December 2011
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Who Was That Masked Ghost? Friday Comic Book Day. Continuing the Bob Lubbers theme of this week, I have some of his ealry comic book work. All through the late forties he worked on all sorts of…
Dec 30th
Obscurity of the Day, Disqualified Division: Do... →
One of the entries on my E&P Mystery List is Do You Believe, a feature listed in their directories from 1955-1962 as a daily panel cartoon by…
Dec 30th
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A Lot Of BL Thursday Story Strip Day. Having shown a lot of Bob Lubbers’ work the last few weeks, I thought I’d go an collect what I have of his late 1959 Saint run. he did this, while he was…
Dec 29th
Harry Murphy →
Not much is known about Harry Murphy except that he was the first editorial cartoonist for the Morning Oregonian. During WWI he was employed by Hearst’s Chicago Examiner on the…
Dec 27th
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Long Live The King Tuesday Comic Strip Day. I am sorry to see that the King Aoo reprint series from IDW was either discontunued or put on hold. Here are some new Sunday color scans and…
Dec 27th
News of Yore: George Swanson →
Comic Strip Artist ‘Kidded’ Into Profession George Swanson Creator of ‘Flop Family’ Calls Wife Severest Critic Herald Statesman (Yonkers, New York) 8/1/1962
Dec 27th
Palooka Christmas 1941 →
Dec 26th
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The Fastest Inkslingers in the West Sunday Meskin Measures. Meskin and Robinson doing what they did best.
Dec 26th
Merry Christmas from Jim Ivey and Stripper's Guide →
Dec 26th
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One Man’s Accident Saturday Leftover Day. Here is some more of the Juliet Jones stoy I started thursday. I have since seen (in the second volume of reprint series by classiccomicpress) that the…
Dec 25th
The Magic Christmas Tree Part VI →
Dec 25th
Christmas with the Cartoonists →
Dec 24th
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Orange and Purple Haze Friday Comic Book Day. I am still getting together the rest of the Juliet Jones story for tomorrow. So here are two more Stan Lee/George Tuska wester stories. Not the best…
Dec 24th
Round the World with Jack the Ripper →
Jack the Ripper in novels from London, America and Sweden. Images…
Dec 22nd
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Would You Walk A Mile For This Man? Wednesday Advertising Day. One of the goals I set myself when I started this blog, was to show and collect as many of the Sgt. Bilko ads for Camel…
Dec 22nd
The Magic Christmas Tree Part IV →
Dec 22nd
Harry Hazleton →
HARRY HAZLETON is an interesting author to me because he has for many years been said to have written Charley Wag, the New Jack Sheppard by the author of “The Woman with the Yellow…
Dec 21st
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Rent Boys Tuesday Comic Strip Day. Mrs. Fitz’s Flat was often only as funny as it’s gags. Fortunately for the first couple of years they were made by the Mort Walker team, which then were at the…
Dec 21st
The Magic Christmas Tree Part II →
Dec 21st
The Christmas Post 2011 →
Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah to all my readers! The record cover pictured here is one of those childhood memories that refuse to leave the brain. The song “Practice Makes Perfect”, on…
Dec 20th
Odds and Ends of Caricature →
Gilbert Abbott A’Becket Frank Bellew from Diogenes Hys Lantern
Dec 20th
Morbid Books for Babes →
LittleWillie from the mirror licked the mercury right off. Thinking in his childish error it would cure the whooping cough. At the funeral Willie’s mother sadly said to Mrs. Brown:“
Dec 19th
Jim Ivey's Sunday Comics →
Dec 19th
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As Good As They Got Sunday Meskin Measures. Another Meskin/Robinson gem. This is what it has all been leading up to, folks.
Dec 18th
Herriman Saturday →
Monday, February 24 1908 — Herriman takes a day off from boxing coverage on the sports page to shine the light on the many beach cities near L.A. offering excellent angling…
Dec 17th
Ink-Slinger Profile: Eddie Eksergian →
Edward “Eddie” Eksergian was born in Turkey in February 1873, according to the 1900 U.S. Federal Census. The census said he emigrated to America in the year of his birth, however, his…
Dec 16th
Alley Oop - 1988 →
ilovecomix updated gallery ‘Alley Oop - 1988’
Dec 16th
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Odd For Odd’s Sake Thursday Story Strip Day. Here’s a real oddity I came across. There were many strips in the late forties using hollywood and starlets as a name of a bass set-up. Patsy in…
Dec 16th
George Herriman Remembers →
“KRAZY KAT” Salt Lake Telegram 31 May 1920. Krazy Kat, the famous comic creation of George Herriman, has provided merriment for millions over a period of ten years. On…
Dec 15th
Obscurity of the Day: The Gee Whiz Brothers →
Sometimes I’d swear cartoonists from the days of yore liked to play tricks directed at future historians. Case in point — look at the two strips above and decide if they…
Dec 14th
Ink-Slinger Profiles: R.E. Schad →
Ross Earle Schad was born in San Francisco, California on March 4, 1884, according to his World War I and II draft cards. In the 1900 U.S. Federal Census, he was the oldest of three children…
Dec 13th
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12-04-11 →
ilovecomix updated gallery ‘12-04-11’
Dec 13th
Busy Days for "Silas" →
THESE ARE BUSY DAYS FOR “SILAS” What with Vaudeville Engagements and Rarebit Dreams Winsor McCay is Kept Hustling. New York Evening Telegram 28 Oct 1906. Winsor McCay, the…
Dec 13th
D#126 - Return of the Mirror People →
My 100th Daily upload! Number of comics in the archive: 158 Next upload: S#061 - The Mountain that Walked
Dec 13th
James A. Bland (1854-1911) →
“Encyclopedists and historians of the American Stage have slighted the old Negro minstrels while making much of the burnt cork artists who imitated them. But Negroes were the originators…
Dec 12th
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Here’s To You, Mr. Robinson Sunday Meskin and Robinson This week comic book and newspaper strip artist Jerry Robinson died. He has been ulogized all over the web and I will be adding a personal…
Dec 12th
Jim Ivey's Sunday Comics →
Dec 12th
12-01-11 →
ilovecomix updated gallery ‘12-01-11’
Dec 11th
Herriman Saturday →
Sunday, February 23 1908 — A huge Herriman cartoon snakes around a full page article about Frank Wiggins, the head man at the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. Wiggins is an indefatigable…
Dec 10th
Editorial Illustration →
Chicago Examiner Editorial Pages by Winsor McCay and Robert Carter
Dec 9th
Obscurity of the Day: Noahzark Hotel →
In 1913 the McClure Syndicate was having a heck of a time getting and retaining cartooning talent, as the market for their readyprint Sunday comic sections was…
Dec 9th
Ink-Slinger Profiles: Charles D. Small →
Charles Desaix Small was born on February 21, 1882, according to his World War I draft card. The Times Record (Troy, New York) said, on February 18, 1953, he was a native of Philadelphia,…
Dec 9th
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Junior Partner Wednesday Illustration Day. Dick Hodgins Jr. is an American cartoonist, who at one point was part of the team doing Hagar the Horrible. I don’t know if he still is, but he could…
Dec 8th
T. E. Powers (1870-1939) →
Tom Powers Sunday “Our Moving Pictures” from the Chicago Examiner. An obituary is HERE.
Dec 8th
Treasury of Classics - 1954 →
ilovecomix updated gallery ‘Treasury of Classics - 1954’
Dec 7th
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Big Gags in Small Packages Tuesday Comic Strip Day. Although it is sad to see that Virgil Partch’s Big George panel and Sundays were not as absurdly funny as his magazine work of the fifties,…
Dec 7th
More “Barkers” From Yowp →
Thanks to Yowp, who downloaded these strips, here are the Barker Bill dailies from 10-18 to 10-30-1954. In the last blog…
Dec 7th
The Dream of a Lobster Fiend →
The Dream of a Lobster Fiend in color 14 Oct 1914, (Chicago Examiner) and various 1912 dailies by Winsor McCay.
Dec 6th
Ink-Slinger Profiles: Jack Smith →
A New York Times obituary, published October 13, 1935, said Jack H. Smith was 66 when he died; his birth was around 1870. He has not been found in the 1870, 1880 and 1900 U.S. Federal…
Dec 6th
Buck Rogers - S062 - D074 - Revolt of the Dwarf... →
ilovecomix updated gallery ‘Buck Rogers - S062 - D074 - Revolt of the Dwarf Prince (04/08/60 - 07/10/60)’
Dec 5th