Stripper's Guide

 Those of you with a long memory might remember an announcement back in April 2022 that I was working on a new website for Stripper's Gu...

  The first time I ran one of these Moving Picture cards, which Hearst papers gave away in 1906, I asked readers to explain to me how the m...

 Big announcement Monday, please mark your calendars, call in sick to work, and get a sitter for the kids.  I know the anticipation is killi...

  Here's a comic strip by A.T. Crichton that ran in the February 7 1897 edition of the New York Journal . Not much to the gag, I guess,...

 On Monday!  Can't you just feel the anticipation? Like waiting for that (blecch!) ketchup to come out of the bottle? Like smelling a ne...

  Here to close out our mad professor week is Professor Knix , a Jimmy Swinnerton short run series that appeared in the Hearst Sunday comics...

  Norman Ritchie (who signed himself just 'Norman') was the longstanding editorial cartoonist of the Boston Post . When comic strips...

 It's Mad Professor week here on Stripper's Guide, featuring three, count 'em, three, wacky genius inventors. Leading off with ....

  Here's an Outcault postcard from the J. Ottmann Company, published in 1905. My batting average on this card is a perfect .000. I don...

  Here's a collection of gag cartoons that ran in the New York Evening Journal on April 14 1904. Starting at upper left and going clock...

  Hobo and tramp comics were quite popular in the early years of the last century, then went through a fallow period. But they came in for a...

  Robert Ripley didn't know what he was unleashing on the newspaper world when he created his Believe It Or Not series, offering reader...

  Little Abe Corncob was yet another Katzenjammer Kid rip-off, but of the low rent sort who couldn't even muster a brother to assist h...

  Here's a Garfield card, designated P7520, from Argus Communications. Published in the mid-80s, as if that were much of a mystery given...

  Well, it's about doggone time that One-Shot Wonder Saturdays finally heard from the inimitable Eddie Eksergian , the rootinest, tootin...

  When I think of Walt Disney and marketing, naturally my thoughts turn to Mickey Mouse watches and all the other untold bazillions of produ...

1928 Thomas Jefferson Machamer was born on July 5, 1898, in Holdredge, Nebraska, according to his World War I and II draft cards. The 1900 U...

  Smilin' Jack , the unique flying strip with a roll call of memorable characters and zany plotlines, was a fixture of the Chicago Tribu...

  Time to inflict on you another postcard by Cobb Shinn. Here's a case where the cartoon, for all its faults, has a recognizeable subjec...

  A very special guest star makes an appearance in this one-shot strip by Carl Anderson. It ran in the New York Journal on January 24 1897.

  Hans and Gretchen ran in the Philadelphia Inquirer from September 23 to November 4 1906*. It's an odd strip on several counts. The s...

  Among the many comic strip series George Frink created for the Chicago Daily News was Buddy and Banty . At first glance it seems like ye...

  Mac Divot was a true original in newspaper comics; a serious continuity feature about a golfer. Golf was no stranger to comics at all -- ...