Here’s an example I scanned of Mr. Jack from 1905 by Jimmy Swinnerton. Swinnerton was a popular and extremely prolific cartoonist, a contemporary and good friend of George Herriman (who shared Herriman’s passion for the southwestern United States, as seen in his Canyon Kiddies strips and his paintings). The hilarious Mr. Jack is the cutest little philanderer you ever saw. Yet another example of what was once considered amusing family fare that is contextually shocking to modern sensibilities. I’m happy to report that I’ll have a lot of Swinnerton to share with you in the coming weeks.

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Click here to read more examples of Swinnerton’s Mr. Jack at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read examples of Little Jimmy at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read examples of Swinnerton’s Mr. Batch at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read more examples of Swinnerton’s Mr. Jack at The Stripper’s Guide

Read an article from 1906 about Jimmy Swinnerton at The Stripper’s Guide.

See an example of Swinnerton’s Mount Ararat (second series) at The Stripper’s Guide.

See examples of Swinnerton’s An Embarrassing Moment at The Stripper’s Guide.

See examples of Swinnerton’s Canyon Kiddies, Mr. Jack, Mount Ararat and Little Jimmy, as well as some of his landscape paintings, on Coconino Classics.

See examples of a variety of strips by Swinnerton at Ohio State University’s Newspaper Cartoon Artists online exhibit.

Click here to read about Jimmy Swinnerton at lambiek.net.

Click here to read more about Mr. Jack at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

Click here to read more about Jimmy Swinnerton at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.