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Tag Archives: animals
The Padloctopus and the Alligatorang-oorang
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):
Gustave Verbeek, Pelicanned Tomatoes
Boston Sunday Post, 31 August 1913.
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
Posted in Comics, Edward Lear, Gustave Verbeek, Lewis Carroll
Tagged animals, Comics, Edward Lear, Gustave Verbeek, Lewis Carroll
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Sunset & periwinkles
This enigmatic drawing by Edward Lear is from a set sold at Christie’s on 3 June 2003: LEAR, Edward (1812-1888). An album containing 9 comic and other sketches in pen and ink (one in pencil), together with photographs of Lear’s … Continue reading
Thumbnail Studies in Un-natural History
Bob Addams, “Two Thumbnail Studies in Un-natural History.” The Metropolitan Magazine, vol. 22, no. 6, September 1905, p. 740.
The Day of the Wombat
Peacay of BibliOdyssey posts “some delightful scratchy illustrations from the 1962 book by Ruth Park, ‘The Adventures of the Muddle-headed Wombat’” in honour of Australia Day. So here is my homage. Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s lament for the death of his … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, DG Rossetti, Edward Lear, illustration, Lewis Carroll, Pre-Raphaelites
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