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Polly Sleepyhead Passes Through a Small Cyclone
Another late strip from Peter Newell‘s series Polly Sleepyhead; it is from 1907, but I do not know the date:
Polly Sleepyhead and the Screen
A few years ago I put online an almost complete set of Peter Newell’s comic-strip series, The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead, which appeared in the Chicago Tribune and in a few other newspapers from 25 February 1906 to 22 September … Continue reading
Polly Sleepyhead
My translation of the early episodes of Peter Newell’s Naps of Polly Sleepyhead will be in Italian libraries next week, and the publisher, orecchio acerbo, has a book trailer on YouTube: This is going to be in the Little Big … Continue reading
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Peter Newell’s Wishing Willy
In addition to The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead (1906-1907), Peter Newell produced a second newspaper strip, Wishing Willie (or Willy), published in a few papers, e.g. the Atlanta Constitution, between 3 August and 7 September 1913: a grand total of six … Continue reading
No More Naps for Polly
In the last episodes of Peter Newell’s The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead the naps disappear, not only from the title: she is now the intended victim of Tom and Dicky’s practical jokes, but she regularly manages to inadvertedly turn the … Continue reading
Peter Newell, Polly and Her Papa
Peter Newell’s strip “The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead” for 22 April 1906.
More Naps
Here is another colour full page of The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead by Peter Newell; for 8 April 1906.
nonsenselit.org is online!
On 12 May 2004, Edward Lear’s birthday, I am at last releasing the new portal for Nonsense literature. The Lear pages do not contain anything new, updating and renewing them is my next project, but you should find lots of … Continue reading
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