Category Archives: Gustave Verbeek

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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Gustave Verbeek: The Chicken Girl

Posted on June 4, 2011 by

Hartmann, Sadakichi. A History of American Art. Boston: L.C. Page, vol. 2, p. 129.

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Gustave Verbeek: The Boy, the Snowball, and the Cat

Posted on June 3, 2011 by

Harper’s Magazine, vol. 94, issue 562, March 1897, p. 655.

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Verbeek's Botanies

Posted on September 9, 2009 by

Sunday Press has announced the availability of their new collection reprinting in full colour the whole run of  Gustave Verbeek’s The Upside-Downs of Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo, the late Terrors of the Tiny Tads, as well the first … Continue reading →

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Here Comes the Rockefellerphant

Posted on April 18, 2009 by

In a previous post I noted a rare instance of contemporary reference in Gustave Verbeek’s Terrors of the Tiny Tads. Here is another from the strip for 19 May 1907, a few weeks after the appearance of the “Cowboisterous Kangaroosevelt … Continue reading →

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The Cowboysterous Kangaroosevelt Bear

Posted on December 28, 2008 by

Theodore Roosevelt‘s refusal, in 1902, to shoot an imprisoned bear spawned a long series of political cartoons and, since the bound animal was often represented as a cub, and brought to the creation of the Teddy Bear. Roosevelt’s hunting mania … Continue reading →

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