough to return to again and again? Getting a hold of the latest bestseller and losing yourself in a new world is fun, but some books are so good you want to return to them year after year. What is it about...
Giving young fans a hand
The creator of Frank and his Friend may not have liked the limelight, but he sure brightened the lives of others. Clarence ‘Otis’ Dooley was a very modest guy and disliked attending formal events, even if – or especially if – they were given in his honor. He actively tried...
Much ado about nothing
Frank and His Friend offers a helpful gauge to know when to start worrying. One thing that always cracks me up about the Frank and His Friend comics is how divergent the characters’ reactions are to problems. When things are going well, they’re in agreement. From their smiles to their...
Disneyland Records
Read along with your favorite hit records. I had a pretty extensive record collection as a kid. Blockbusters like Ernie’s Rubber Duckie, seasonal standards like Merry Snoopy’s Christmas. But the discs that got the most rotation were the Disneyland Records “Read Along” book and record sets. The book and record...
Disneyland Autopia, 1955
The freedom of the open road…where the cars can’t leave the track. Kids can’t wait to get the keys to the adult world, to be able to call the shots and make their own decisions. And driving is the ultimate expression of control over your life. So why does that...
Lunchbox Identity Crisis
Picking out a new lunchbox was the best part of back-to-school shopping, and maybe the hardest. For a kid, a lunchbox is more than just a means of getting your PB&J to school in tact. It’s a badge of identity in a world where alliances are brokered over intimate knowledge...
It’s a Small World
Stuck in your head since 1964. The 1964 World’s Fair in New York was pretty groundbreaking, if not partially because it was also a little rule-breaking. Technically, it wasn’t a World’s Fair, or not an officially-sanctioned one, anyway. It was stripped of its status by the committee that oversees these...