Tag 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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