Category Archives: Gustave Verbeek

Alfred Z. Baker’s Images à renversement

Posted on April 19, 2013 by

Antoine Sausverd over at Töpfferiana has unearthed some contributions by Alfred Zantzinger Baker to the French children’s magazine La jeunesse illustré, 1906-1907 (Gallica). I have now created a set of pages which, besides providing information on Baker and his toy … Continue reading →

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The Padloctopus and the Alligatorang-oorang

Posted on February 9, 2013 by

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):

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The Tiny Tads Meet the Piccoloafer and the Magpiano

Posted on October 9, 2012 by

Gustave Verbeek’s The Terrors of the Tiny Tads strip for 17 September 1913, from the Boston Sunday Post.

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Gustave Verbeek, Pelicanned Tomatoes

Posted on June 27, 2012 by

Boston Sunday Post, 31 August 1913.

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Gustave Verbeek, Philander and His Rocking Horse

Posted on June 25, 2012 by

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:

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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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Mademoiselle Cinderellephant

Posted on April 28, 2012 by

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 →

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