With Professor Tigwissel’s second comedic adventure, Livingston Hopkins cements the funny-sounding name and bespectacled egg-head design of the character to which Hopkins repeatedly return to for parodies involving in inventors, academics, scientists, and explorers. On this second appearance, though, it was not yet clear that readers would (sporadically) be seeing Tigwissel again and again, over the next seven years. In The Day We Celebrate, published on the front page of the July 3rd, 1875 edition of the (New York) Daily Graphic, Professor Tigwissel’s strip is given no more than twenty percent of the page, which he has to share with a potential rival character, Dr. Jingo. Hopkins will in fact eventually give Dr. Jingo his own full page solo outing, but only once.

(NOTE: You can click on the pictures above & below, to open versions large enough to read!)

For those interested, below is an extraction of just the Tigwissel/Jingo cross-over panels contained within the above page.

To view previous entries in this series, click here on Tigwissel Tuesdays.

Doug Wheeler

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