Tigwissel Tuesdays #14: Tigwissel Jumps the Graphic, December 11th, 1875
We find the seventh appearance of Professor Tigwissel — comic artist Livingston Hopkins‘ re-occurring sequential cartoon strip character — not in Tigwissel’s usual home (New York’s Daily Graphic). Rather, this week’s Tigwissel — titled Professor Tigwissel’s Trip Up the Nile — appeared on the rear page of the December 11th, 1875 issue of Frank Leslie’s [...]
Tigwissel Tuesdays #12: Professor Tigwissel’s Fashion Statement, September 25th, 1875
The sixth appearance of artist Livingston Hopkins‘ continuing comic strip character, Professor Tigwissel, was a two-panel cameo in the above September 25th, 1875 (New York) Daily Graphic cartoon. Titled The Calendar of Fashion — Calling in the White Hats, it’s a commentary on the apparent 1870s fashion faux-pas, of wearing white hats beyond Summer. (Click [...]
Tigwissel Tuesdays #10: Professor Tigwissel’s Burglar Alarm, September 11th, 1875
We come now, to the moment of some gnashing of teeth. Professor Tigwissel’s Burglar Alarm. Published on the front page of the September 11th, 1875 edition of the (New York) Daily Graphic. The fifth published appearance of artist Livingston Hopkins’ recurring comic strip character, Professor Tigwissel. Let me repeat for emphasis — the fifth appearance. [...]
Tigwissel Tuesdays #8.5: Sydney Bulletin Re-Do
This week’s Tigwissel Tuesdays is a “Re-Do” in two ways. The above page was originally a re-do by artist Livingston Hopkins, when, for the above cartoon in the April 14th, 1884 Sydney Bulletin, he swiped from his own art — reusing bits from his 1st Professor Tigwissel comic strip found in the May 28th, 1875 [...]
Tigwissel Tuesdays #8: Midsummer Musings, August 7th, 1875
The fourth published appearance of Professor Tigwissel, is found in an interior page of the August 7th, 1875 edition of the (New York) Daily Graphic. In Midsummer Musings by our Cynical Artist, Livingston Hopkins has assigned Tigwissel only a cameo role consisting of two of the near dozen cartoon panels. Tigwissel’s use here seems forced [...]
Tigwissel Tuesdays #7: Professor Tigwissel’s Arctic Experience, July 28th, 1875
Professor Tigwissel‘s third published adventure — Professor Tigwissel’s Arctic Experience — appeared on July 28th, 1875, on the front page of that day’s (New York) Daily Graphic. Tigwissel creator — comic artist Livingston Hopkins — took his inspiration from contemporary accounts of Polar explorers (and popular cartoon parodies of same). Concocting a polar scenario during [...]
Tigwissel Tuesdays #5: Professor Tigwissel vs. Dr. Jingo, July 3, 2025
With Professor Tigwissel’s second comedic adventure, Livingston Hopkins cements the funny-sounding name and bespectacled egg-head design of the character to which Hopkins repeatedly return to for parodies involving in inventors, academics, scientists, and explorers. On this second appearance, though, it was not yet clear that readers would (sporadically) be seeing Tigwissel again and again, over [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
