Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Dell Publishing's "The Funnies" Part 16
Here we are at our last post of The Funnies. We learned a bit about it in the process, though not the information I was hoping for. If anyone ever does come across any of this material appearing in a newspaper I'm still very interested, so don't keep it a secret! One more round of huzzahs for Cole Johnson who provided superb color photocopies of his issue of this rare series.
Today we have another batch of dailies. Two of interest; Peaches seems obviously an Art Helfant outing though credited to "R.A.W." And Jacky, the only strip in the section by Sidney Garber, someone I've never heard of.
Back to real newspaper comics starting tomorrow! There's no place like home...
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Sidney Garber is best known for being an animator for Fleischer - with work appearing in 1930-1932. He was born c1909, and died very young circa 1931.
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: 5/14/2008 7:01 AM
I found your direction cause there's a book of comic's history that took information from your blog. The name of the book is:
"Del Tebeo al Manga, una historia de los cómics #3". It's in spanish, but it's good.
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"Del Tebeo al Manga, una historia de los cómics #3". It's in spanish, but it's good.
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Dell Publishing's "The Funnies" Part 15
Cole Johnson's issue of The Funnies had a wide array of daily-style strips in addition to the Sunday-style strips. We'll cover the rest tomorrow, our last post on the subject.
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I've been loving all of these. Even the crummiest ones have more character than most strips today.
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# posted by : 5/13/2008 10:59 AM
: 5/13/2008 10:59 AM Monday, May 12, 2008
Dell Publishing's "The Funnies" Part 14
Winding down now on the second issue of The Funnies, here we get encores of Boody Rogers' Deadwood Gulch and VEP's Bush League Barry.Labels: Dell's The Funnies
Friday, May 09, 2008
Dell Publishing's "The Funnies" Part 13
Fair warning! If you read the three strips above you will feel like you've utterly wasted 30 seconds of your life.Sniffy we've seen already, it's by Glen Wood, and Colonel Knutt is another Courtney Dunkel strip. Both prove that good art does not save bad writing, even in pantomime.
Cookie Pushers is by Buford Tune. Tune was concurrently in the middle of a three year stint as the final cartoonist on Doings of the Duffs, and would later gain a measure of lasting success as the creator of Dotty Dripple, a strip that ran for 30 years. In this awful strip the 'gag' is actually self-contained in the final two panels, all the preamble signifying nothing. And the gag is such a clunker I bet even Pink Laffin would have rejected it.
The slang term "cookie pusher" at the time referred to a lazy person who curried favor by giving compliments (typically undeserved). Later on it morphed into a more specific term used as a pejorative for junior diplomats. Awful strips and an etymology lesson -- it's a bad day to visit the Stripper's Guide blog.
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Thursday, May 08, 2008
Dell Publishing's "The Funnies" Part 12
My Big Brudder is a Just Kids/Reg'lar Fellers knockoff, unsigned but most likely an Art Helfant production.Frosty Aire is by Joe Archibald, who had a vigorous, only semi-professional style. While his art wasn't going to win any awards, he was a pretty good writer. The gag here is surprisingly subtle considering the venue. Archibald kicked around with the smaller syndicates, mainly in the twenties. At the moment I happen to be trying to make sense of his panel cartoon Why Boys Leave Home. It was advertised only in the 1926 E&P listings as being from the Wheeler-Nicholson syndicate and credited to 'Davidson'. Yet the only examples of the strip I can find are from 1930, syndicated by McClure, and credited to Joe Archibald. Huh???
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Just wondering if you have seen any examples or reprints of Baldy Benton's work of the late 1940's, "Jasper Jooks." I've been searching the web without too much success.
# posted by : 5/08/2008 1:15 PM
: 5/08/2008 1:15 PM
Sure have seen Jasper Jooks, and it's a real pip, too. There are no reprints that I'm aware of.
--Allan
--Allan
Hello Allan-
It would seem that the McClure "Why Boys Leave Home" by Joe Archibald was a short-run series. I've been looking over many papers, and it seems to be around only as early as October 1930 and as late as August 1931, Saw only one assigned a date, and it was very out-of-date. I believe though it bears the McClure copyright,it seems intended to be licensed or co-opted for WNU, where it is always found as part of a WNU boilerplate page along with "Girligags", generic Underwood & Underwood non-news photos and the truss and Feen-a-mint ads. Sometimes the feature bears both McClure and WNU copyrights together.
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It would seem that the McClure "Why Boys Leave Home" by Joe Archibald was a short-run series. I've been looking over many papers, and it seems to be around only as early as October 1930 and as late as August 1931, Saw only one assigned a date, and it was very out-of-date. I believe though it bears the McClure copyright,it seems intended to be licensed or co-opted for WNU, where it is always found as part of a WNU boilerplate page along with "Girligags", generic Underwood & Underwood non-news photos and the truss and Feen-a-mint ads. Sometimes the feature bears both McClure and WNU copyrights together.
# posted by : 1/14/2022 2:25 AM
: 1/14/2022 2:25 AM Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Dell Publishing's "The Funnies" Part 11
Here we have a much more typical episode of Percy and Ferdie, complete with MacGill's trademark overlong word balloons. I notice that the cartoonist couldn't seem to make up his mind whether he was a "Mc" or a "Mac".We also have a pretty good Copper Penny gag by Ted O'Loughlin. Ted took over Finney of the Force from F.O. Alexander shortly after his stint with Dell.
Timmy O'Toole is by Courtney Dunkel who did quite a few features for The Funnies. Why he has Timmy trying to drive a nail into the middle of a table is anyone's guess.
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What a great style that Ted O'Loughlin has! I couldn't find anything about him on the interweb - do you know more?
Hi Ger -
I don't have any biographical info about him in my files. His only other newspaper credit after Finney was a three year stint on the Sunday "Sport Stars" that ran in the Philadelphia Bulletin's Fun Book.
--Allan
I don't have any biographical info about him in my files. His only other newspaper credit after Finney was a three year stint on the Sunday "Sport Stars" that ran in the Philadelphia Bulletin's Fun Book.
--Allan
ger-
the online who's who of american comic books has him doing comic books in c1945-1947, working for Columbia and Street & Smith. I have a SPARKY WATTS comic he signed. It also mentions a 1930 strip: Krazy Klippings.
the online who's who of american comic books has him doing comic books in c1945-1947, working for Columbia and Street & Smith. I have a SPARKY WATTS comic he signed. It also mentions a 1930 strip: Krazy Klippings.
There is also a mention on the internet about him and two other artists taking over from Vernon Greene on The Shadow newspaper strip. I just think his style is very good and wonder where he ended up. Look at those hands, for instance. So individually drawn...
Ted O'Loughlin worked at the Philadelphia Evening Bullentin newspaper during the mid-sixties. He was the cartoonist for a column titled, "A Woman's Touch" by Joan Greisiger that was printed once a week on the editorial page from 1964 to 1966. I am putting together a book of my mother's column's and wanted additional information on Ted.
Ted O'Laughlin was also the sports cartoonist on the short-lived PHILADELPHIA ILLUSTRATED SUN in 1927-8.
# posted by : 1/29/2012 12:31 PM
: 1/29/2012 12:31 PM
A newspaper noted Ted O'Loughlin as being 30 years old, which would place his birth year around 1906, since the newspaper was from 1936. He was also noted as being a railroad man in Philadelphia, suggesting that he was either born or living there:
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/491563815/
- Daniel
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https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/491563815/
- Daniel
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Dell Publishing's "The Funnies" Part 10
Now that I have Cole Johnson's early copy of The Funnies (#10) in hand it reveals a few problems in Beerbohm's Overstreet listing for the title, at least in my several year old edition, #36. Perhaps the problems have already been cleared up in later editions.- the section was originally 24 pages, not 16 -- sometime between Cole's copy and mine the size dropped, probably when the price dropped from 10 cents to 5 cents.
- the publication was not always a weekly; Cole's is dated September 1929, the indicia states monthly publication and a blurb says the next issue will be available on October 15. Assuming monthly frequency for the first ten issues, that puts #1 published December 1928, not in 1929, which is borne out in the indicia which states "entered as second class matter December 27 1928".
For today's strips, we have another of Ralph Wolfe's Sancho and the Don, plus a newcomer, Eveready Eddie by Moe Leff. Mo, as he would later sign himself, supplied the art for a couple of Joes (Jinks and Palooka) and as a ghost on who knows how many other features.
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Monday, May 05, 2008
Dell Publishing's "The Funnies" Part 9
Here are two of the color full tab pages from Cole Johnson's The Funnies #10. Jimmy Jams we've talked about.Bug Movies was by Stookie Allen, a fellow who seems to have had a fan following despite never having a really successful feature (much like Boody Rogers, another Funnies alum). He specialized in factual and inspirational features for over 30 years, so Bug Movies is an unusual departure for him. Judging by the truly awful gag above (hey Stookie, dumb characters can be funny -- brain damaged drooling morons not so much) he was smart to stick with factual features.
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Friday, May 02, 2008
Dell Publishing's "The Funnies" Part 8
Today we have a round-up of the smaller daily-style strips that were running in my issue of The Funnies. First up we have Animal Crackers by Lane. This seems to be a renamed reprint or continuation of In Jungleland, an obscure series distributed by Paramount Feature Service a few years earlier. That series and this one both credited the strip sometimes to Lane, sometimes to Whitey.
Yet another VEP production, Clancy The Cop was one of the Dell features that got its own reprint book.
And here's Now You Tell One by Dunkel. I assume this is Courtney Dunkel. It's kind of a cute idea, a light-hearted pastiche of Ripley and all his imitators.
Here's Private Rhodes by Joe Archibald. His only other syndicated feature came from the Graphic Syndicate, but he did quite a bit of work for The Funnies, much of it quite snappy as the above example ably shows.
And here's the amateur artists feature in The Funnies. I draw your attention to the effort by Joe Simon. The Joe Simon we all know would have been fifteen at the time, and was in New York, not St. Louis, but could it be? We also have Frank Filchock, who went on to become a comic book artist in the 30s and 40s under the name Martin Filchock.+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
This was to be the final installment of Dell's The Funnies on the Stripper's Guide blog, but I hope you're itchin' for more, because big-hearted Cole Johnson sent me beautiful color photocopies of his issue of The Funnies with lots of different features and neat stuff that, as it says in the sidebar over to your left, I don't want to file away unseen. So I hope you're enjoying this material because we're going to feature it for another week.
I must admit that the series is disappointing for me in the respect that no one appeared with proof that the Dell section did indeed run as an insert in an American paper, or that some of the features continued in newspapers after the section went belly-up. Ah well, such is life!
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Joe Archibald is best known as a writer and editor for pulps. In the mid 1950s, he edited both ned Pines pulp and comic book line (and drew comic book fillers at that time)
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Dell Publishing's "The Funnies" Part 7
Here's another Victor Pazimino production, Bush League Barry. Perhaps this title would be a good candidate for a new revival. It could be about a lame-duck neo-con president who takes steroids. It's gold, Jerry, gold!Labels: Dell's The Funnies
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That's some super high-grade helium he's using! Not that I get how filling an already greased up ball with balloon gas is an improvement ...
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# posted by : 4/30/2008 1:15 PM
: 4/30/2008 1:15 PM Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Dell Publishing's "The Funnies" Part 7
Just slightly more youthful than Foxy Grandpa, Percy and Ferdie made their debut in 1904 under the title The Hall-Room Boys. H.A. MacGill, who had shortly before caused a minor sensation in New York newspaper circles by producing the very first true sustained daily comic strip, followed up with this rather less interesting feature starring a pair of would-be gay rakes. Percy and Ferdie were always on the prowl for ladies and they usually tried to attract the fair sex by pretending to be well-off, a tactic that invariably blew up in their faces. The strip was reasonably funny, but suffered from a ridiculous surfeit of dialogue (a problem MacGill seemed finally to remedy in this incarnation).Percy and Ferdie has much the same history as Foxy Grandpa as a matter of fact. MacGill jumped syndicates pretty often, usually taking the boys along with him. But they'd not appeared for half a decade before being revived one last time in The Funnies.
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Monday, April 28, 2008
Dell Publishing's "The Funnies" Part 6
Weekend's over, time to return to The Funnies. Today we have Foxy Grandpa, Carl "Bunny" Schultze's classic strip that first appeared in the New York Herald way, way back in 1900.Foxy Grandpa was the Whack-a-Mole of comic strips. Schultze produced it for syndicate after syndicate, and every time a syndicate editor gave it the axe it would, sooner or later, pop up elsewhere. This, however, would be it's last appearance in anything approaching a newspaper. Schultze lived until 1939, though, and supposedly worked for awhile in the fledgling comic book industry -- I wouldn't be at all surprised if Foxy Grandpa made its last stand in the funnybooks.
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Hello, Allan---Maybe one reason Schultze was constantly bounced by editors is his tedious inability to produce anything interesting. He has one story---the old dude pulls a swifty on the two young dopes. The tricks shown are always very small, dull things using costumes or balloons, nothing very wild or dangerous, ala Dirks or Knerr or anyone else making any kind of agressive attempt at humor. Schultze's idea of bringing novelty to his strip was introducing a new character, like an Uncle or a baby or a puppy----and then doing the smack-same things all over again. Foxy never goes anywhere, he never goes courting, he never has a business, he never tries social climbing, He never does ANYTHING beyond dressing up and briefly shaking his two mollycoddle grandsons. It's like it's target audience was four years old. Schultze was lucky in that he created a popular character in stripdom's paleolithic era, when people were still enthralled by the ability to tell a story by using subsequent pictures. (One of Schultze's other early features was a magician doing tricks!) The title "Foxy Grandpa" became well-known enough for him to keep selling it for thirty years, but i'll bet the dull results kept these runs short. Schultze never learned how to tell a story, or how to be funny. Take those elements out of your strip, and you have the FOXY GRANPA experience.-----Cole Johnson.
# posted by : 4/28/2008 12:36 PM
: 4/28/2008 12:36 PM
Now don't hold back Cole. Are you saying Foxy Grandpa isn't your very favoritest strip?
--Allan
PS - Hope this isn't a dry run for a certain HH essay! Ooh, bad bad....
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PS - Hope this isn't a dry run for a certain HH essay! Ooh, bad bad....
Friday, April 25, 2008
Dell Publishing's "The Funnies" Part 5
Since we were discussing Boody Rogers yesterday here's a Funnies strip he did take credit for, Deadwood Gulch. This strip even got the reprint book treatment by Dell, though good luck finding a copy. Hen's teeth are plentiful by comparison.Sorry about the missing panel! Must have been a real corker for that rotten kid to have so carefully cut it out.
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
Dell Publishing's "The Funnies" Part 4
Here's Sancho and the Don by Ralph Wolfe. It sometimes appeared in the section as a color page, in my issue it's a half-tab black and white. Wolfe was a good cartoonist and storyteller -- he had a knack for coming up with good strip ideas. Unfortunately he also had a knack for picking out bad companies to work for. In addition to this Dell project he also worked for the Graphic Syndicate and Cornelius Vanderbilt's C-V Syndicate. I understand he finally managed to pick a winner when he went to Warner Brothers, working in their animation studio.Labels: Dell's The Funnies
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Hello, Allan---Is it possible that this was actually drawn by Gordon "Boody" Rogers? It certainly looks like his style, shading, and lettering. Even the initials "RG" ("Rogers Gordon"?) look like his signature. -----Cole Johnson.
# posted by : 4/24/2008 1:49 PM
: 4/24/2008 1:49 PM
Hi Cole -
It certainly could since Rogers was involved with The Funnies. His (signed) strip will be shown here anon. I can see elements of both Wolfe's and Roger's styles here -- maybe Boody inked Wolfe's pencils or something to that effect?
--Allan
It certainly could since Rogers was involved with The Funnies. His (signed) strip will be shown here anon. I can see elements of both Wolfe's and Roger's styles here -- maybe Boody inked Wolfe's pencils or something to that effect?
--Allan
Ralph actually lives on, in that the Ralph Wolf (versus Sam Sheepdog) character at WB was named for him. (Source: Steve Schneider, "That's All Folks!", page 231, though the name is spelled Wolf there)
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Dell Publishing's "The Funnies" Part 3
Here's a strip from one of the black and white pages of The Funnies, Sniffy by Glen Wood. Not much of a gag, but this Wood fellow had a pleasant style. Except I think there is no such person -- looks suspiciously like VEP's work to me.Let's talk a bit more about the newspaper question. The really odd thing about The Funnies is that most of its features were listed in the Editor & Publisher syndicate directory. If it was a standalone newsstand publication what were its features doing in there? And if the section ended in late 1930 why were many of the features advertised in E&P until 1934? And why were all those features listed as being syndicated by Eastern Color Printing, rather than Dell Publishing?
Inquiring minds wanna know!
Here's my guess -- after the initial run, which was tried both as a newsstand publication and was also eventually offered as a newspaper insert, Dell deep-sixed the publication, but had a lot of paid-for material on its hands. So they tried publishing some Cupples & Leon style books of Clancy The Cop and others, but those didn't sell either. So they figured maybe they could make the experiment pay off by offering the strips as separate features to newspapers for their existing Sunday sections. They offered the strips through Eastern Color Printing, a company with which they did a number of joint ventures, and which was a major printer of Sunday funnies for newspapers. Only problem was no newspapers bought the darn features! Not surprising because Eastern was not in the business of marketing comic strips to newspaper editors, though one must imagine that they should have had quite a leg up on the competition. End of utterly baseless speculation.
EDIT 8/7/08: Chris Mosher writes to tell me that VEP lived on Glenwood Road in Flatbush, so that explains the pen name. You can find a bio of VEP by Mosher here.
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this will be short as a nice long post, I tried to post got sent to the void: All I can see, shows that Eastern Color produced the material and Dell handled the newstand aspects of publishing. Eastern Color even ran Seaweed Sam (hope i recall the name right) in later years in FAMOUS FUNNIES.
Hi Steven -
I haven't seen this Seaweed Sam in any of the sections. I guess what has me scratching my noggin is that Eastern Color never managed to sell any newspapers on running this reasonably good material. Apparently they were trying to sell it for four years -- could they really have had such a complete lack of success over such a long period? My fantasy, I guess, is that someone will come out of the woodwork to tell us that, "oh sure, those strips all ran in the Foggy Bottom Daily Windbag". A fella can dream, right?
--Allan
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I haven't seen this Seaweed Sam in any of the sections. I guess what has me scratching my noggin is that Eastern Color never managed to sell any newspapers on running this reasonably good material. Apparently they were trying to sell it for four years -- could they really have had such a complete lack of success over such a long period? My fantasy, I guess, is that someone will come out of the woodwork to tell us that, "oh sure, those strips all ran in the Foggy Bottom Daily Windbag". A fella can dream, right?
--Allan
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Dell Publishing's "The Funnies" Part 2
Hmm. The first post about The Funnies yesterday was greeted with the deafening roar of virtual cricket chirpings. No one has any information to share?Well, anyway, here's our first strip from The Funnies. Jimmy Jams was by VEP (Victor Pazimino), who did anchor duty at that publication. He provided every cover that I've seen, always featuring Jimmy in one of his eponymous jams. I suspect that Jimmy appeared in every issue and was featured on every cover.
As you can see, the sample above was treated rudely by some young rapscallion 75+ years ago.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that Jimmy Jams, prior to this incarnation, was a Central Press daily panel in the late 20s.
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Perhaps someone should bring this blog investigation into the The Funnies to the attention of the folks at Platinum Comics list? I imagine we could generate the discussion, and maybe "newer" from Bob B himself...
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# posted by : 4/22/2008 11:39 PM
: 4/22/2008 11:39 PM Monday, April 21, 2008
Dell Publishing's "The Funnies"
Today we're going to start on a series of posts about a very rare series. Dell Publishing, for reasons long lost to the mists of time, decided in 1930 to begin publishing a tabloid called The Funnies. The 16 page publication was on newsprint throughout, including the cover, and featured comics, stories and columns. All the material was original to the publication.
The series lasted for at least 36 issues. Based on the numbering cited in Robert Beerbohm's platinum age comics section of the Overstreet Price Guide that places the first issue appearing on February 15 1930, and he has the last known issue, number 36, on October 18.
The big question, at least for me, is whether this series was intended as a newspaper insert or a standalone newsstand publication. There is evidence that goes both ways. Evidence that it was intended as a newspaper insert:
1) I corresponded with Beerbohm many years ago about the series -- unfortunately the correspondence was long ago lost but my best recollection is that he claimed his samples at the time all came from the microfilm of a newspaper in Quebec Canada.
2) The comic strips from the publication were offered in the Editor & Publisher Syndicate Yearbook. More on this in a subsequent post.
3) Beerbohm's samples (he made a batch of photocopies for me) had the cover price blanked out, which would be appropriate for an insert.
On the other hand, there is a definite possibility that it was a standalone newsstand publication:
1) Some samples of the tabloid, including mine, have prices printed on them.
2) It is cited as a newsstand publication by Beerbohm and others. I don't know what the basis for that is other than the cover price.
My guess is that Dell was probably trying to market it both ways. But part of the reason I'm doing this series of posts is to try to gather more information from you comics scholars out there. Surely there is more known about this publication now than there was a decade or so ago when I talked to Robert Beerbohm about it. Has anyone else found samples, either accompanying newspapers or otherwise?
The rest of this series of posts will reproduce samples of the features from The Funnies from my lone sample -- a find that I've been searching out for years now. Unfortunately my sample is missing 4 pages and there's a cutout on the back cover. But beggars can't be choosers, so I'm happy to have even this badly damaged copy.
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Hello, Allan---I also have a copy of THE FUNNIES, namely #10, September, 1929,24 pages. It has a circle printed in the masthead, with "10c" in it. Some pretty fascinating stuff in it, perhaps the most interesting is a brand-new PERCY AND FERDY series by H.A.MacGill.Could you use xeroxes from it? Actually, I thought this would be outside the realm of comic strips, and would be considered more of a very early comio book. It's clearly designed as a stand-alone publication. My two cents is that the Quebec newspaper business sounds like a Loch Ness monster sighting.---Cole Johnson.
# posted by : 4/22/2008 12:12 PM
: 4/22/2008 12:12 PM
Says #10 on it, eh? Well that's shoots my timeline in the foot. Apparently the earlier issues were monthlies? Since yours just says September, that sure sounds like a monthly, so that would kill the idea that they were marketed as newspaper inserts, at least at first (I'll have more to say about that in my post tomorrow). My sample isn't numbered, so I'm leaning heavily on Overstreet here.
Beerbohm's samples that he sent me had the prices blanked out, so they definitely exist in that form. Hopefully Robert will find his way over to the blog and weigh in on the subject. I lost his email long ago -- could someone who corresponds with him ask him to pay a visit?
And what a question, Cole -- of course I'm chomping at the bit to get photocopies of your issue. Silly, silly fellow!
--Allan
Beerbohm's samples that he sent me had the prices blanked out, so they definitely exist in that form. Hopefully Robert will find his way over to the blog and weigh in on the subject. I lost his email long ago -- could someone who corresponds with him ask him to pay a visit?
And what a question, Cole -- of course I'm chomping at the bit to get photocopies of your issue. Silly, silly fellow!
--Allan
So here i was decided to Google my name to see where i stand in the rankings with ancestors Sir Herbert & Sir Max, discovered this citation, just had to check it out, found it is timely as in just yesterday
That all said, Allan, please go
check out the "Origin of the Modern Comic Book" article in the last few Overstreets wherein i credit Ken Barker for the Montreal Funnies discovery which placed THE FUNNIES as a newspaper insert in at least that city as well as your research re THE FUNNIES in Editor & Publisher 1930-34 as advertised therein by Eastern Color.
Collectively comics fandom actually knows a lot about this start-up and how it ties into the later start-up FAMOUS FUNNIES which Dell and Eastern also partnered up on - nothing bizaare to me on this concept: a printer and a wholesaler joining forces during the Great Depression.
This was Delacorte and Janosik's first partnership as i further document -and i suggest people check out the newest Overstreet #38 as i have fine tuned the data into what i think makes coherent sense - and always welcome other ideas on how it all evolved - as all we can do is comics archeology, making parts of it open to best educated conjecture
- best - Robert Beerbohm
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That all said, Allan, please go
check out the "Origin of the Modern Comic Book" article in the last few Overstreets wherein i credit Ken Barker for the Montreal Funnies discovery which placed THE FUNNIES as a newspaper insert in at least that city as well as your research re THE FUNNIES in Editor & Publisher 1930-34 as advertised therein by Eastern Color.
Collectively comics fandom actually knows a lot about this start-up and how it ties into the later start-up FAMOUS FUNNIES which Dell and Eastern also partnered up on - nothing bizaare to me on this concept: a printer and a wholesaler joining forces during the Great Depression.
This was Delacorte and Janosik's first partnership as i further document -and i suggest people check out the newest Overstreet #38 as i have fine tuned the data into what i think makes coherent sense - and always welcome other ideas on how it all evolved - as all we can do is comics archeology, making parts of it open to best educated conjecture
- best - Robert Beerbohm
www.BLBcomics.com
# posted by : 4/23/2008 9:03 AM
: 4/23/2008 9:03 AM
Hi Bob -
Sorry, my last Overstreet is #36 at present. Since the only part of that tome that is of interest to me is your hall of wonders at the front, which may or may not have a lot of new information in a given year, I unclasp my purse only every three or four years for the latest version.
As I said to Steven Rowe in a comment a few days hence, I'm hoping that since this Montreal (Gazette? Star?) paper ran the section that others, hopefully in the US, did as well. If they did I can add all these delightful strips to my Stripper's Guide project. Otherwise I'm bound by my self-imposed rules to ignore them, a shame since most of the creators were newspaper strip guys, some pretty important (like H.A. MacGill and 'Bunny' Schultze).
So have you heard of any more discoveries re the section appearing as a newspaper insert?
Oh, and you mentioning Ken Barker has me wondering. Did I miscredit you for sending those photocopies? Was it actually Ken? If so, Ken, please accept my apologies.
--Allan
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Sorry, my last Overstreet is #36 at present. Since the only part of that tome that is of interest to me is your hall of wonders at the front, which may or may not have a lot of new information in a given year, I unclasp my purse only every three or four years for the latest version.
As I said to Steven Rowe in a comment a few days hence, I'm hoping that since this Montreal (Gazette? Star?) paper ran the section that others, hopefully in the US, did as well. If they did I can add all these delightful strips to my Stripper's Guide project. Otherwise I'm bound by my self-imposed rules to ignore them, a shame since most of the creators were newspaper strip guys, some pretty important (like H.A. MacGill and 'Bunny' Schultze).
So have you heard of any more discoveries re the section appearing as a newspaper insert?
Oh, and you mentioning Ken Barker has me wondering. Did I miscredit you for sending those photocopies? Was it actually Ken? If so, Ken, please accept my apologies.
--Allan
