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.
Here’s an example I scanned of Foxy Grandpa by Bunny (Carl Edward Schultze). Boy, is this one bizarre… if you read only one Foxy Grandpa strip in your lifetime, make it this one.
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.
Above: A panel from one of The Cartoon Research Library’s examples of Norman E. Jennett’s The Monkeyshines of Marseleen, from their online Newspaper Cartoon Artists 1898-1909 exhibit. Click the image above to see the exhibit.
I’ve never visited The Cartoon Research Library at Ohio State University, but its existence makes me occasionally dream of living in Ohio. A while back they purchased Bill Blackbeard’s San Francisco Academy of Art collection of old newspaper comics, which is most likely the finest in the world. I keep hoping that one of these days they will start digitizing their collection and putting it all online. They have put some fantastic stuff online, though… here is list of most of their online exhibits:
Lyonel Feininger (Man, I love Feininger…)
The Yellow Kid
Tales of the Jungle Imps (Originals hand colored by Winsor McCay!)
Newspaper Cartoon Artists 1898-1909
Hale Scrapbook
Drawn on Stone
Ohio Cartoonists
The Opper Project
Thomas Nast
The Ohio State University Manga Collection
Preserving Cartoon Art
Pictured above: a panel from The Kin-Der Kids by Lyonel Feininger. Click the above image to visit The Cartoon Research Library’s Lyonel Feininger exhibit. Note that you can purchase a completeish book of Lyonel Feininger’s comic strip work for a pittance, which is decisive proof that we do indeed live in a wondrous world… here is a link for that:
The Comic Strip Art of Lyonel Feininger: The Kin-Der-Kids and Wee Willie Winkie’s World
Here’s an example I scanned of Foxy Grandpa from 1905 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 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).
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 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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