Here’s Grandpa reminding the boys that he is one dangerous son of a bitch in another example I scanned of Foxy Grandpa from 1906 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.
Here’s an example I scanned of Foxy Grandpa from 1904 by Bunny (Carl Edward Schultze).
Click the image to view the full strip.
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.
Here’s an example I scanned of Foxy Grandpa from 1905 by Bunny (Carl Edward Schultze). In spite of being one of the best known comics of its era according to Don Markstein’s Toonopedia, looking at Amazon it appears that there hasn’t been a reprint book of Foxy Grandpa since 1916.
Click the image to view the full strip.
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.
Here’s an example I scanned of Glad Rags, the Corpulent Tramp by William F. Marriner and How Would You Like To Be John? by an unknown artist from 1905. Can anyone out there identify the artist of the John strip? If so, please let us know in the comments. Omne-bo-point?
UPDATE: Cole Johnson identified the artist of How Would You Like To Be John? as J.A. Lemon. Thanks, Cole!
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Click here to read about William F. Marriner at lambiek.net.
Here’s a wonderfully animated example I scanned of Gus Mager’s Hawkshaw the Detective. See previous entries I’ve made about Mager here. Notice how much the art looks like a Rudolph Dirks’ Katzenjammer Kids strip? That’s because Mager was Dirks’ assistant.
Can anyone out there name all the characters in the footer bar?
Note that this strip contains offensive racial depictions, as was typical of the comic strips of the era… if you are deeply offended by that sort of thing, you may not want to view it.
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See examples of Mager’s Hawkshaw the Detective on Barnacle Press here.
See examples of Mager’s Monks on Barnacle Press here.
Read more about Hawkshaw the Detective on Don Markstein’s Toonopedia here.
Jason Chatfield was nice enough to send me some rare scans to share with you all of a strip I was previously unaware of, but which is the longest running comic strip in Australian History, Ginger Meggs. Here’s what Jason has to say about the strip:
Ginger Meggs is the longest running comic strip in Australian History, and the longest running comic strip character internationally, after Schultz, Watterson,MacNelly etc. stopped drawing their respective strips. The strip has had five artists now, myself the fifth as of the last couple of months.
The two strips attached are from the Sun Herald in Sydney – one is from 1921, in a strip where Meggs first appeared called “Us Fellers” drawn by Megg’s creator, James “Jimmy” Bancks. The other is from 1951, a year before he died and passed the strip on to Ron Vivian.
Enjoy!
Thanks much for sharing these, Jason!
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Here’s a wonderfully funny strip I scanned titled Majic Pictures and Cut-Outs by Prof. Bughouse by an unknown artist from 1905. If you can identify the artist, please let me know… his signature is in the lower right panel.
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UPDATE: Troylloyd in the comments pointed out something obvious I forgot to mention… the cartoonist’s last name signed in the last panel appears to be Anderson. He also pointed out that there was a Professor Bughouse strip by John A. Lemon in 1904, which is likely to be related to this feature. Thanks, Troylloyd!
Here’s an early (September 1904) example of rarely-reprinted but excellent cartoonist, Gus Mager. He was best known for his strips Sherlocko the Monk and Hawkshaw the Detective, and was also an assistant to Rudolph Dirks on the Captain and the Kids. His “o” ending names for his monkey characters (Sherlocko, Watso, Groucho, etc.) inspired the Marx Brothers names.
See more of Mager’s Monks on Barnacle Press here.
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Here’s a Rudolph Dirks Katzenjammer Kids strip I scanned from May 6th, 1906 (with a delightful header by Sherlocko the Monk cartoonist Gus Mager). Watch as the Kids bravely rescue the Captain from certain doom so they will still have him around to torture.
Please note that this strip contains offensive racial depictions, common to strips of the era. If this sort of thing offends you, you may not want to view it.
Go here to see more Katzenjammer Kids strips on this site.
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Here’s what Don Markstein’s Toonopedia has to say about the Katzenjammers.
Click here to go to the Barnacle Press collection of Katzenjammer Kids strips.
Read about the Katzenjammer Kids on Wikipedia.
Click here to the Toonopedia entry on the Katzenjammer Kids.
Here’s a thoroughly crumbled Rudolph Dirks Katzenjammer Kids strip I scanned from August 9th, 1903.
Please note that this strip contains offensive racial depictions… if that sort of thing offends you, you may not want to view it.
Go here to see more Katzenjammer Kids strips on this site.
Click the image to view the full strip.
Here’s what Don Markstein’s Toonopedia has to say about the Katzenjammers.
Click here to go to the Barnacle Press collection of Katzenjammer Kids strips.
Read about the Katzenjammer Kids on Wikipedia.
Click here to the Toonopedia entry on the Katzenjammer Kids.