Crumbling Paper: School Days – Half the World are Nuts and the Other Half are Squirrels

Here’s another example I scanned of Sallie Slick and Her Surprising Aunt Amelia by Jean Mohr from 1902. Aunt Amelia is rather like the female Foxy Grandpa.

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Crumbling Paper: Sallie Slick and Her Surprising Aunt Amelia (strip#1)

Posted on June 19, 2008 by STWALLSKULL

Here’s an example I scanned of Sallie Slick and Her Surprising Aunt Amelia from 1902 by Jean Mohr. According to Lambiek, Jean Mohr was one of the earliest female cartoonists. A little more context for Jean Mohr can be found in this article by Trina Robbins, author of numerous books on women in comics.

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Crumbling Paper: Keeping Up With the Joneses – Handsome Zephyr Pull-overs

Posted on June 18, 2008 by STWALLSKULL

Here’s a funny and gorgeously designed 1934 example I scanned of Keeping Up With The Joneses with the header strip Holly of Hollywood by Arthur R. “Pop” Momand.

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Holy cow! Searching for more examples, I ran across a whole free book of dailies from 1920 on Google Book Search! It is the first volume aka series of the Cupples and Leon Keeping Up With the Joneses books.

Click here to read a number of early examples of Keeping Up With the Joneses at Barnacle Press.

Here is a large scan of an original Keeping Up With the Joneses strip from kochcomicart.com.

Click here to read about Arthur R. “Pop” Momand at lambiek.net.

Click here to read more about Keeping Up With The Joneses at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

Click here to read Arthur “Pop” Momand’s obituary at the New York Times. The strip actually ended in 1938, not 1945 as claimed in the article according to the authoritative Allan Holtz at The Stripper’s Guide.

Crumbling Paper: Uncle Jasper

Posted on June 17, 2008 by STWALLSKULL

Here’s an example I scanned of the bottom half of a strip by Hy Gage. I don’t know the title of the strip, so we’ll call it Uncle Jasper after the name on the bag in the first panel for the time being. Can anyone illuminate us on the name of this comic strip?

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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 about Hy Gage at lambiek.net.

Crumbling Paper: Blondie

Posted on June 16, 2008 by STWALLSKULL

Here’s an example I scanned from November 15, 1931 of Blondie, along with the header strip The Family Foursome by Chic Young. The early Blondie strips that I have read from before it became a formulaic routine of sandwich and angry boss strips are quite fun and charming. The strip premiered in September 1930, so this is a little over a year into it.

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.

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See Blondie Gets Married from the Library of Congress.

See a round-up of articles on Blondie’s 75th anniversary at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read some examples of The Affairs of Jane by Chic Young at The Stripper’s Guide.

Click here to read about Chic Young at lambiek.net.

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

Go to the official Blondie website.

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

Posted on June 12, 2008 by STWALLSKULL

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.

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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.

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

Posted on June 4, 2008 by STWALLSKULL

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

Posted on June 3, 2008 by STWALLSKULL

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.

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Read another Simon Simple strip at The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.

Click here to read about Ed Carey at lambiek.net.

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Category Archives: Ye Olde Comics and Stuffe

Crumbling Paper: School Days – Half the World are Nuts and the Other Half are Squirrels

Crumbling Paper: Joe Jinks

Crumbling Paper: Sallie Slick and Her Surprising Aunt Amelia (strip #2)

Crumbling Paper: Sallie Slick and Her Surprising Aunt Amelia (strip#1)

Crumbling Paper: Keeping Up With the Joneses – Handsome Zephyr Pull-overs

Crumbling Paper: Uncle Jasper

Crumbling Paper: Blondie

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

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

Crumbling Paper: Simon Tackles the Truant Officer’s Job