Saturday, August 21, 2010
Herriman Saturday
Labels: Herriman's LA Examiner Cartoons
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Do you have any information on a strips called Mom'n Pop/ The Newfangles. I picked up 4 years of it and cant find any info on it or the history behind it. I was drawn by Woods Cowan. Thanks -Steve
Loren Taylor created Mom 'n' Pop in 1924 and Wood Cowan took it over in 1928. The strip was renamed The Newfangles in 1932 and ended in 1936.
--Allan
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--Allan
Friday, August 20, 2010
Obscurity of the Day: Jennie and Jack, Also the Little Dog Jap
Jennie and Jack Also the Little Dog Jap ran in the Boston Herald Sunday comics section as a late entry in their third go-round of producing their own comics. The strip began on March 8 1908 and ended either on August 9 (end in the Boston Herald) or August 30 (end in some syndicated papers). As was usual with the Hays productions, the strips read more like storybooks than comic strips.
Thanks to Cole Johnson for the scan!
Labels: Obscurities
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Margaret Gebbie Hays was Grace Gebbie Wiederseim Drayton's sister; Mary A. Hays (later Mary Hays Huber) was Margaret's daughter.
http://lambiek.net/artists/d/drayton_g.htm
http://home.comcast.net/~bluepatch/Biographies/Grace_Drayton_web.htm
I have a particular interest in Mary Hays Huber, but it's taken me years to discover who she was. She did many holiday illustrations/designs for both the Gibson and Dennison companies, but she's very very rarely credited (I've seen one piece initialed "MH"). She also did a few "children's pages" for women's magazines; her name is more likely to appear on these.
Regards,
Elizabeth Hall
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http://lambiek.net/artists/d/drayton_g.htm
http://home.comcast.net/~bluepatch/Biographies/Grace_Drayton_web.htm
I have a particular interest in Mary Hays Huber, but it's taken me years to discover who she was. She did many holiday illustrations/designs for both the Gibson and Dennison companies, but she's very very rarely credited (I've seen one piece initialed "MH"). She also did a few "children's pages" for women's magazines; her name is more likely to appear on these.
Regards,
Elizabeth Hall
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Obscurity of the Day: Bibs 'n' Tucker
The strip is about a toddler, Bibs, and his dog Tucker. Since the strip ran only on rare occasions the gags and characters are pretty generic, the only hook being that Bibs wears a bib that seems to have the same over-starching problem as Dilbert's tie.
I'm only aware of the strip running on a few isolated occasions. It began sometime in 1955 and the last installment seems to have run on August 18 1957.
Anyone have a run of Daily News sections from the 1950s who can help out on confirming the start and end dates of these ROP features?
EDIT: Michael Vassallo says his first example is 3/20/55. Can anyone go back farther than that?
Labels: Obscurities
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I have some but have never come across this strip. What with this and my interest in Bumper to Bumper, I guess researching this paper when I am in New York is at the top of my list.
The Library of Congress has an original cartoon drawing by him from 1942 in the Art Wood Collection.
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Obscurity of the Day: Mister Rolly-Polly, The Man Who Tumbles Into Things
Thanks to Cole Johnson for the scan!
Labels: Obscurities
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Jim Ivey's Sunday Comics
