Buster Brown Kidnapped!, Melville B. Raymond’s 1905 “Buster Brown”, Part 4
It wouldn’t be Mother’s Day, without an R.F. Outcault comic strip of Buster Brown tormenting his mom! Above, “Buster Brown Kidnapped”, scanned from the 1905 promotional giveaway magazine, “Mr. Melville B. Raymond’s Buster Brown”, used to advertise upcoming performances of the touring musical stage play. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the [...]
Cartoonists at the Theatre: Turn to the Right, 1916
We have one more cartoonist-illustrated theater giveaway for April Fools’ Month, advertising the travelling comedic play Turn to the Right, showing at Garrick Theatre in Philadelphia during the Christmas Season. (An internet search shows this play was at that theater during Christmas 1916, so unless it played there in other years on Christmas as well, [...]
Melville B. Raymond’s “Buster Brown” 1905 promotional comic, Part 3
We continue with our April Fools’ Month extracts from the 1905 promotional giveaway magazine, “Mr. Melville B. Raymond’s Buster Brown”, used to advertise upcoming performances of the touring musical stage play. Above & below, two more Buster Brown Sunday comic strips by Richard Felton Outcault, reprinted in the pamphlet. Click on the above & below [...]
Buster Brown Crashes His Own Stage Play, 1905
For today’s April Fools’ Month entry, we have some more extracts scanned from the 1905 promotional giveaway magazine, “Mr. Melville B. Raymond’s Buster Brown”, used to advertise upcoming performances of the touring musical stage play. Above, a self-referential Buster Brown comic strip by his creator, Richard Felton Outcault, poking fun at the Buster Brown stage [...]
Melville B. Raymond’s 1905 “Buster Brown” Musical, Part 1
What would April Fools’ Month be, without its chief prankster, Buster Brown? Buster’s creator, Richard Felton Outcault, turned Buster into one of the earliest mega-merchandised comics characters. Today’s posting is extracted from one of the rarer Buster Brown giveaway comics (and one still not found in the Overstreet listings — I discovered its existence years [...]
Buster Brown’s Lesson in Chemistry: Tigwissel Tuesdays # 22
This week’s comic swipe at science, comes courtesy of writer/artist Richard Felton Outcault, and his creation, Buster Brown. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions. “Yep! It Exploded!” appeared first in the New York Herald Sunday comics section, and then was reprinted in the 1916 [...]
Buster Gets Up to See the Sunrise
I’d initially planned to run one of Buster Brown‘s typically nasty pranks for Mother’s Day, as I’ve done the past two years. But while searching, I came across this even more appropriate story, instead. So, extracted from the 1910 to 1911 collection, Buster Brown’s Fun and Nonsense, is Buster Gets Up to See the Sunrise [...]
Michael Angelo Woolf’s Waif Collections
Michael Angelo Woolf (above, left; born 1837), worked as a cartoonist from the 1850′s, until his death on March 4th, 1899. His work appeared in nearly all of the New York City-published comic periodicals of that period, as well as the many non-comic, but still cartoon carrying, publications by Harper and Frank Leslie. He was [...]
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 [...]
Christmas Waifs 1
Above, Her Small Wish, from the December 1899 issue of Judge’s Library. A monthly magazine, Judge’s Library reprinted material from earlier issues of Judge, organizing each issue by a theme. The December 1899 issue’s title theme was Waifs, and was dominated by the cartoons of Michael Woolf, whose work began appearing in the 1850′s. He [...]
