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Tag Archives: Helen Stilwell
Rube Goldberg, Animales raros para recortar (1933)
Rube Goldberg, from Tit-Bits, 15 April 1933. Aventuras de Boborikin ran in the Argentinian magazine Tit-Bits at least from 1932 to 1934. This collection of invented animals is reminiscent of The Laughable Looloos by Helen Stilwell, Goldberg’s screwball-comics collegue, Gene Carr’s … Continue reading
A New Looloo
One of Helen Stilwell’s Looloos, part of a series publshed in the New York World Sunday Magazine in 1906. This one appears to have been a postcard. For more information and several other examples, see here and in the Nonsense in … Continue reading
Two More Looloos
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