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Friday, March 10, 2023

Obscurity of the Day: Slang How It Looks

 

After stints at a number of papers in San Francisco and Chicago, including the Chicago Tribune, Pete Llanuza seems to have had a short stop-over at the Trib's sister paper, the New York Daily News. His only known cartoon series for them is the awkwardly titled Slang How It Looks, a small panel cartoon illustrating slang phrases taken literally. It only ran in the Sunday paper, and even then seems to have missed the occasional week. It ran from May 1 to July 10 1921.

If this was actually done while Llanuza was on staff at the Trib, it does not seem to have been used in the flagship paper.

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2 comments:

  1. Paul Di Filippo3/10/2023 6:33 PM

    An ancestor of Paul Coker's HORRIFYING CLICHES in MAD!

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  2. Mark Johnson3/11/2023 1:22 AM

    And way before that, Leet was doing the same thing, single column literal expressions, on the NEA syndicated ed page in ca. 1907. It's obviously a series, but if I recall right, they were just there, hanging out in the vicinity of Everett True or Mr. Skygack, without any title.

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