Here’s an example I scanned of The Handy Man from Timbuctoo by CAW from 1904. The Handy Man is a truly bizarre character… as bizarre as they come, really. A wandering hairy-man do-gooder, with a pet tiger sidekick.
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Here’s a delightful MGM cartoon directed by Rudolph Ising that has been a frequent request of my daughter’s recently. Featuring The Three Little Kittens from the nursery rhyme. The kittens don’t appear to have been in any other cartoons.
Here’s an example I scanned of Peter Newell’s beautifully-drawn strip Polly Sleepyhead from 1907.
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Please be advised that like many of the comic strips of the era, it contains offensive racial depictions. If this sort of thing offends you, you may not want to view it.
Click here to read more examples of The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead at Barnacle Press.
Click here to see more examples of The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead at nonsenselit.org.
Here’s another example of Dr. Seuss done right by Hollywood. Here’s the trailer for the great live action Dr. Seuss movie from 1953, The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T
Read more about the film on Wikipedia.
Read more about the film on the Internet Movie Database.
Here’s a fun image-filled post about the movie at learning2share.blogspot.com.
Here’s an example I scanned of Uncle Mun from April 24, 1910 by Fred Nankivell.
Update: I earlier attributed this strip to Frank Nankivell. In the comments here, according to this Frank Nankivell’s granddaughter, Jody Nankivell Herriott, he had nothing to do with this strip, and the person that did do this strip was named Fred, not Frank.
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Click here to read another Uncle Mun example at The Stripper’s Guide.
After reading a bit about the latest atrocity that Hollywood is perpetrating on the legacy of the great Dr. Seuss, I thought I would point you to one of the times they got it dead right… here’s Horton Hatches an Egg directed by Bob Clampett.
Read more about this cartoon here on the Big Cartoon Database.
Here’s a great, revealing Seuss anecdote from the biography of him, Dr. Seuss and Mr. Geisel
Reader Steve Walker sent me the below images and asked me if I could identify the artist… I can’t, can you? Also, these need a punchline, if you’ve got one of those. I’ll update this post with information and punchlines from the comments.
STWALLSKULL’s attempt (and probable failure) to make the cartoon funny:
“Well, um, ah, maybe I killed her just a little bit.”
Here’s a close up of the signature.
