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 [...]
Tigwissel Tuesdays #3: Livingston Hopkins Gets His Head Examined, Feb 22, 2026
Just a quickie this week, as we continue our chronological march towards to the first full-fledged Professor Tigwissel adventure (next week!) Above, a close-up from the bottom right corner of a full-page of cartoons by artist Livingston Hopkins, which appeared on the front of the February 22nd, 1875 issue of the (New York) Daily Graphic. [...]
Tigwissel Tuesdays #2: Professor Simple’s “Tales of the Comet”, July 8th, 1874
Above, we continue our study in the evolution of comic artist Livingston Hopkins’ recurring comic strip character, Professor Tigwissel, with the second appearance of Hopkins’ Tigwissel-prototype, Professor Simple. This occurrence — titled “Tales of the Comet” — appeared on the front page of the July 8th, 1874 edition of the (New York) Daily Graphic, eleven [...]
Tigwissel Tuesdays #1: Professor Simple’s Baseless Vision, August 6, 2025
Multiple sources make note of 19th century comic artist Livingston Hopkins‘ continuing comic strip character Professor Tigwissel (often getting dates wrong, facts wrong, failing to name their sources, and — with most making the same mistakes — obviously stealing info from each other rather than conducting any research themselves). None that I’ve seen, however, mentions [...]
