Polar Exploration: Tigwissel Tuesdays #33
This week for Tigwissel Tuesdays, we touch again on Polar Exploration — the goal of reaching either pole being the 19th Century’s (and before) equivalent of landing on the Moon. Above, by artist William Heath, from the November 14th, 1825 tenth issue of Glasgow Looking Glass, we find Jack Frost consuming ships engaged in a [...]
Tigwissel Tuesdays #9: Subsequent Egg-Heads: Professors O. Howe Wise and I.B. Schmart
For this week’s Tigwissel Tuesdays, we present some more “modern” examples in the bespectacled scientist buffoon tradition, of which Tigwissel is a part. Professors O. Howe Wise and I.B. Schmart were regulars in artist Ed Payne’s long-running, 1899 to 1955, Boston Sunday Globe comic strip series, Billy the Boy Artist. Billy’s schtick was to make [...]
Billy the Boy Artist
Continuing our April Fool’s Month theme of amateur artists and pranksters, we bring you a sampling of Billy the Boy Artist by Ed Payne, a comic strip about a boy whose shtick was to play pranks on the depth perception-deprived adults surrounding him, by making paintings so realistic, that his victims were tricked into reacting as if [...]
