Wednesday, December 05, 2007

 

Obscurity of the Day: Mr. Stub


Here's the other temporary Sunday strip I mentioned in yesterday's post. Mr. Stub, aka Stub, aka Stubbs, ran April 20 - June 8 1913 in the St. Paul Pioneer Press. The cartoonist is Caine, who occasionally went by the nickname "Empty" Caine (M.T. Caine perhaps?). His cartoons were a constant feature of the Pioneer Press in the teens. I've never found his full name.

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# posted by Allan Holtz @ 9:28 AM
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It was Matthew T. Caine, according to the advertisement here:
Info from: Popular Mechanics (February 1913), p. 16, advertisement for Cartoons magazine, viewed online: http://books.google.com/books?id=9N0DAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA3-PA16&lpg=RA3-PA16&dq=%22caine%22+cartoonist+st.+paul+%22pioneer+press%22&source=bl&ots=jgIV47ZBB1&sig=Uec9-6EQDDipYqQ7ucn383pY89A&hl=en&ei=ZDCUTKLEOYSBlAermtypCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false, 09/17/2010
# posted by Anonymous Sara W. Duke : 9/17/2010 10:36 PM
 
Thanks Sara! There was a bonus, too -- they gave "French" of the Chicago Record-Herald a full name, George W. French. Hmmm, George W. Seems familiar somehow.

--Allan
# posted by Blogger Allan Holtz : 9/20/2010 5:27 PM
 
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