We find the seventh appearance of Professor Tigwissel — comic artist Livingston Hopkins‘ re-occurring sequential cartoon strip character — not in Tigwissel’s usual home (New York’s Daily Graphic). Rather, this week’s Tigwissel — titled Professor Tigwissel’s Trip Up the Nile — appeared on the rear page of the December 11th, 1875 issue of Frank Leslie’s Boys’ and Girls’ Weekly.

(Click on the above comic page to see a larger version! The panels above are read top-to-bottom, then left-to-right.)

What I should have actually said, is that the above Professor Tigwissel strip, is the seventh appearance of Tigwissel “known to me”. The fact is, all of the Tigwissel appearances I am listing, come from my own research of the Daily Graphic. While I have searched through other American periodicals that Livingston Hopkins is known to have worked for, my research in those is far from complete. The above comic page, is the only Tigwissel I have found outside the Daily Graphic. But I can not state definitively, that it is the only one which was published. The fact that many of the strips published on the rear page of Frank Leslie’s Boys’ and Girls’ Weekly, had first appeared elsewhere, further raises the possibility that this — what I am labelling the seventh Tigwissel — might in truth have appeared elsewhere, earlier. And, if so, might be earlier than “seventh”.

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

Doug Wheeler

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