Tag Archives: Gustave Verbeek

Gustave Verbeek’s Twinklies

Posted on September 13, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

It seems I missed this important post on Gustave Verbeek (or Verbeck as the preferred spelling now seems to be) from the Stripper’s Guide in the series of Ink-Slinger Profiles by Alex Jay: Gustave Verbeck. Here are three strips from Verbeek’s … Continue reading →

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Gustave Verbeek, The Hunter’s Strategy

Posted on September 10, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Harper’s Round Table, vol. 18, 15 December 1896, p. 164.

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Gustave Verbeek before the Comics

Posted on September 9, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Neuvième Art 2.0, the online magazine of the Cité internationale de la bande dessinée e de l’image has a long, interesting article on Gustave Verbeek (or Verbeck as the author, prefers to call him): Christian Staebler, “Gustave Verbeck, la quintessence … Continue reading →

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Technical Tendencies of Caricature (illustrated by G. Verbeek)

Posted on February 8, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Henry McBride & Gustave Verbeck, “Technical Tendencies of Caricature.” The Monthly Illustrator, Vol. 4, No. 13, May 1895, pp. 215-219.

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The First Terror of the Tiny Tads

Posted on August 8, 2014 by Marco Graziosi

First instalment of Gustave Verbeek’s Terrors of the Tiny Tads, May 28, 1905. On Verbeek here and at nonsenselit.org. From Peter Maresca’s Origin of Sunday Comics series.

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The Gook

Posted on July 17, 2014 by Marco Graziosi

Gustave Verbeek‘s Loony Lyrics of Lulu, 17 July – 23 October 1910, presented an adventure of Lulu and her “papa” with a fantastic animal described in the last panel in a limerick composed by Lulu, a real tour de force, as … Continue reading →

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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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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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