Orange Ya Glad I Didn’t Say Banana?
So, as you can see when you scroll below, I’ll be soon speaking about the Arf books at the MoCCA Art Festival, the home of all kinds of cool independent comics. This is, I think, the 5th year for the great event and it’s always held at the beautiful Puck building in NYC. I don’t think the young, snot-nosed cartoonists there know the grand history of the Puck Building. It was the headquarters of the brilliant humor magazine, “Puck”, of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Puck published the superstar cartoonists of the time like Gilliam, Zim and, my fave, Opper. I love this Opper cartoon below from a Puck tearsheet I have. I love trying to, impossibly probably, pinpoint the origins of cartooning cliches/classics/conventions (whatever you want to call them).  Is this the very first cartoon featuring the slipping on the banana peel gag?!? If it’s not the first maybe it’s the best, yo!
— C. Yoe (in the funny papers)
[...] Courtesy of Craig Yoe, an undated Frederick Opper cartoon from the legendary humor magazine Puck, detailing various ways to slip on a banana peel. (Above: detail from the cartoon.) [...]
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