TODAY’S FEATURED ITEM:

Unattended Baggage brings us some rare F.M. Howarth (author of the wonderful Lulu and Leander strip which I have featured numerous times on this site) cartoons from Scribner’s Magazine. See them here and here. Both Howarth and Frederick Opper (Happy Hooligan) were magazine cartoonists who adopted a simpler style for their transitions to the newspaper comics page (not that Howarth’s style ever looks simple)… I wonder if this was a common phenomenon at the time?

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Here’s another example of F.M. Howarth’s strip The Love of Lulu and Leander from January 31, 1904. Click the image to read the strip. This is the last one of these I have scanned for right now.

You can see more examples of this strip (and many other classic comics) at Barnacle Press.

Here’s another example of F.M. Howarth’s strip The Love of Lulu and Leander from August 19, 1906, in which our big-headed couple is finally married! Click the image to read the strip.

You can see more examples of this strip (and many other classic comics) at Barnacle Press.

Here’s another example of F.M. Howarth’s strip The Love of Lulu and Leander from December 31, 1905. Click the image to read the strip. It’s a full page New Years themed strip with a nice header by a different artist… I don’t know who the artist for it is, though. Anyone out there know?

You can see more examples of this strip (and many other classic comics) at Barnacle Press.

Here’s another example of F.M. Howarth’s strip The Love of Lulu and Leander from September 11, 1904. Click the image to read the strip. It’s a full page strip with a header by Gus Mager of Sherlocko the Monk fame.

You can see more examples of this strip (and many other classic comics) at Barnacle Press.

Here’s another example of F.M. Howarth’s strip The Love of Lulu and Leander from 1904. Click the image to read the strip.

You can see more examples of this strip (and many other classic comics) at Barnacle Press.

Here’s another example of F.M. Howarth’s strip The Love of Lulu and Leander from 1905. Click the image to read the strip.

You can see more examples of this strip (and many other classic comics) at Barnacle Press.

Here’s another example of F.M. Howarth’s strip The Love of Lulu and Leander from 1904. Click the image to read the strip.

You can see more examples of this strip (and many other classic comics) at Barnacle Press.

Here’s another example of F.M. Howarth’s strip The Love of Lulu and Leander from 1904. Click the image to read the strip.

You can see more examples of this strip (and many other classic comics) at Barnacle Press.

Here’s another example of F.M. Howarth’s strip The Love of Lulu and Leander from 1904. Click the image to read the strip.

You can see more examples of this strip (and many other classic comics) at Barnacle Press.