HEY! KIDS! COMICS!: Walt Kelly Pogo Sunday at The Fabuleous Fifties: June 17th, 2008

Posted on June 17, 2008 by STWALLSKULL

I found a new site full of old comics today. Those Fabuleous Fifties has a lot of nice stuff posted, including the full 1952 Pogo Sunday strip by the great Walt Kelly you see a panel from below. Click on it to go to the post on the Fabuleous Fifties site.

Crumbling Paper: Blondie

Posted on June 16, 2008 by STWALLSKULL

Here’s an example I scanned from November 15, 1931 of Blondie, along with the header strip The Family Foursome by Chic Young. The early Blondie strips that I have read from before it became a formulaic routine of sandwich and angry boss strips are quite fun and charming. The strip premiered in September 1930, so this is a little over a year into it.

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 the image to view the full strip.

See Blondie Gets Married from the Library of Congress.

See a round-up of articles on Blondie’s 75th anniversary at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read some examples of The Affairs of Jane by Chic Young at The Stripper’s Guide.

Click here to read about Chic Young at lambiek.net.

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

Go to the official Blondie website.

Crumbling Paper: Little Sammy Sneeze, The Wish Twins and Aladdin’s Lamp, and Feminine Fancies

Posted on June 12, 2008 by STWALLSKULL

Allan Holtz at the excellent old comics blog The Stripper’s Guide posted an example the other day of The Wish Twins and Aladdin’s Lamp by W.O. Wilson, which inspired me to get this posted. Here’s an example I scanned from August 5th, 1906 of The Wish Twins and Aladdin’s Lamp by W.O. Wilson, along with Little Sammy Sneeze by Winsor McCay, and Feminine Fancies by unknown. If anyone out there knows the cartoonist who did Feminine Fancies (which I believe is the same series as Fancies of the Fair), please let me know… their signature is in the middle panel.

Click the image to view the full strip.

Click here to read more examples of Little Sammy Sneeze at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read more examples of The Wish Twins and Aladdin’s Lamp at Barnacle Press.

See some stunning examples of W.O. Wilson’s Madge the Magician’s Daughter at Hogan’s Alley (which are also in black and white in the print edition of the magazine).

Click here to read more examples of Fancies of the Fair at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read about Winsor McCay at lambiek.net.

Click here to read about W.O. Wilson at lambiek.net.

It appears someone recently published a small book collection of Madge the Magician’s Daughter.

There are too many McCay books for me to reference here… we live in wondrous times. Here is a link to the amazing McCay books from Sunday Press printed and restored at full size… big enough to be used as a blunt object. They recently did a Little Sammy Sneeze book that oh boy I gotta have someday, which also includes a lot of examples of two other marvelous strips that were printed on the backs of the Sammy Sneeze strips… The Upside-Downs by Gustave Verbeek and J.P. Benson’s Woozlebeasts.

More Herriman Cigarette Buttons

Posted on June 11, 2008 by STWALLSKULL

I posted pictures I found on Ebay of George Herriman cigarette buttons up for auction a while ago. A couple more are up for auction. One is the same as one I posted previously, but this one is new:

HEY! KIDS! COMICS!: Basil Wolverton’s ROBOT WOMAN: June 11th, 2008

Posted on June 11, 2008 by STWALLSKULL

Here’s a new category for this website… “HEY! KIDS! COMICS!” will be a secondary “link list” feature only visually juicy comics links from around the internets, with an image of a featured item at the top (conveniently linked from the image). A doozy is featured today… the great Basil Wolverton’s Robot Woman, courtesy of The Fortress of Fortitude.

Crumbling Paper: Say Pop! Pop makes a good traffic cop.

Posted on June 4, 2008 by STWALLSKULL

Here’s a hilarious example I scanned of Say Pop! aka Nippy’s Pop aka S’Matter Pop from 1918 by C.M. Payne. I’m under the impression that this was a pretty popular strip in its day, so I’m somewhat surprised how little information on it there seems to be on the web. Note that some of Payne’s work was reprinted in Dan Nadel’s recent excellent compendium of obscure and forgotten cartoonists, Art Out of Time.

Click here to read about C.M. Payne at lambiek.net.

Crumbling Paper: Simon Tackles the Truant Officer’s Job

Posted on June 3, 2008 by STWALLSKULL

Here’s an example I scanned of Simon Simple from somewhere from 1901 to 1905 by Ed Carey.

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 the image to view the full strip.

Read another Simon Simple strip at The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.

Click here to read about Ed Carey at lambiek.net.

Crumbling Paper: The Thrilling Rescue of Little Tommy’s Best Hat

Posted on May 30, 2008 by STWALLSKULL

Here’s an example I scanned of a one-shot strip called The Thrilling Rescue of Little Tommy’s Best Hat from June 15, 1902 by Walter McDougall. McDougall was the first syndicated newspaper artist. He drew what has been noted as the first color comic strip in an American newspaper (“The Unfortunate Fate of a Well-Intended Dog”). In 1898 he drew what was likely to be the largest single panel comic drawn for a newspaper, which was spread over two pages.

Click the image to view the full strip.

Don’t miss these fantastic examples of Walt McDougall’s comics on Ohio State University’s Newspaper Cartoon Artists, 1898-1909 online exhibit

See some various works by Walt McDougall at Barnacle Press.

Read The Outlet by Walt McDougall at Barnacle Press.

Crumbling Paper: That Family Next Door

Posted on May 29, 2008 by STWALLSKULL

Here’s a nice example I scanned of That Family Next Door from 1918 by Kuatt? Knott? Can anyone identify this cartoonist? It’s a pretty polished cartoon, and a funny one, so I would think this is likely to have been done by a known cartoonist. Note the similarity in title and theme to George Herriman’s wonderful The Family Upstairs.

UPDATE: Reader D.D. Degg in the comments let us know that this is by cartoonist Jean Knott, who also did the strips Penny Ante and Eddieâ€™s Friends. Thanks D.D.! See examples of Penny Ante on Barnacle Press here. See an example of Eddie’s Friends on Shorpy here.