“Cupid & Crinoline”, Thomas Onwhyn 1858
This year for Valentine’s Day, we present the British fold-out comic strip booklet, Cupid & Crinoline. Published on October 20th, 1858, creator Thomas Onwhyn parodies the impediment to romance that the popular women’s fashion known as a “hoop skirt”, or, “Crinoline”, imposed. Click here to find previous Valentine’s Day postings. To complete the story (never [...]
Women’s Suffrage: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 4 + Themes Revue
Above & below, from the July 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, are a couple pages of cartoons on the subject of Women’s Suffrage. Above, American cartoons, including one by Robert Satterfield; beneath, two views from the Italian comic publication, Turin Fischietto. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and [...]
A Valentine’s Joke Book, 1912 & 1852
For this year’s Valentine’s Day, we first have from 1912, A Valentine Joke Book — part of the weekly 1911-1912 Sunday American Joke Book series. These were newspaper supplements, bound as newsprint magazines, inside the Boston American and N.Y. American newspapers. (Other cities might also have done these — I do not know; due to [...]
Shakin’ Stevens # 559
Neal Adams has thrown his considerable gravitas behind Mark Evanier, Neil Gaiman and others to point out you don’t need to take sides in the Gary Friedrich/Marvel mess in order to help keep Gary from losing his home. If you can help the Silver Age legend, please check the link below to [...]
Macon Lynx # 556
Here’s an article about the petition currently circulating to get Jack Kirby some credit. Don’t know how much good it will do but couldn’t hurt! http://www.comicsbeat.com/2012/02/06/jack-kirby-royaltiescredit-petition-live-at-change-org/ When I interviewed Stan Goldberg for Craig’s Archie book, we also talked a bit about his career as Marvel’s chief Silver Age colorist, some examples of [...]
Gray Parker’s “The Reconstructed Female”, 1883
In celebration of Valentine’s Day, we present my absolute favorite Gray Parker comic. Parker was an upper-class NYC dandy, whose cartoons populated the (New York) Daily Graphic and, later, Life magazine. His comics were nearly always set amongst the aristocratic rich, often marching in step with them, but — when he was at his funniest — taking aim at [...]
nLinks’Maki # 368
We start today with Waffyjon going “By the Tens” with the original, Golden Age Daredevil which gets us a number of really fun Charles Biro covers featuring the Little Wise Guys. http://waffyjon.blogspot.com/2011/02/by-10s-daredevil-comics.html On a similar note, Bully offers Ten of a Kind–in this case ten covers from Dell, Gold Key and Gemstone highlighting Donald Duck’s [...]
‘LinksMakin # 367
One of my favorite early seventies publications was the oversized Kirby Unleashed, the first history/art collection of Jack King Kirby, just as he lighted at DC to create the 4th World. http://waffyjon.blogspot.com/2011/02/fandom-library-kirby-unleashed.html Let’s take a quick look at Dennis the Menace imitator (one of many!) Melvin the Monster…or is it Dexter the Demon…or even Peter [...]
The Romance of a Hammock; (or, How Daddy Lost His Head), 1882
Once again we merge our Theatrical Cartoons and Valentine’s Day/Romance series into one post, with the 1882 fold-out booklet, The Romance of a Hammock. This short tale of love-gone-wrong, was recited in comic verse by actor & producer Gus Williams (pictured on the cover in his role of John Mishler, the lead character in the play One of the Finest, by Joseph Bradford). The [...]
The Drummer’s Train Mash
For the month of February, we are continuing our series on Theatrical Cartoons, plus, for Valentine’s Day/Month, adding a focus on those involving Romance. Above is a five-card fold-out strip, advertising a performance of Sam’l of Posen; or, the Commercial Drummer, a highly successful 1881 play by George H. Jessop. On the reverse side of this fold-out, is [...]
