Canadian 1890 Aboriginal Wit
We continue our Native American Heritage Month coverage, with cartoons & comics by whites, revealing the attitude of white society towards the Americas’ original inhabitants. Above, from the July 12th, 1890 issue of the Canadian comic weekly, Grip, comes Ab-Original Wit — A Brantford Fact. The strip plays on the stereotype of Indians as drunkards, [...]
Three-Way Partying 2!: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, September 1912
Welcome back again, to a look at the days when Mr. & Mrs. America decided to flirt with threeways! Above, voters and Uncle Sam alike, find themselves tangled and rope bound with major Party Animals, the Democratic Donkey, Republican Elephant, and Progressive Party Bull Moose. Art by Bronstrup, Doc Hirer Finch, Harry J. Westerman, and [...]
Pictorial History of Senator Slim’s Voyage to Europe, circa 1855-1860s
As we travel between the two major political party conventions this weekend, it seems a good time to take a look at the politically neutral comic pamphlet, Pictorial History of Senator Slim’s Voyage to Europe, with sequential art by John McLenan. The Victorian Age section of the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, gives a publication [...]
Woodrow Wilson: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, June 1912, Part 5
Above, from the June 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, cartoonists Charles Bowers, R.D. Handy, and others, depict the efforts by others to prevent Woodrow Wilson from winning the Democratic nomination for President. Of particular interest, is Handy’s depiction of William Randolph Hearst as the Yellow Kid (an dress cartoonists had been sticking Yellow Kid‘s publisher [...]
“Colonial Slavery”, 1830: African American History Month & Pre-YK Talkies
WARNING: The below comic strip contains racist imagery and slurs. Above, Colonial Slavery, by artist William Heath, from issue #8, August, 1830, of the British cartoon monthly, The Looking Glass. This comic strip parodies the hypocrisy of logic used by the British government, to exonerate the actions of British slave owners in their colony of [...]
Watchin’ Shows # 531
Here are a few fun, historically important pages by pioneering cartoonist and Yellow Kid and Buster Brown creator, Richard Felton Outcault. http://potrzebie.blogspot.com/search/label/outcault Here’s a look at Miss Liberty, the Revolutionary War era heroine who turned up unexpectedly in DC’s Tomahawk. http://sacomics.blogspot.com/2011/12/tomahawk-81.html Not comics really but here’s a rare 1962 book by [...]
Pre-YK Talkies: Parrots, Telephones, and Phonographs
Now that I’ve begun a series of articles intended to reveal all (that I’ve found) appearances of Livingston Hopkins’ recurring comic strip character, Professor Tigwissel (plus Hopkins’ Tigwissel-prototypes), it’s time to resume another Super I.T.C.H. series, Pre-YK Talkies. One major reason I’ve been offended by the insistence in published books & articles, that the comic [...]
Pre-YK Talkies (not): The “Horrid Hellish Popish Plot”
Welcome to Super I.T.C.H.’s first Post-Apocalyptic blog! (For those who weren’t paying attention, the world ended yesterday. But don’t worry, if you missed it, you’ll get a second chance when the world ends again next year!) Those of us not Raptured to safety yesterday, are now to endure Hellish Torment (from Heaven). So, let’s begin [...]
Pre-YK Talkies: White-Bait, by William Heath, 1830
For today, a quick example of yet another “Pre-YK Talkie”. I.e., multi-panel sequential cartoons, told via a combination of pictures plus in-panel dialogue/word balloons, in which the story would not be understood without either the pictures or the in-panel dialogue. Like Donald Trump making claims without evidence or bothering to do research, numerous respected “comics historians” [...]
Pre-YK Talkies: More Advertising Strips
Resuming our series on Pre-YK “Talking” Comic Strips (sequential cartoons wherein the story is conveyed via pictures combined with in-panel dialogue, published prior to the supposed “invention” of same format in the October 25th, 1896 episode of The Yellow Kid), we return with some more examples found amongst Victorian Age cartoon advertising strips. Above, the [...]
