Last Monday’s post on the pamphlets of the G.H. Lockwood Art School, ended with the booklet A Little Journey to the Home of Briggs the Sky-Rocket, focusing on artist Clare Briggs, and a promise to show the numerous cartoons shown in it, by other cartoonists, in tribute to Briggs.

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Briggs had been working for the Chicago Tribune, writing/drawing such single panel cartoon series as When a Feller Needs a Friend (examples of which shown below, from their appearance in the January 1913 issue of Cartoons Magazine), and Oh Skin-nay! In the Days of Real Sport (examples shown last Monday).

The occasion of these tributes, was that in February 1914, Clare Briggs quit the Chicago Tribune, moving to New York City, to work instead for the New York Tribune. All of the following images were found in Briggs the Sky-Rocket. Below, one cartoonist’s idea of what Briggs’ Tribune office looked like.

Some of the tributes to Briggs. Amongst these, are cartoons by John T. McCutcheon, Fontaine Fox (Toonerville Trolley), and Winsor McCay (Little Nemo).

Still more tributes to Briggs, including one by Sidney Smith (The Gumps).

Finally, Briggs’ first cartoon in the New York Tribune, made fun of his own debut. Including, assumably, a self-portrait in the top center of the cartoon, of Briggs looking past a corner at the reactions of his new audience.

Doug Wheeler