Category Archives: Peter Newell

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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Polly Sleepyhead and the Screen

Posted on April 27, 2012 by

A few years ago I put online an almost complete set of Peter Newell’s comic-strip series, The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead, which appeared in the Chicago Tribune and in a few other newspapers from 25 February 1906 to 22 September … 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, The Solution

Posted on October 16, 2011 by

Peter Newell in Harper’s New Magazine, vol. 97, June 1898, p. 159.

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The Ass and the Lapdog

Posted on October 15, 2011 by

A Woolly little terrier pup Gave vent to yelps distressing, Whereat his mistress took him up, And soothed him with caressing:— And yet he was not in the least What one would call a handsome beast. He might have been … Continue reading →

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A Yawning Yallergator

Posted on October 14, 2011 by

Peter Newell, from Harper’s Bazaar, I don’t know the date or issue no.

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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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Turn Me Over

Posted on July 21, 2011 by

Allan Holtz’s Stripper’s Guide blog has just posted several samples of Charles Lederer’s 1923 cartoon series, Turn Me Over These are no masterpieces, but as Allan notes, Lederer was quite old when he drew them; he also mentions another series … Continue reading →

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Peter Newell: At School

Posted on June 6, 2011 by

Johnny broke the rule to-day by fighting with his brother Then his teacher, strange to say, straightway broke another. Harper’s Young People, vol 15, issue 735, 28 November 1893, p. 72.

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Peter Newell: A Careful Mother

Posted on June 5, 2011 by

“Good -morning, Mistress Nanny Goat, The kids quite well appear.” “The kids, sit? I would have you note I’ll have no slang in here.” Harper’s Young People, vol 15, issue 742, 16 January 1894, p. 208.

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