Tuesday, March 17, 2020

 

Obscurity of the Day: Little Coronations at Home




Frank Leet, the yeoman of the NEA bullpen gang, produced the weekday series Little Coronations at Home, for publication between about May and June 1914. As much as I like to offer exact dates, that's the best I can do with the NEA offerings of these early years because (a) the papers that took the NEA service published stuff as and when they liked, and (b) the NEA archives at Ohio State University are a mess for these early years of the service, and unless I missed it, this series was MIA.

The Wichita Beacon published all their installments of this series in June 1914. 


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This series originally ran in 1911, to coincide with big news occasion of King George V's coronation on 22 June that year.
It ran in the Scripps paper The Tacoma Times from 20 May to June 19, though the last episode, the one you show at the top today, was titled "THRILLS OF AN AIRSHIP RIDE WITHOUT THE PERILS."
 
Allan! Where are you? Are you all right? You've been MIA for three days now. With the end of the world on its way, we want to keep everyone accounted for. It's important that nobody in the Strip Community is snatched away. Please speak up! Or bark! Or something!
 
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Monday, March 16, 2020

 

Jeffrey Lindenblatt's Paper Trends: The Three Hundred For 1980 -- The Rankings

The paper loss between 1979 and 1980 was not as bad as the previous year; we lost information on 3 papers – Circleville Herald (OH), Kane Republican (PA) and Taylor Daily News (TX) but the two papers from Vancouver, the Sun and the Province, returned so we lost only one paper making the total for this year 289 papers.

The Top 4 strips stay the same even through Doonesbury gained 15 more papers since last year. Peanuts still keeps the number one spot gaining six more papers to a high of 197; maybe next year it will pass the magic 200 mark. Hagar the Horrible gained another 13 papers pushing it into the top 5. Family Circus moved from 15th position to 11th position, one spot behind the king of the panels Dennis the Menace. One rookie and one new strip entered the Top 30. Star Wars entered the Top 30 at position 21 but we know that in the near future it will fall out of the Top 30. The other new strip entering the Top 30 is Marmaduke, gaining four new papers. Falling out of the Top 30 are Winnie the Pooh, Short Ribs and Tiger. Here are the complete results:

Title Place Movement +/- Papers Total Papers
Peanuts 1 Same Plus 6 197
Blondie 2 Same Minus 1 190
Beetle Bailey 3 Same Plus 4 175
Doonesbury 4 Same Plus 15 112
Hagar the Horrible 5 Up 5 Plus 13 99
Wizard of Id 6 Up 1 Plus 8 96
Andy Capp 7 Down 2 None 95
B.C. 8 Down 1 Plus 3 91
Frank and Ernest 9 Down 3 None 89
Dennis the Menace 10 Down 3 Minus 6 82
Family Circus 11 Up 4 Plus 12 81
Born Loser 11 Same Minus 1 81
Mary Worth 13 Same Plus 2 80
Hi and Lois 14 Same Plus 1 76
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith 15 Down 3 Minus 5 74
Nancy 16 Same Minus 4 62
Shoe 17 Plus 9 Plus 11 59
Rex Morgan 18 Same Plus 1 58
Amazing Spider-Man 19 Plus 3 Plus 1 55
Alley Oop 20 Down 2 Minus 6 51
Archie 21 Down 3 Minus 7 50
Bugs Bunny 21 Same Minus 5 50
Dick Tracy 21 Plus 1 Minus 4 50
Star Wars 21 Rookie Rookie 50
Winthrop 25 Plus 5 Plus 4 49
Berry’s World 26 Down 9 Minus 12 48
Marmaduke 26 Entering Plus 4 48
Steve Canyon 26 Down 4 Minus 6 48
Eek and Meek 29 Down 4 Minus 2 47
Priscilla's Pop 30 Minus 4 Minus 3 45

The rest:

43 – Funny Winkerbean (+3), Tiger (-2)
 42 – Gasoline Alley (+2)
 39 – Tank McNamera (0)
 38 – For Better or For Worse (R), Heathcliff (+2), Judge Parker (+1), Short Ribs (-9)
 37 – Buz Sawyer (-5), Herman (3)
 36 – Tumbleweeds (-2)
 34 – Captain Easy (-4)
 32 – Ziggy (+9)
 31 – Funny Business (-3), Winnie the Pooh (-15)
 30 – Our Broading House (-8)
 29 – Apartment 3-G (0)
 28 – Redeye (-2)
 27 – Small Society (3), They’ll Do It Every Time (-9)
 25 – Cathy (+3), Mark Trail (+1), Phantom (+2), Side Glances (-1)
 24 – Broom Hilda (+1), Donald Duck (-1)
 23 – World's Greatest Superheroes (-11)
 22 – Dunagin’s People (-7), Heart of Juliet Jones (-1), John Darling (R), Latigo (R), Steve Roper and Mike Nomad (-4)
 21 – Crock (-2), Garfield (+7), Lockhorns (+4)
 20 – Graffiti (+3), Grin and Bear It (-4), Kerry Drake (0)
 18 – Hazel (-2)
16 – Better Half (-2), Momma (-1), Ryatts (-1), Zoonies (0)
 15 – Love Is (+2), Miss Peach (-6)
 14 – Fred Bassett (+1), Rip Kirby (-1)
 13 – Buck Rogers (R), Henry (0), Levy’s Law (R), Mr. Tweedy (-1)
 12 – Star Trek (R), Winnie Winkle (+1)
 11 – Agatha Crumm (-4), Ben Wicks (+2), Brenda Starr (0), The Flintstones (-2), Gil Thorp (+1), Incredible Hulk (-6), Little Orphan Annie (+4), Sam & Silo (-3), Scoops (-5)
 10 – Dondi (-1), Joe Palooka (-1), Moose Miller (0), Motley’s Crew (+1)
 9 – Catfish (+1), Charmers (-4), Conan the Barbarian (-3), Ferd’nand (-2), Girls (-1), Laff-A-Day (-5), Nubbin (-1)
 8 – Animal Crackers (-1), Drabble (R), Encyclopedia Brown (-2), Mutt and Jeff (-3), Pavlov (+3), Ponytail (0), Prime Time (R), Quincy (1), Ripley’s Believe It or Not (-4)
 7 – Amy (+2), Gordo (0), Guindon (+4), Inside Woody Allen (-4), Mickey Mouse (0), Moon Mullins (0), No Comment (R), Sporting Life (-4), Wright Angles (0)
 6 – Dr. Smock (-1), Dupont Circle (R), Lolly (0), Trudy (0), Wee Pals (-1)
 5 – Albert Herbert Hawkins (R), Bringing Up Father (0), Eb and Flo (-2), Flash Gordon (0), Gumdrop (0), Little Woman (-1), Outcasts (+2), Rivets (0), Scamp (0), Shambles (R), Smith Family (-1), There Outta Be A Law (-2)
 4 - According to Guiness, A Little Leary, Belvedere, Boomer, Copps and Robberts, Dr. Kildare, Frontiers of Science, Mr. Abernathy, Rick O' Shay, Sergeant Renfrew, Strictly Business
 3 - Big George, Boner's Ark, Brother Juniper, Flop Family, Good News and Bad News, Hap Hazard, Johnny Wonder, Laugh Time, Luther, Pixies, Simpkins, Smart Chart, Spiltsville, Star Hawks, This Funny World, Tucker, Zeus
 2 - Citizen Smith, Dropout, Freddy, Howie, Kelly, Koky, Mandrake the Magician, Men and Women, Modesty Blaise, Murphy's Law, Popeye, Rooftop O’ Toole, Spare Time Spanish, Sports Quiz, Time's Out, Trim's Arena, Woody's World, Word-A-Day, Wordplay
 1 - Alex in Wonderland, As You Were, Basil, Benchwarmer’s Sports Trivia, Brick Bradford, Byrds, Cartoon Kitchen, Castaways, Ching Chow, Country Parson, Don Q, Father Dickens, Health Capsules, Hieroglyphics, Homer’s Groaners, How To Create A Lined-Out Comic Strip, Hubert, Idea Chaser, In the World, It Happened in Canada, Keeping Up, Laffbreak, Life With the Robinson, Mark Trail Outdoor Tips, My Grandma, Norbert, Our Fascinating Earth, Playing Better Golf With Jack Nicklaus, Pop Idols, Pot Shots, Queenie, Return With Us, Rocket Shots, Secret Agent Corrigan, Selling Short, Sorehead, Sportsman's Digest, Stan Smith Tennis Class, Strahle’s Bailiwick, Tale Feathers, Today's World, Travles with Farley, Wine Set, Wright's View, You're Getting Closer

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Would you consider Alex in Wonderland an obscure comic? Would love to see it showcased. Thanks.
 
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