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Category Archives: Comics
Gustave Verbeek’s Cruel Tales and the Nonsense Tradition
[I wrote this short article for The Upside-Down World of Gustave Verbeek: The Complete Sunday Comics 1903-1905, edited by Peter Maresca, foreword by Martin Gardner. Palo Alto, CA: Sunday Press Books, 2009, where it appeared under the title “Verbeek’s Loony Lyrics … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, Comics, Edward Lear, Gustave Verbeek, Lewis Carroll, Limerick, nonsense rhymes, Peter Newell, visual illusion
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A Choice Collection of Queens and Kings, and other Things
In February 2011 I posted a review of some Christmas books for 1874, “Nonsense for Big and Little Babies” from Judy. Among the books reviewed was A Choice Collection of Queens and Kings, and other Things by S.A. the Princess Hesse Schwartzbourg, … Continue reading
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Tagged caricature, Comics, Edward Lear, Marie Duval, nonsense rhymes
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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:
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
The Tiny Tads Meet the Piccoloafer and the Magpiano
Gustave Verbeek’s The Terrors of the Tiny Tads strip for 17 September 1913, from the Boston Sunday Post.
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The Cockatoostep and the Caterwaltz
More Terrors of the Tiny Tads by Gustave Verbeek, from 15 February 1914:
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
Posted in Comics, Edward Lear, Gustave Verbeek, Lewis Carroll
Tagged animals, Comics, Edward Lear, Gustave Verbeek, Lewis Carroll
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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.
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