The Adventures of Willie Winters
Continuing our theme of 1912-published comic books, that might have been found beneath the Christmas Tree, one solution for parents on a tight budget, may have been (assumed) premium comic book (given away with x puchases (??) of Kelloggs Toasted Corn Flakes), The Adventures of Willie Winters, by Byron Williams and Dearborn Melvill. Click on [...]
Professor Jim Crack’s Amazing Discoveries, Part 2: Tigwissel Tuesdays #42
With Thanksgiving approaching, we look again to the series of “scientific experiments” involving Old American Whiskey, as illustrated in the circa 1936-1937 giveaway promotional comic booklet, Professor Jim Crack’s Amazing Discoveries! Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions. To view prior episodes of Tigwissel Tuesdays, [...]
Selling Out the Red Man: American Advertisers Portray the Natives, Part 2
WARNING: The following cartoons contain racist imagery and slurs. Resuming our Native American Heritage Month postings, we start above with a sequence of circa 1870s/1880s trade cards, advertising R.W. Bell’s Buffalo Soap. This sequence follows a 19th century racist theme common in soap advertising, most often seen involving African Americans, but here, using an American [...]
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 [...]
Women’s Suffrage: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 4 + Themes Revue
Above & below, from the July 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, are a couple pages of cartoons on the subject of Women’s Suffrage. Above, American cartoons, including one by Robert Satterfield; beneath, two views from the Italian comic publication, Turin Fischietto. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and [...]
Professor Jim Crack’s Amazing Discoveries: Tigwissel Tuesdays, Part 26
This being the day before our annual national party, what better time to run a few extracts from the circa 1936-1937 booklet, Professor Jim Crack’s Amazing Discoveries! This small advertising booklet was put out by Old American Brand Whiskies, showing the Professor engaged in a series of “scientific experiments” involving his testing the properties of [...]
The Untimely End of Daddy, 1882
Above, The Untimely End of Daddy, an 1882 set of Victorian trading cards which together form a short comic strip story. These cards were sold to various merchants, who would print their own advertisements on the back of the cards, then give them away to customers, who, wanting the entire story, would hopefully come back [...]
Selling of the Black Man: 19th Century Comic Strip Advertising
WARNING: The below 19th century cartoons contain racist imagery and slurs. No, not slavery. But a few examples (above & below) of late 19th century comic strip advertising, a mere ten to twenty years after the end of slavery. White advertisers played to the established prejudices of their mostly white customers, showing African Americans in [...]
Cartoons Magazine Centennial, February 1912, Part 1
We continue our celebration of Cartoons Magazine‘s Centennial, with the first of several extracts from its second issue, of February 1912. One notable addition from issue one, is a monthly focus hilighting specific cartoonists. This month, the spotlight is placed on John T. McCutcheon. McCutcheon created the above cover, depicting cartoonists of different nationalities drawing [...]
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 [...]
