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- How Pleasant to Know Mr Lear (1932)
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Category Archives: Comics
Polly Sleepyhead Passes Through a Small Cyclone
Another late strip from Peter Newell‘s series Polly Sleepyhead; it is from 1907, but I do not know the date:
No More Naps for Polly
In the last episodes of Peter Newell’s The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead the naps disappear, not only from the title: she is now the intended victim of Tom and Dicky’s practical jokes, but she regularly manages to inadvertedly turn the … Continue reading
The Tiny Tads Meet the Piccoloafer and the Magpiano
Gustave Verbeek’s The Terrors of the Tiny Tads strip for 17 September 1913, from the Boston Sunday Post.
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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:
More Naps
Here is another colour full page of The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead by Peter Newell; for 8 April 1906.
Jimmy Swinnerton’s Mother Goose
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
