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 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 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.
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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Our friends at the fantastic Barnacle Press blog just posted a bunch of examples of this strip the other day, so I thought I’d get to posting the one I scanned. They posted this one also, but it isn’t a gloriously mutilated example like the ones you’ve come to expect from the STWALLSKULL blog. Without further ado, I give you Betsy Bouncer and Her Doll from 1904 by Tom Tucker.
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Here’s an example I scanned of The Jungle Twins from 1905 by ?. I don’t know anything about this strip or the artist who made it… anyone out there have any ideas or guesses? Please let us know in the comments.
UPDATE: Cole Johnson identified this strip in the comments as being by Carl Anderson. Thanks, Cole!
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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.
