The Cartoonist Conspiracy recently collaborated with the City Pages to put together a comics feature on the subject of True Tales of the Twin Cities. That issue is out today in coffee shops, bars and other fine establishments all over the Twin Cities, and online here (with 18 more comics than appear in the printed issue). You can see my comic in the issue here.
Although he is best known today for Happy Hooligan (which we’ve been reprinting examples of recently) Frederick Opper was responsible for a number of popular strips in the early 20th century. Here’s an example of Frederick Opper’s strip And Her Name Was Maud from July 22, 1906. Click the image to read the strip.
Although he is best known today for Happy Hooligan (which we’ve been reprinting examples of recently) Frederick Opper was responsible for a number of popular strips in the early 20th century. Here’s an example of Frederick Opper’s strip And Her Name Was Maud from January 7, 1906. It has another gorgeous T.S. Sullivant header. Click the image to read the strip.
Chapter ten of Kevin Cannon’s fantastic tale of arctic rapscallion Armitage Shanks, Far Arden, is online… only two chapters to go!
Click here to start reading at chapter ten.
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Click here to read more about Kevin Cannon’s mad, mad project.
Although he is best known today for Happy Hooligan (which we’ve been reprinting examples of recently) Frederick Opper was responsible for a number of popular strips in the early 20th century. Here’s an example of Frederick Opper’s strip And Her Name Was Maud from 1905. Please note that this strip contains tasteless racial depictions, so I don’t recommend reading it if that sort of thing offends you. Click the image to read the strip.
Although he is best known today for Happy Hooligan (which we’ve been reprinting examples of recently) Frederick Opper was responsible for a number of popular strips in the early 20th century. Here’s an example of Frederick Opper’s strip And Her Name Was Maud from August 6, 1905. It has another gorgeous header by the wonderful T.S. Sullivant. Click the image to read the strip.
Here’s another example of F.M. Howarth’s strip The Love of Lulu and Leander from January 31, 1904. Click the image to read the strip. This is the last one of these I have scanned for right now.
You can see more examples of this strip (and many other classic comics) at Barnacle Press.