Father’s Day
Welcome to our second annual Father’s Day posting!
Above, A Happy Father from the February 1857 issue of the American comic monthly Nick-Nax. (These two panels are in fact ripped off from the first two panels of the comic strip The History of “Our Baby” by William McConnell, which in 1853 was serialized in the British comic weekly Diogenes. The two panels pre-sage numerous similar-themed strips, several of which were shown in our Father’s Day posting last year (click here to see those).
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Below, after the baby is born, starts the fun… inspiring A Chance for Manufacturers by Frederick Burr Opper. This originally ran as a large color cartoon on the rear cover of Puck magazine. The below scan comes from its later reprinting in the January 1890 issue of Puck’s Library.
Finally, father’s duty is never done, as shown by the two-panel cartoon Parental Strategy by F.M. Hutchins. This, too, from a later reprinting, found in the July 1895 Puck’s Library.
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— Doug
