Nathan Hayward’s “College Scenes”, 1850: Freshman Year
For our final week (this year) of comics created by college students — in salute to those headed Back-to-School (and those happy they are) — we present a second 1850-published sequential comic book, College Scenes, by Harvard University student Nathan Hayward. Like the William Peters’ circa 1850 Yale comic Ichabod Academicus, Hayward broke College Scenes into four [...]
Billy Ireland’s “Teck Haskins at Ohio State”, 1909
For our third Back-to-School installment of comics created by college students, we return to Ohio State, home of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, to take a peek at some of the cartoons that Ireland did while at OSU. Below, the cover from two copies of his 1909 collection, Teck Haskins at “Ohio State” (Also “Towser” — [...]
William T. Peters’ “Ichabod Academicus”, circa 1850: Freshman Year
For our second week of comics published by college students — in honor of the Back-to-School Season — we present the circa 1850 sequential comic book, The College Experiences of Ichabod Academicus, by Yale University student William T. Peters. Peters structured Ichabod Academicus into four chapters, covering his four years of college. This being our first presentation of Ichabod, the [...]
Sidney Wells’ “Life at College”, 1922-24
Well, for many of you out there, the Back-to-School Season has, or soon will, arrive. In honor of this (and of my girlfriend’s daughter heading off this weekend for her Freshman Year at NYU!), I’ll be subjecting all of you to extracts from college student-published comics, today and the next three Mondays! First up, published at Ohio State [...]
