Saturday, November 24, 2007
Herriman Saturday
These cartoons ran on November 13-15 1906. On the 13th we have a caricature of an infamous bookmaker of the day, on the 14th an account of a night of boxing. On the 15th we have a cartoon about Count Boni de Castellane who was going through a sensational divorce at the time. Here's a site with lots of info on Boni.The bottom two cartoons were in pretty bad shape; I had to do some pretty major surgery to get them reasonably presentable. Chalk up any bad drawing to me, not ol' Garge.
Labels: Herriman's LA Examiner Cartoons
Comments:
That exaggerated foreshortening in the first picture looks odd. Flagg's Uncle Sam was a World War 1 recruitment poster and thus a few years later. Anything photographic would have shown a much smaller hand. What would have been the standard for such a thing at this time? I really can't think of anything analogous off the top of my head.
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