Tag Archives: Comics

The Tiny Tads Visit the Butterflybrary

Posted on January 5, 2014 by Marco Graziosi

  Another unusual adventure of Gustave Verbeek’s Tiny Tads from 1910.

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The Tiny Tads Travel to the Clouds

Posted on January 3, 2014 by Marco Graziosi

An unusual 1910 episode from Gustave Verbeek’s Terrors of the Tiny Tads. Society is Nix from Sunday Press, which I mentioned in the previous post, has been reviewed in the New York Review of Books blog.

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Gustave Verbeek’s Cruel Tales and the Nonsense Tradition

Posted on January 1, 2014 by Marco Graziosi

[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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A Choice Collection of Queens and Kings, and other Things

Posted on September 16, 2013 by Marco Graziosi

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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Alfred Z. Baker’s Images à renversement

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Marco Graziosi

Antoine Sausverd over at Töpfferiana has unearthed some contributions by Alfred Zantzinger Baker to the French children’s magazine La jeunesse illustré, 1906-1907 (Gallica). I have now created a set of pages which, besides providing information on Baker and his toy … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear’s Romulus and Remus

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Marco Graziosi

The following is another picture story available from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, where you will find higher resolution scans. It is the incomplete (or unfinished) companion to Edward Lear’s other Roman history: The Tragical Life and Death of … Continue reading →

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Mr Lear Recovers his Hat

Posted on March 31, 2013 by Marco Graziosi

I have updated the Manuscripts page with information on the Edward Lear material available at the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library. Among the many items which are also part of the Beinecke Digital Collections are at least three picture … Continue reading →

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The Padloctopus and the Alligatorang-oorang

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Marco Graziosi

Here is the 15 March 1914 strip for Gustave Verbeek‘s Terrors of the Tiny Tads; below an example of Thornton Fisher’s The Wishing Wisp (see yesterday’s post):

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Polly Sleepyhead Passes Through a Small Cyclone

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Marco Graziosi

Another late strip from Peter Newell‘s series Polly Sleepyhead; it is from 1907, but I do not know the date:

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More Wishing Willy

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Marco Graziosi

Here is the second episode of Peter Newell’s Wishing Willy, I do not have any more, though there were six, if Allan Holtz‘s American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide is correct. Help in finding the missing ones (and better scans … Continue reading →

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