B.F. Keith’s Theatre, 1911 Philadelphia Vaudeville
Next in our series on theatrical cartoons, we feature a small sampling of pages extracted from a souvenir booklet (given away? sold?) in 1911, in the B.F. Keith’s Philadelphia theatre. Benjamin Franklin Keith owned a chain of theatres in the northeast U.S., in which he featured a travelling circuit of vaudeville acts. Artist Charles Bell [...]
Mutt & Jeff & Bud
We have something very special for this week’s T.G.I.F. Action The Flying FLICK. Everyday I go to my fave blog, Cartoon Brew, to see what fascinations Jerry Beck and Amid Amidi turn up. Jerry is a big, valued, supporter of Yoe Books and The ITCH Blog. Jerry just sent me this incredible treasure he found. [...]
Gag Me with a Toon!
Famed Disney Legend Dick Huemer started in animation at the Roule Barre Studio in 1916 in NYC doing adaptations of Bud Fisher’s Mutt and Jeff. He then moved on to Fleischer Studio in 1923, where it is said he developed Koko the Clown. Eventually Huemer spent most of the last part of his career at [...]
Moola & Ooh-la-la!
Li’l Abner’s creator, Al Capp, on why he chose a career in cartooning: “I heard Bud (Mutt and Jeff) Fisher got $3,000 a week and was constantly marrying French countesses!”
That’s Horse Cents!
In 1907, Bud Fisher drew the first successful daily comic strip, Mutt and Jeff, starting out at just $15.00 per week. This strip about the race track soon became so successful and eventually made him so rich that he became the owner of the largest stable of thoroughbred horses in America! Hey, didja notice how [...]
Mutt and Jeff’s Creator Stages a “PC” Protest-in 1919!
I was reading just now an interesting round-up on Dirk Deppy’s Journalista and also The Comics Reporter and The Daily Cartoonist about Sunday’s print protest by “Cartoonists of Color” on how their strips are perceived by editors and the public. The strips these cartoonists drew on the subject, and some of the discussion that has [...]
They Had A Gay Old Time
Some Arf Lovers were shocked at the picture I ran yesterday of Mutt and Jeff. Though it is not generally talked about I thought everyone knew of Mutt and Jeff’s homosexual relationship. Batman and Robin were hardly the first gay duo in comics. In fact, since Mutt and Jeff’s adventures were chronicled in the first [...]
