Pictorial History of Senator Slim’s Voyage to Europe, circa 1855-1860s
As we travel between the two major political party conventions this weekend, it seems a good time to take a look at the politically neutral comic pamphlet, Pictorial History of Senator Slim’s Voyage to Europe, with sequential art by John McLenan. The Victorian Age section of the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, gives a publication [...]
Exhibition: Victorian Narrative Stereography: 1855 – 1910
Tonight, February 3rd, from 4 to 7 pm, will be a reception for the gallery exhibit, Victorian Narrative Stereography: 1855-1910, at the Little Gallery of Sage College of Albany. It is located on campus, in Rathbone Hall, 140 New Scotland Avenue, Albany, NY. Afterwards, the exhibit will be open thru February 26, Sunday – Friday, [...]
Tigwissel Tuesdays #6: Tigwissel Antecedents: Professor Prag
Professor Tigwissel was, of course, preceded by the comic misadventures of numerous other cartoon strip professors. Nearly all of these bumbling, bespectacled scientists were one-appearance wonders, or at best had a couple serialized appearances — nothing approaching the sporadic seven-year run of Hopkin’s Tigwissel. They certainly, however, influenced Hopkins, who would have seen at least [...]
Selling Out the Red Man: American Advertisers Portray the Natives
WARNING: The following cartoons contain racist imagery and slurs. To close out our series on Native American Heritage Month (until next year), we bring you artist Livingston Hopkins’ Big Scalper & Big Smoker. During the nineteenth century, there were a great number of sources that reinforced the projected image that Native Americans were uncivilized, hostile, [...]
