Category Archives: COMICS

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

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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.

HEY! KIDS! COMICS! Kevin Cannon’s Armitage Shanks in An A-FLARE to Remember: June 12th, 2008

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Featured item: My friend Kevin Cannon just posted a wonderful little comic of his character Armitage Shanks that he made on five trading cards to be given away at this year’s FallCon. Click the image to view the comic.

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

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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.

Cute li’l guy of the month of May update

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We have a frontrunner. With two cute li’l votes, Skritch has taken the lead!

#30: skritch

Skritch says: “Sob! Youse all don’ really like me, doos youse? Ise just a sad li’l bit o’ fluff. Boo hoo!”

Two other li’l guys are in the running also with one vote each…

#31: zeezil

Zeezil says nothing, as he doesn’t talk. He does giggle though, a giggle so quiet it is completely drowned out by a breeze passing by.

#32: pip the purple pig

Pip says: “If elected, I will ride down a very big hill on one greased roller skate!”

Go here to review all of the candidates for May and vote for your favorite cute li’l guy. Please do your civic duty!

You’re also encouraged to cheer on your favorite cute li’l guy in the comments.

Polls close end of day Thursday, June 5th.

cute li’l guy for may update

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We have a frontrunner. With two cute li’l votes, Skritch has taken the lead!

#30: skritch

Skritch says: “Sob! Youse all don’ really like me, doos youse? Ise just a sad li’l bit o’ fluff. Boo hoo!”

Two other li’l guys are in the running also with one vote each…

#31: zeezil

Zeezil says nothing, as he doesn’t talk. He does giggle though, a giggle so quiet it is completely drowned out by a breeze passing by.

#32: pip the purple pig

Pip says: “If elected, I will ride down a very big hill on one greased roller skate!”

Go here to review all of the candidates for May. Please do your civic duty!

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll.

You’re also encouraged to cheer on your favorite cute li’l guy in the comments.

Polls close end of day Thursday, June 5th.

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

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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

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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.