Tigwissel Tuesdays #18: Colonizing the North Pole
I hadn’t given thought to just how few Tuesdays are free of Presidential Primaries or Holidays the first half of this year. It’s been a month since the previous Tigwissel Tuesday, and will be a month again until the next.
Anyway, we’ll continue to sporadically present other scientists, inventors, and explorer parodies, between actual Prof. Tigwissel episodes, until we get back to a large succession of open Tuesdays.
Above, from the front page of the April 8th, 1878 issue of the (New York) Daily Graphic, The Humors of the Howgate Colonization Plan. Some Cool Reflections., by Prof. Tigwissel‘s creator, comic artist Livingston Hopkins. This parodies the plans of Captain Howard Howgate — who, lead a polar expedition in 1878, and who yes, indeed, had the goal of colonizing the Arctic…
Click on the above comic to view it in detail, and read its text.
Below, Hopkins had previously touched on the subject of Arctic exploration, in Prof. Tigwissel‘s third comic strip appearance, of July 28th, 1875. Click on the below comic, to be taken to a description of it, and find link to high resolution version.
NYDailyGraphic Polar Exploration
— Doug
