Father’s Day
Our Father’s Day posting (coming to you late, thanks to a power outage), comes from the 1930 booklet Health in Pictures. Doug Wheeler
The Untimely End of Daddy, 1882
Above, The Untimely End of Daddy, an 1882 set of Victorian trading cards which together form a short comic strip story. These cards were sold to various merchants, who would print their own advertisements on the back of the cards, then give them away to customers, who, wanting the entire story, would hopefully come back [...]
Father’s Day
Welcome to our second annual Father’s Day posting! Above, A Happy Father from the February 1857 issue of the American comic monthly Nick-Nax. (These two panels are in fact ripped off from the first two panels of the comic strip The History of “Our Baby” by William McConnell, which in 1853 was serialized in the British [...]
Markin’ Smokes #439
Let’s start this Flag Day edition with Captain America co-creator Jack Kirby’s son, Neal, writing in tribute to his late father in anticipation of Father’s Day. http://www.co2comics.com/blog/2011/06/13/father’s-day-tribute-to-jack-kirby-from-his-son/ Here’s a nice collection of Will Eisner’s final Spirit Section pages featuring the Spirit in Outer Space by Wally Wood. http://ripjaggerdojo.blogspot.com/2011/06/outer-space-spirit.html There’s been a lot of coverage of [...]
The Romance of a Hammock; (or, How Daddy Lost His Head), 1882
Once again we merge our Theatrical Cartoons and Valentine’s Day/Romance series into one post, with the 1882 fold-out booklet, The Romance of a Hammock. This short tale of love-gone-wrong, was recited in comic verse by actor & producer Gus Williams (pictured on the cover in his role of John Mishler, the lead character in the play One of the Finest, by Joseph Bradford). The [...]
C.M. Coolidge’s Father’s Day, 1882
Artist Cassius Marcellus Coolidge — famed for his classic American painting, Dogs Playing Poker — a masterpiece appreciated most by fathers, created in 1882 a set of comic cards titled, I’m a Daddy, advertised in such places as the back of Harper’s Weekly, and selling for ten cents per set. Below are two advertising cards, promoting to dealers the [...]
Marketing Comics-WWFD?
Welp, the “America’s Top Toon-MILF-Battle of the Cartoon Moms” contest has come to a close. Morticia-you go, girlfriend! We’ll do it again sometime. Soon? Next Mother’s Day? What do you think? And what do you think of Joe of the Forbidden Planet’s idea of a DILF contest? It sounds pretty good to me, I’ll think [...]
