Herriman One-Shots: November 3 1901

 

This Herriman one-shot from an early McClure section I long expected to find was actually a series, since the fellow's name is so very unusual. However, if Herriman produced more than one episode of Herr Kronsestiner it seems that the McClure Syndicate did not see fit to print it. 

In this very early Herriman production less to be said about the gag the better. What I'd like to draw attention to is that in Herriman's early colour work he seems to like adding grey washes. Here it is fine, indicating that Kronsestiner has turned out the lights. But other early Herriman efforts use it for  no good reason and it leaves his work looking murky and amateurish. Thankfully he soon cured himself of that habit, or had an editor tell him to quit it.