Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Mystery Cartoonist: Three Samples from 1914
Shoehorning an extra post in on Tuesday this week hoping SG readers can help me through what I think might just be a mental block.
As I'm slogging through my boxes of unsorted material trying to bring some semblance of order, I came upon these three strips, evidently clipped out of an August 1914 bound volume of some midwest paper (I can't narrow it down any farther based on these tearsheets).
The style seems familiar but unfortunately not singular enough for that "Aha!" moment for me. I thought H.T. Webster but no, I thought Maurice Ketten but no, none of them quite make sense. Can you help?!
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Out of interest, what's on the other side of these clippings? The little bits of text visible on the edges of these appear to be syndicated blurbs, as they show up in a bunch of papers of the (narrow) time period. I might be able to narrow things down if I could spot, say, a store's advertisement. It's obviously an evening paper, though, based on one blurb.
Mostly stock prices, a few ads indicate a midwest location. Since they would have been clipped out of my cache of bound volumes, there's a decent chance they were clipped from a Minneapolis volume, as I had stacks of them.
Got it. These are from the Minneapolis Journal. "The Morning Greeting" strip is from page 26 of the 8/7/1914 issue. "That Settles It" is on page 16 of the 8/17/1914 issue. "Five Minutes" is from page 14 of the 8/24/1914 issue. All of these are available on newspapers dot com.
Charles Bartholomew ("Bart") was The Journal's editorial cartoonist at the time. Does the style in the above strips match any of the dozen or so listed in American Newspaper Comics?
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