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Tag Archives: Gustave Verbeek
The Padloctopus and the Alligatorang-oorang
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):
Gustave Verbeek, Pelicanned Tomatoes
Boston Sunday Post, 31 August 1913.
Gustave Verbeek, Philander and His Rocking Horse
A very early example of a Verbeek newspaper comic strip, probably recycled from his 1890s French production, the date is 2 December 1900. Notice the signature as VerBeck:
The Cockatoostep and the Caterwaltz
More Terrors of the Tiny Tads by Gustave Verbeek, from 15 February 1914:
Unnatural History Lessons
The early newspaper comic supplements used a wide variety of materials to fill their pages, among them alphabets — which could be put to several uses: satiric or purely nonsensical — seem to have been particularly appreciated. Here is an … Continue reading
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A Story without Words
Gustave Verbeek’s Stories without Words, from the Public Ledger, Philadelphia, for Sunday 13 June 1909. The series reprints strips that had already been published in magazines years before.
… and More Tiny Tads
A late, and, I’m sorry to say, very misogynistic episode of the Terrors of the Tiny Tads by Gustave Verbeek; 28 June 1914:
Mademoiselle Cinderellephant
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
Gustave Verbeek: The Chicken Girl
Hartmann, Sadakichi. A History of American Art. Boston: L.C. Page, vol. 2, p. 129.
Gustave Verbeek: The Boy, the Snowball, and the Cat
Harper’s Magazine, vol. 94, issue 562, March 1897, p. 655.
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