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Category Archives: Peter Newell
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
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, The Solution
Peter Newell in Harper’s New Magazine, vol. 97, June 1898, p. 159.
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The Ass and the Lapdog
A Woolly little terrier pup Gave vent to yelps distressing, Whereat his mistress took him up, And soothed him with caressing:— And yet he was not in the least What one would call a handsome beast. He might have been … Continue reading
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A Yawning Yallergator
Peter Newell, from Harper’s Bazaar, I don’t know the date or issue no.
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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
Peter Newell: At School
Johnny broke the rule to-day by fighting with his brother Then his teacher, strange to say, straightway broke another. Harper’s Young People, vol 15, issue 735, 28 November 1893, p. 72.
Peter Newell: A Careful Mother
“Good -morning, Mistress Nanny Goat, The kids quite well appear.” “The kids, sit? I would have you note I’ll have no slang in here.” Harper’s Young People, vol 15, issue 742, 16 January 1894, p. 208.
Peter Newell: A Valentine
Harper’s Magazine, vol. 94, issue 562, March 1897, p. 654.
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