Cartoonists at the Theatre: Turn to the Right, 1916
We have one more cartoonist-illustrated theater giveaway for April Fools’ Month, advertising the travelling comedic play Turn to the Right, showing at Garrick Theatre in Philadelphia during the Christmas Season. (An internet search shows this play was at that theater during Christmas 1916, so unless it played there in other years on Christmas as well, [...]
Leavin’ Marks # 690
Here’s a look at DC’s licensed Bomba comic book from the sixties, easily my favorite Jack Sparling artwork. http://ripjaggerdojo.blogspot.com/2012/04/b-is-for-bomba.html One of my all-time favorite funny comic books, here’s Fractured Fairy Tales, based on the Jay Ward cartoon. http://www.bigblogcomics.com/2012/04/fractured-fairy-tales-october-1962.html Here’s a lovely gallery of the legendary cartoonist George McManus whose Bringing Up Father outlasted [...]
Bringing Up Father & Katzenjammer Kids Plays
This week in our ongoing Theatrical Cartoons series, a few examples of ads for plays based on popular comic strip series. Above, a flyer for Bringing Up Father in Gay New York, based on the newspaper strip by George McManus. Below, two more Bringing Up Father ads, this time in the form of ink blotters. [...]
Local Vanity Cartoon Books — As We See ‘Em, Part 2
Last Monday, in Part 1, we introduced the As We See ‘Em books, explaining how those appearing in the books, paid to appear in them, caricatured by cartoonists from their city’s local newspaper(s). It was considered good advertising — not only of your business, but of your social status in the community. Below, left-to-right: An eye doctor Bill [...]
Old Skool! University of California 1924 Yearbook
Many amateur cartoonists got their first taste of being in print by illustrating their school yearbooks from Boody Rogers to Milton Caniff. But here’s a switch: I imagine William Randolph Hearst was a big donor to the University of California and that it was he who drafted his A-List cartoonists to cartoon what have to [...]
This Day in Arf History: Zeke Zekley is Born
On this day in 1915 comic illustrator Zeke Zekley was born in Chicago. After being laid off from Disney he was hired as a worthy, long time, assistant to George McManus on the great Bringing Up Father comic strip.
This Day In Arf History: The Birth of George McManus
Born on this day in 1884, George McManus began his cartooning career at the tender age of 16, as an artist for the St. Louis Republic. Later he joined the New York Journal American, for which he created his hit “Bringing Up Father” strip. It was syndicated internationally by King Features. One of the popular [...]
Maggie and Jiggs…
…that’s not just a euphemism for 8-pager Tijuana Bibles. It was one of the grand comic strips of comic strip’s Golden Age. Here’s some little original character sketches by their artist George McManus. That’s Jiggs, Maggie and their daughter Rosie. I don’t know how those two ugly pugs spawned that beautiful offspring but I’d like [...]
Mind Fuck
One of the best things about blogs is turning the readers onto OTHER blogs and websites. I gotta remember that. Today I have the supreme pleasure of alerting you to two terrific url’s with two friends of mine behind them. The first is a website by Jon Barli that showcses his wonderful and important work [...]
