Crumbling Paper: The County Fair on Mount Ararat (strip #1)

Here’s an example I scanned of Mount Ararat from 1903 by Jimmy Swinnerton. I really like old sprawling, gag-filled one-panel strips like this and Outcault’s Yellow Kid.

Click the image to view the full strip.

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

Click here to read 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 examples of Swinnerton’s An Embarrassing Moment at The Stripper’s Guide.

Click here to read 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.

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.

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