CRUMBLING PAPER: Winnie Winkle, The Breadwinner (strip #2)

Posted on February 23, 2009 by STWALLSKULL

Here’s another example I scanned of Winnie Winkle, The Breadwinner, with the footer strip Looie Blooie, Attorney at Law, from 1933 by Martin Branner.

Click the image to view the full strip.

Click here to read more examples of Winnie Winkle at Barnacle Press.

See another Winnie Winkle Sunday strip here.

Click here to read an old article on Martin Branner at the Stripper’s Guide here.

Click here to read Louie the Lawyer by Martin Branner at the Stripper’s Guide here.

Click here to read about Martin Branner at lambiek.net.

Click here to read about Winnie Winkle at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

See some interesting Winnie Winkle original art here.

CRUMBLING PAPER: Winnie Winkle, The Breadwinner (strip #1)

Posted on February 17, 2009 by STWALLSKULL

Here’s an example I scanned of Winnie Winkle, The Breadwinner, with the footer strip Looie Blooie, Attorney at Law, from 1933 by Martin Branner.

Click the image to view the full strip.

Click here to read more examples of Winnie Winkle at Barnacle Press.

See another Winnie Winkle Sunday strip here.

Click here to read an old article on Martin Branner at the Stripper’s Guide here.

Click here to read Louie the Lawyer by Martin Branner at the Stripper’s Guide here.

Click here to read about Martin Branner at lambiek.net.

Click here to read about Winnie Winkle at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

See some interesting Winnie Winkle original art here.

CRUMBLING PAPER: Herr Spiegleburger by Carl Anderson

Posted on February 16, 2009 by STWALLSKULL

Here’s an example I scanned of Herr Spiegelburger aka Herr Spiegelberger from May 7, 1905 by Carl Anderson. Anderson later went on to create the wordless strip Henry, for which he is best-known.

Click the image to view the full strip.

Please be advised that like many of the comic strips of the era, it contains potentially offensive ethnic depictions. If this sort of thing offends you, you may not want to view it.

Click here to read about Carl Anderson at lambiek.net.

Here is a Carl Anderson fan site with a number of Henry strips.

Somewhat improbably, Henry still exists as a King Features comic strip to this day. I don’t recall ever seeing it in a modern newspaper during my lifetime.

Click here to read more about Carl Anderson’s Henry at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

You can find a couple complete Henry comic books here and here.

CRUMBLING PAPER: Barney Google by Billy DeBeck

Posted on January 29, 2009 by STWALLSKULL

Here’s a typically funny example I scanned of Barney Google, with header strip Parlor, Bedroom and Sink, which appears to have turned into Bunky eventually, from November 23, 1930 (the depths of the Great Depression) by the great Billy DeBeck. Hard to believe no one is reprinting Barney Google yet… it is truly one of the great strips of the last century. I was thinking I had heard about a reprint project for this a while ago, but if I did, damned if I can find any mention of it now. If there is a strip more deserving of a complete reprinting, I don’t know what it is.

Click the image to view the full strip.

Here are examples of Married Life by Billy DeBeck, courtesy of Barnacle Press.

Here are some assorted strips by Billy DeBeck at Barnacle Press.

Here are some Barney Google/Snuffy Smith strips courtesy of John Adcock at Yesterday’s Papers.

Here’s an old article about Billy DeBeck at The Stripper’s Guide.

Here’s another an old article about Billy DeBeck at The Stripper’s Guide.

Click here to read more about Billy DeBeck at lambiek.net.

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

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

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

Here’s a self-portrait of DeBeck (among other cartoonist self-portraits) at entrecomics.com.

Here’s a gallery of fantastic Billy DeBeck sketches at comicartfans.com. Note that there is a lot of other fantastic Billy DeBeck art on that site as well if you do a search for his name (like this one for example… and this one)… for some reason, they unfortunately don’t make it so you can copy and paste a search there.

Here is a bio of Billy DeBeck courtesy of Sekvenskonst

Here is the Wikipedia entry on Billy DeBeck.

Here is Time Magazine’s obituary of Billy DeBeck.

CRUMBLING PAPER: Cicero Sapp

Posted on December 19, 2008 by STWALLSKULL

A little ways to go to New Years still, but here’s an example I scanned of Cicero Sapp from December 31, 1922 by Fred Locher.

Click the image to view the full strip.

Click here to read about Fred Locher at lambiek.net.

CRUMBLING PAPER: Taking a look at Newspaperarchive.org… The New Pittsburg Press Staff Includes the World’s Greatest Humorists Cartoonists Writers and Illustrators

Posted on December 18, 2008 by STWALLSKULL

Allan Holtz at the excellent blog The Stripper’s Guide (which, if you follow this blog, you have probably noticed I link to it almost every day I post) had a special offer the other day… he was giving away three free month-long memberships to newspaperarchive.com. Anyhow, I wrote him quick and I got one. Thanks, Allan!

I was just exploring it a little bit, and found the below article from the June 1, 1920 New Castle News. Ironically, the two issues of the New Castle News that I just explored had the comics cut out of them (other than George McManus’s Bringing Up Father, which was on it’s own page). I would guess most of the New Castle News editions on the site are that way if some of them are… presumably a comics fan or comic strip dealer “strip mined” the comics out of them before they were scanned, which is not at all an uncommon scenario (I would approximate that 60-70% of the bound books of newspapers that come up on Ebay have been cannibalized this way). Sunday editions appear to be entirely missing.

Strangely, this article seems to be referring to the comics section of The Pittsburg Press… I am not sure what the relationship was to The New Castle News. This is most likely an ad for a paper owned by the same company, I think.

Anyhow, the cannibals missed this article, so, enjoy! Click the image to download a pdf of the page. It is titled The New Pittsburg Press Staff Includes the World’s Greatest Humorists Cartoonists Writers and Illustrators. It has art by and photos of Herriman, McManus, Opper, Hershfield, Tad and many others… although, as I said, the quality is absolutely terrible.

The papers at newspaperarchive.com are simultaneously fascinating and heartbreaking… there is so much to see, but the artwork and text is all converted to vector art (and in most or all cases, they were first mutilated into microfilm or microfiche, and then to vector art)… the quality is abysmal, but the strips can usually be deciphered for their codified meaning with some patience, like the dead sea scrolls.

CRUMBLING PAPER: Bub, He’s Always to Blame

Posted on December 15, 2008 by STWALLSKULL

Here’s an example I scanned of Bub, He’s Always to Blame from 1905 by Everett Lowry. This strip would appear to be very influenced by Swinnerton, specifically his Little Jimmy (which I’ve featured here previously).

Click the image to view the full strip.

Click here to read Everett Lowry’s Mr. Bones in these Chicago Tribune Sundays at Barnacle Press. These also include some amazing, experimental proto-jam comics called Crazy Quilt, done with the Tribune’s staff of cartoonists at the time (which included Gasoline Alley‘s creator, genius Frank King). Don’t miss these!

Here is another example of Everett Lowry’s Bub, He’s Always to Blame at Shorpy.

Click here to read more about Everett Lowry at lambiek.net.

CRUMBLING PAPER: Billy Bragg

Posted on November 19, 2008 by STWALLSKULL

Here’s an example I scanned of Billy Bragg by C.W. Kahles (the man who brought us the previously posted Billy Bounce strips). I don’t know the year on this one. I don’t believe the prolific Mr. Kahles ever did a comic strip that didn’t feature a protagonist with an alliterative name describing their character.