Professor Tigwissel’s Experiment with Blue Glass: Tigwissel Tuesdays #50
In 1877, medical journals and newspapers were filled with efforts to debunk what was being called “Blue Glass Mania” (or, Chromo-Therapy), in which fraudulent healers were claiming they could cure illnesses by bathing people in light passed through color glass. The practice was made popular by Augustus Pleasonton, who experimented with panes of colored glass [...]
Professor Tigwissel’s Journalistic Venture, January 15th, 1876: Tigwissel Tuesdays #25
Above, from the front page of the January 15th, 1876 edition of the (New York) Daily Graphic, comes the ninth appearance of this series’ favorite recurring comic strip character, Professor Tigwissel. In Professor Tigwissel’s Journalistic Venture, creator/artist Livingston Hopkins breaks form by having Tigwissel engaged in a non-scientific activity — newspaper editor. Click on the [...]
Tigwissel Tuesdays #16: Water-Walking Shoes, Again!
As earlier promised, Tigwissel Tuesdays has returned in January! Next week I’ll present the eighth appearance of re-occuring comic strip character, Professor Tigwissel. First, however, during the three month Tigwissel hiatus, I came across the above cartoon, rather obviously ripped off from the first appearance of Professor Tigwissel by Hopkins. A Tale of a Great [...]
Tigwissel Tuesdays #8.5: Sydney Bulletin Re-Do
This week’s Tigwissel Tuesdays is a “Re-Do” in two ways. The above page was originally a re-do by artist Livingston Hopkins, when, for the above cartoon in the April 14th, 1884 Sydney Bulletin, he swiped from his own art — reusing bits from his 1st Professor Tigwissel comic strip found in the May 28th, 1875 [...]
Tigwissel Tuesdays #4: Professor Tigwissel Debuts, May 28, 2025
Above — emerging two years after Hopkins’ prototype versions Professor Simple and Mr. Tigwissel — we at last arrive at the true debut of Livingston Hopkins’ recurring comic strip character, Professor Tigwissel. The above comic — “Professor Tigwissel’s Life-Saving Apparatus” — appeared on the front page of the (New York) Daily Graphic newspaper, on May [...]
