Tag Archives: Comics

Jimmy Swinnerton’s Mother Goose

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Marco Graziosi

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 →

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Mademoiselle Cinderellephant

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Marco Graziosi

Here is a nice adventure of Gustave Verbeek‘s Tiny Tads, from the Boston Sunday Post of 13 July 1913: Peter Maresca’s Sunday Press has published The Upside-Down World of Gustave Verbeek (for which I wrote an article I’ll post here … Continue reading →

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Polly Sleepyhead and the Screen

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Marco Graziosi

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 →

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Awful Protection against Midges

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Marco Graziosi

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 →

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Two More Looloos

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Marco Graziosi

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 →

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Turn Me Over

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

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 →

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The Earliest Recording of The Owl and the Pussy-cat

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

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

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

Bob Addams, “Two Thumbnail Studies in Un-natural History.” The Metropolitan Magazine, vol. 22, no. 6, September 1905, p. 740.

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The Pobble Comic

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

Lucy Knisley has drawn her own comic strip version of Edward Lear’s “The Pobble Who Has No Toes.” Meanwhile, over at The Guardian, “The Dong with a Luminous Nose” is one of “The Ten Best Noses in Literature.”

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The Frog and the Duck: A Romance

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Marco Graziosi

George du Maurier “took, in 1869-1870, a brief Darwinian respite from his usual labors of satirizing the Victorian drawing room” and, among other things, produced an “unusually extensive and charmingly anthropomorphic picture-story” (Kunzle 293), which appeared in three fortnightly instalments … Continue reading →

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