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On Lear and Nonsense
- A Very Good Children’s Book (1865)
- Nonsense Verse, &c. (1880)
- Word-Twisting Versus Nonsense (1887)
- Concerning Nonsense (1889)
- Delightful Nonsense (1890)
- G.K. Chesterton, A Defence of Nonsense (1902)
- The Poems in Alice in Wonderland (1903)
- Limericks (1903)
- Ian Malcolm on Edward Lear (1908)
- G.K. Chesterton, Two Kinds of Paradox (1911)
- H. Jackson, Masters of Nonsense (1912)
- H. Hawthorne, Edward Lear (1916)
- G.K. Chesterton, Child Psychology and Nonsense (1921)
- How Pleasant to Know Mr Lear (1932)
- G.K. Chesterton, Both Sides of the Looking-Glass (1933)
- G.K. Chesterton, Humour (1938)
- G. Orwell, Nonsense Poetry (1945)
- George Orwell, Funny, But Not Vulgar (1945)
- Michele Sala, Lear’s Nonsense: Beyond Children’s Literature
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Category Archives: Comics
… 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
Awful Protection against Midges
John Everett Millais, Awful Protection against Midges, 1853. Pen and sepia ink on paper. Signed with monogram, inscribed and dated 1853. This drawing comes from a series of about twenty-five amusing records that Millais made as a visual diary of … Continue reading
Two More Looloos
I found these two pictures on my hard disk; which I probably saved them from eBay auctions. They are from a set of six postcards from Helen Stilwell’s Laughable Looloos, a series of cartoon that was published in the New … Continue reading
A Peter Newell Gag Cartoon
Newell, Peter. [ORIGINAL DRAWINGS, SIGNED] Two-Panel Black Gag Cartoon. New York: 1892. Original pen and ink drawings. One signed in ink, one in pencil. Source unknown, but perhaps the illustrations were for one of the magazines that Newell drew for: … Continue reading
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Peter Newell, A Fool’s Cap & a Plate of Ice Cream
The following strip is from Peter Newell’s original drawings for a story that was published in Harper’s Bazaar 29.312, 4 April 1896; from the Library of Congress’s Cabinet of American Illustration.
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Turn Me Over
Allan Holtz’s Stripper’s Guide blog has just posted several samples of Charles Lederer’s 1923 cartoon series, Turn Me Over These are no masterpieces, but as Allan notes, Lederer was quite old when he drew them; he also mentions another series … Continue reading
The Earliest Recording of The Owl and the Pussy-cat
The Library of Congress has just launched a new site, National Jukebox, which makes historical recordings available. Among the many jewels is also the Haydn Quartet version of “The Owl and the Pussy-cat.” In a previous post, I had dated … Continue reading
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Thumbnail Studies in Un-natural History
Bob Addams, “Two Thumbnail Studies in Un-natural History.” The Metropolitan Magazine, vol. 22, no. 6, September 1905, p. 740.
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