The House That Jeff Built, 1863
For this year’s round of African American History Month postings, we open with cartoonist David Claypoole Johnston‘s Civil War-era broadsheet, “The House That Jeff Built”. Johnston is remembered mainly for his collections of non-sequential single panel images, “Scraps”, beginning in 1828. This is one of but a few times Johnston instead arranged his page to tell a unified multi-panel comic strip story. Johnston died in 1865, after the War’s conclusion.
Click on the above picture, to view the story in detail, and be able read its text.
Watch later this month, for a second Civil War-themed “House that Jack Built”-inspired parody.
Jeff Davis Jefferson Davis
— Doug
