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 [...]
Amundsen Reaches the South Pole: Tigwissel Tuesdays #21 / Cartoons Magazine Centennial, April 1912, Part 12
Still waiting for Primary Season to die down, so we can get a good enough run of non-political Tuesdays, to start popping out some actual Prof. Tigwissel episodes. In the meantime, the tradition of alternating Tigwissel with other scientific cartoon parodies continues, this time crossed with our year-long celebration of the centennial of Year One [...]
Tigwissel Tuesdays #18: Colonizing the North Pole
I hadn’t given thought to just how few Tuesdays are free of Presidential Primaries or Holidays the first half of this year. It’s been a month since the previous Tigwissel Tuesday, and will be a month again until the next. Anyway, we’ll continue to sporadically present other scientists, inventors, and explorer parodies, between actual Prof. [...]
Tigwissel Tuesdays #7: Professor Tigwissel’s Arctic Experience, July 28th, 1875
Professor Tigwissel‘s third published adventure — Professor Tigwissel’s Arctic Experience — appeared on July 28th, 1875, on the front page of that day’s (New York) Daily Graphic. Tigwissel creator — comic artist Livingston Hopkins — took his inspiration from contemporary accounts of Polar explorers (and popular cartoon parodies of same). Concocting a polar scenario during [...]
