Category Archives: Comics

Animation News

Posted on December 10, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

Animation is one of the liveliest subjects on the Internet at the moment; among the mass of interesting posts, Michael Sporn’s two new articles (1 & 2) on the representations of the blank map in Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of … Continue reading →

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Gustave Verbeek's Monotypes

Posted on October 20, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

I have added an article on Gustave Verbeek‘s monotypes, to which he devoted his efforts after abandoning comics in the 1910s: Hawthorne, Hildegarde. “A New Achievement in an Old Medium: Gustave Verbeek’s Monotypes.” The Century Magazine 92.2, June 1916, 96-102.

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More UPA: Christopher Crumpet

Posted on June 12, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

There are a lot of UPA cartoons on YouTube; I had never seen Christopher Crumpet (1953), another story drawn in a pseudo-simple style reminiscent of Edward Lear with a largely nonsensical tale by T. Hee and Robert Cannon. The cartoon … Continue reading →

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The Unicorn in the Garden

Posted on June 7, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

James Thurber‘s drawings, once extremely popular, place him firmly in the tradition of Edward Lear’s apparently childish illustration, while his stories tend to be mildly satiric or parodistic. One of the most famous of these, The Unicorn in the Garden, … Continue reading →

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Owl and Pussy-Cat in Speed Bump

Posted on April 25, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

Yesterday’s Speed Bump cartoon, by Dave Coverly, had Edward Lear’s Owl and Pussy-Cat as protagonists:

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Where did Nonsense go?

Posted on March 27, 2006 by Marco Graziosi

One of the questions which are often asked about Nonsense is, Why did it disappear almost completely from literature after the great season of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll? As M.B. Heyman writes in his thesis (Isles of Boshen: Edward … Continue reading →

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The Laughable Looloos

Posted on February 20, 2006 by Marco Graziosi

Helen Stilwell’s Laughable Looloos 1906 series is now available in full colour at Nonsense in the Early Comics.

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The Woozlebeasts

Posted on February 16, 2006 by Marco Graziosi

The architect, John Prentiss Benson (1865-1947), had always dreamed of becoming an artist like his older brother Frank. In 1905 he lived in Flushing NY with his wife and four children and worked at his architecture firm of Benson and … Continue reading →

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