Saturday, February 11, 2012
Herriman Saturday
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Friday, February 10, 2012
Ink-Slinger Profiles: Greeley Hall
Greeley W. Hall was born in Arkansas on February 15, 1924, according to the 1930 U.S. Federal Census and the Social Security Death Index. In the census, he was the second of three children born to William and Erma. They lived in Little Rock, Arkansas at 1011 Dennison. His father was a supervisor in the insurance industry.
According to the U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, Hall enlisted on September 24, 1943 in Little Rock. He had four years of high school and was single without dependents. The State Press (Arkansas) announced his new comic strip on February 14, 1947.
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The strip appeared fives times, beginning on February 28 and then ending on April 4, 1947. Ten years later the State Press published this item on July 19, 1957:
Mr. and Mrs. Greeley Hall and Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Hall and their three sons are visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.T. Hall, 520 East 20th st. Greeley Hall is a former cartoonist of the State Press. He is now employed with the Navy department of Washington, D.C. as an artist. He is a graduate from Dunbar hi school and junior college. Calvin Hall is an accountant with the Veterans Insurance in Washington, D.C.
The Bureau of Ships Journal (1961) of the U.S. Navy Department listed Hall as a staff designer. He held the same position on the publication, Naval Ship Systems Command Technical News (1963-1965), of the U.S. Naval Ship Systems Command.
According to the Social Security Death Index, Hall passed away on February 1, 2006 in Washington, D.C. The U.S. Veterans Gravesites, at Ancestry.com, recorded him as a corporal in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. He was buried at Arkansas State Veterans Cemetery in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Thursday, February 09, 2012
Obscurity of the Day: Breezy
Breezy was an unassuming wise guy kid strip with little special slant to its black audience noticeable. Certainly Breezy was a bit more jivey than your typical kid-strip kid, and he wore that high style zoot hat, but basically just an everyday kid who could be of any race.
Syndicated by Continental Features, it's earliest known appearance is in the Atlanta World on August 1 1943. The strip ran in quite a few black papers over the years, and may have been produced steadily right through early 1948, the latest I've encountered it.
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Breezy ran in the Florida Times until February 11, 1956; by then it had become a two-tier weekly strip. I don't know whether it continued on in syndication after that date
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: 3/11/2014 2:51 PM
: 3/11/2014 2:51 PM
I am not aware of a newspaper titled "Florida Times". I don't think you mean the Florida Times-Union, since they would never carry a strip like Breezy. Perhaps you mean the South Florida Times?
--Allan
--Allan
I've found three periods of Breezy -- the single-tier, then the four tier, then the two tier. The two tiers mostly seem to be edited-down versions of the four tiers. The problem for me is that so far, I've only found one actual four tier, so I'm not sure where they mostly ran yet. I find the two-tier reruns until at least 1960.
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Wednesday, February 08, 2012
Obscurity of the Day: Spoffin'
Tapley produced Spoffin', whatever the heck the title means, for the New York Amsterdam News from August 29 1942 to August 19 1944. Before 1944 it was a regular weekly feature, in 1944 it ran sporadically. The middle two panels above are good examples of the more permissive attitude the black papers had about subject matter -- white papers would never allow a cartoon that referred to women's breasts or to defecation, even somewhat veiled references as above.
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Tuesday, February 07, 2012
Obscurity of the Day: Jim Steele
The black papers had one heck of a time with continuity strips. Even the major papers with national audiences could not seem to manage to run continuity strips on a regular basis or in proper order. I don't know if it was faulty distribution, lateness paying syndicate bills or what, but trying to follow a story in any of these strips, and there were others in addition to Jive and Steele, was a pretty hopeless task. It's a wonder they gained any popularity at all. What a treasure it would be to find a nice run of proof sheets for strips like these.
Jim Steele's earliest appearance that I've yet found is in the Philadelphia Tribune on April 24 1943. It ran through the auspices of Continental Features and its latest known appearances are in 1947.
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Looks like he was influenced by Milt Caniff. The one character even looks a little like the Dragon Lady.
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Monday, February 06, 2012
Obscurity of the Day: Do's and Don'ts
In any case, whether 'Stann Pat' is Tapley or not, it's an interesting feature. Black papers made a habit of trying to 'improve the race' with both cartoon and prose admonishments about good behavior. The case was made over and over in the pages of the black press that the race would more quickly gain the respect and rights they wanted if they had good manners and behaved well in public. Do's and Don'ts was one of a handful of cartoon features that tried to drive this message home.
Do's and Don'ts was syndicated by Continental Features and the earliest appearance I find is August 30 1943 in the Atlanta World. The feature appears sporadically (and most likely late) in its pages until 1948. A very similar feature, also bylined by Stann Pat, was Your Public Conduct; it ran for a few months in 1944 -- it may just be an alternate title for Do's and Don'ts.
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Sunday, February 05, 2012
Jim Ivey's Sunday Comics
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I loved Thoughts of Man. I think it is one of the reasons I love quotes so much and change them daily [I post quotes below my e-mail signature].
It's too bad there isn't a market for them or a website...
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It's too bad there isn't a market for them or a website...
