Category Archives: Comics

The Cockatoostep and the Caterwaltz

Posted on May 18, 2012 by

More Terrors of the Tiny Tads by Gustave Verbeek, from 15 February 1914:

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Unnatural History Lessons

Posted on May 16, 2012 by

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

Posted on May 9, 2012 by

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.

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… and More Tiny Tads

Posted on May 3, 2012 by

A late, and, I’m sorry to say, very misogynistic episode of the Terrors of the Tiny Tads by Gustave Verbeek; 28 June 1914:

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More Naps

Posted on May 2, 2012 by

Here is another colour full page of The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead by Peter Newell; for 8 April 1906.

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Jimmy Swinnerton’s Mother Goose

Posted on May 1, 2012 by

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 →

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Awful Protection against Midges

Posted on March 1, 2012 by

John Everett Millais, Awful Protection against Midges, 1853. Pen and sepia ink on paper. Signed with monogram, inscribed and dated 1853. This drawing comes from a series of about twenty-five amusing records that Millais made as a visual diary of … Continue reading →

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Two More Looloos

Posted on January 24, 2012 by

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 →

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A Peter Newell Gag Cartoon

Posted on December 11, 2011 by

Newell, Peter. [ORIGINAL DRAWINGS, SIGNED] Two-Panel Black Gag Cartoon. New York: 1892. Original pen and ink drawings.  One signed in ink, one in pencil.   Source unknown, but perhaps the illustrations were for one of the magazines that Newell drew for: … Continue reading →

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Peter Newell, A Fool’s Cap & a Plate of Ice Cream

Posted on September 9, 2011 by

The following strip is from Peter Newell’s original drawings for a story that was published in Harper’s Bazaar 29.312, 4 April 1896; from the Library of Congress’s Cabinet of American Illustration.

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