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Unnatural History Lessons
The early newspaper comic supplements used a wide variety of materials to fill their pages, among them alphabets — which could be put to several uses: satiric or purely nonsensical — seem to have been particularly appreciated. Here is an … Continue reading
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OED Word of the Day: Guess
The Word of the Day for the Oxford English Dictionary is, of course, … Runcible! Don’t miss the Oxford Dictionaries blog post: Higher-cynths, lower-cynths, and Seeze Pyders: why Lear’s ‘nonsense’ language is more than just fun A screen capture, as … Continue reading
Bicentenary
The day of Edward Lear’s 200th birthday has come and celebrations are everywhere on the web. Google, with its beautiful doodle, has stimulated interest in the tech sector (also), too. It is mentioned by the Guardian, which also published a … Continue reading
Edward Lear’s Bicentennial Events
The day of Lear’s 200th birthday is approaching and there will be events for all tastes. But first, registration is now open for the September Edward Lear Conference at Jesus College, Oxford: here you can find the details and register. … Continue reading
A Story without Words
Gustave Verbeek’s Stories without Words, from the Public Ledger, Philadelphia, for Sunday 13 June 1909. The series reprints strips that had already been published in magazines years before.
… and More Tiny Tads
A late, and, I’m sorry to say, very misogynistic episode of the Terrors of the Tiny Tads by Gustave Verbeek; 28 June 1914:
More Naps
Here is another colour full page of The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead by Peter Newell; for 8 April 1906.
Jimmy Swinnerton’s Mother Goose
The early comics supplements in American newspapers often used traditional nonsense and nursery rhymes to fill their pages. Here is an example of an updated version of Mother Goose rhymes by one of the pioneers of comics, Jimmy Swinnerton; it … Continue reading
Edward Lear and Crete
Stephen Duckworth has now created a website to supplement his recent article on “Edward Lear and Crete” (New Griffon 12). It provides plenty of information on Lear’s seven-week stay on the island and also contains a section of pictures, as … Continue reading
Mademoiselle Cinderellephant
Here is a nice adventure of Gustave Verbeek‘s Tiny Tads, from the Boston Sunday Post of 13 July 1913: Peter Maresca’s Sunday Press has published The Upside-Down World of Gustave Verbeek (for which I wrote an article I’ll post here … Continue reading
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