Tigwissel Tuesdays #11: Contemporaries: Judy Magazine, October 28, 2025
Jenkinson, by Archibald Chasemore October 28th, 1874 Above, from the October 28th, 1874 issue of Judy magazine, is Episode 51 of artist Archibald Chasemore‘s series, Rattletrap Rhymes. (I do not believe Rattletrap Rhymes contained any continuing characters, but I’ll be honest and say that I haven’t fully checked.) This episode features a highly Tigwissel-appearing egghead [...]
The Coming of Christmas
Click on the above picture, to open an enlarged version. Today, a parade, to celebrate The Coming of Christmas. (More to come, daily, all this week!) By Archibald Chasemore, in the British comic periodical, Judy, December 17th, 1873. Merry Christmas! Doug Wheeler BritJudy Christmas Comics
Buffalo Bill & Queen Victoria, at her Golden Jubilee, 1887
For those who may have missed it, we re-present for Native American Heritage Month an article from this past Spring, on how comic periodicals covered the 1887 tour of England by Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. Bill and his show, filled with Native Americans, had been sent as America’s main contribution to the celebrations of [...]
Buffalo Bill & Queen Victoria, at Her Golden Jubilee, 1887
Greetings everyone, and Happy Victoria Day! To which all dozen of our American readers are likely going, “Huh?”, but I’m sure our one reader each in Canada, Britain, and Australia, should be pleased that we’ve remembered them (those three are, after all, twenty percent of our audience)! Being American, we naturally have to twist this holiday honoring Queen [...]
