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.
Here’s an example I scanned of Uncle Mun from May 1, 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.
Here’s a second set of miscellaneous one panel gags by unknown artists that appeared here (as before) above an Uncle Pike strip (this one is lost)… this is probably from 1903. Glad Rags, the Corpulent Tramp is in the final panel, so that one is presumably by William F. Marriner. If you can identify any of the other artists, please let me know in the comments and I’ll note it here. See the first set I scanned of one panel gags here. I’m still hoping for identification of those artists as well.
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Here’s a great turn of the last century obscurity called The Bad Dream that Made Bill a Better Boy by William Steinigans… the format would appear to be a blatant rip off of Little Nemo. There are some other examples of this strip I noticed in an amazing book I need to get a copy of one of these days, The World on Sunday : Graphic Art in Joseph Pulitzer’s Newspaper (1898 – 1911).
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Here’s an example I scanned of an Uncle Pike strip by A.D. Reed.
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Click here to see a very brief entry about A.D. Reed at lambiek.net.
Here’s an example I scanned of the bottom half of an Uncle Pike strip from 1903 by A.D. Reed.
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Click here to see a very brief entry about A.D. Reed at lambiek.net.
Here’s are three gorgeous T.S. Sullivant headers for the Comic Supplement of The Chicago Sunday American… I posted them previously with the strips they were attached to, but I thought they were worth highlighting in their own post.
November 5th, 1905
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August 6, 1905
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January 7, 1906
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Read more about Sullivant on the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive.
See more Sullivant art on the Sekvenskonst blog here and here.
See more Sullivant artwork at The Stripper’s Guide here and here.
See more Sullivant artwork at Coconino World here.
See more Sullivant art on the Duck Walk blog here.
See more Sullivant art on the Filboid Studge blog.
See more Sullivant art at Uncle Eddie’s Theory Corner here and here.
Here’s an example I scanned of Foxy Grandpa from 1904 by Bunny (Carl Edward Schultze).
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Click here to read more examples of Foxy Grandpa at Barnacle Press.
Click here to read more about Carl Edward Schultze at The Stripper’s Guide.
Click here to read more about Carl Edward Schultze at lambiek.net.
Click here to read more about Foxy Grandpa at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.