Herriman Saturday: June 5 1910

 

June 5 1910 -- A bittersweet announcement goes with this post. As we come to June 1910 in our complete reprinting of Herriman's LA Examiner cartoons, we have reached his final month with the paper. Yes, believe it or not, Herriman won't be at the Examiner for the Fight of the Century on July 4. Instead he'll be in New York starting a little strip called The Family Upstairs before the month is out, and finally carving out his exalted place in the history of newspaper cartooning.

This Stripper's Guide series has been running since June 2 2007, believe it or not. It has taken us a decade and a half to chronicle all of Herriman's (major) cartoons for the Examiner from 1906 to 1910, roughly three times as long as it took Herriman to produce them. 

There are now just two more cartoons left. Be here for all of 'em!

Today's cartoon takes yet another look at the upcoming Fight of the Century. Here's the real question, though: would Herriman have had the guts to depict Jim Jeffries in a tutu if George wasn't on his way out of town?  I dunno, but I'm betting that prizefighters like Jeffries don't have highly developed humorous bones.