Thomas Onwhyn’s Beach Comics: The Royal Cabinet Album of Sea Side
For the end of (this year’s) run of artist Thomas Onwhyn‘s 1850s thru 1860s beach vacation cartoon booklets — and in celebration of the expanding Royal Family — we have the early 1860s book — The Royal Cabinet Album of Sea Side, published in the early 1860′s. Above, a size comparison of various Onwhyn beach [...]
Thomas Onwhyn’s Beach Comics: Papa’s Visit to the Sea Side, 1856
Today we’re graced with another of artist Thomas Onwhyn‘s small cartoon booklets involving a Victorian family’s adventures at the beach — Papa’s Visit to the Sea Side, created on February 29th, 1856. (And probably released a few months later, as I can’t imagine selling beach vacation cartoons, in February!) Enjoy! Click on the above & [...]
Thomas Onwhyn’s Beach Comics: Mama at the Sea Side, 1857
Up for your enjoyment today, Mama at the Sea Side, created or published on April 30th, 1857. This is one of a series of short cartoon booklets about the adventures of a Victorian Age family at the beach — remarkably the same family, as these appeared over several years from the mid-1850s to early 1860s. [...]
Thomas Onwhyn’s Beach Comics: Miss Fanny at the Sea Side, 1856
We resume our run of comic artist Thomas Onwhyn‘s series of Victorian beach cartoon booklets, with Miss Fanny at the Sea Side, created or published on March 30th, 1856. Enjoy! Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions. Click here to find our previous postings of [...]
Thomas Onwhyn’s Beach Comics: Master Franky’s Sea Side Sufferings, 1854
Next in our run of Victorian Summer Comics, we have another of artist Thomas Onwhyn‘s small beach comic cartoon booklets, Master Franky’s Sea Side Sufferings, created or published on July 15th, 1854. We’ll be back with another Onwhyn beach booklet in two weeks. Enjoy! Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons [...]
Thomas Onwhyn’s Beach Comics: Our Trip to the Sea Side, 1857
Being the First Day of Summer, we begin this year’s run of Victorian Summer Comics, with Our Trip to the Sea Side, published in 1857. It is one of several small comic booklets involving beach vacations, created by comic artist Thomas Onwhyn in the 1850s. Random panels from several of these pamphlets were later collected [...]
“Cupid & Crinoline”, Thomas Onwhyn 1858
This year for Valentine’s Day, we present the British fold-out comic strip booklet, Cupid & Crinoline. Published on October 20th, 1858, creator Thomas Onwhyn parodies the impediment to romance that the popular women’s fashion known as a “hoop skirt”, or, “Crinoline”, imposed. Click here to find previous Valentine’s Day postings. To complete the story (never [...]
Early Comic Books Revue
Above, extracted from Fun magazine, July 2nd, 1879, The Book Borrower, by artist James Sullivan. Click on it, to enlarge it to readable size. This being San Diego Comic Con weekend, when better than to look back at a few of the 19th & early 20th century comic books that can be found here on [...]
Thomas Onwhyn’s Royal Sea Side Albums, 1860
In 1860 Britain, artist Thomas Onwhyn published in small fold-out albums, comic postcards of a family’s summer trip to the beach. Beach vacations were still a relatively new concept at this time. Many people eased their way out into the strange, exotic waves, with the aid of wagons, and workers, who helped people down into the frightening open [...]
