Click the image for the full strip. This particular strip was done for the “potty humor” sideshow at the upcoming Lutefisk Sushi Volume C art show I am participating in and co-curating with the Cartoonist Conspiracy, Big Time Attic and Altered Esthetics.

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Here’s an example I scanned of the bottom half of the remains of a Jimmy aka Little Jimmy strip from 1904 by Jimmy Swinnerton. This one definitely leaves you wondering what the hell happened in the first half.

Click the image to view the full strip.

Click here to read more examples of Little Jimmy at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read examples of Swinnerton’s Mr. Jack at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read examples of Swinnerton’s Mr. Batch at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read examples of Swinnerton’s Mr. Jack at The Stripper’s Guide

Read an article from 1906 about Jimmy Swinnerton at The Stripper’s Guide.

See an example of Swinnerton’s Mount Ararat (second series) at The Stripper’s Guide.

See examples of Swinnerton’s An Embarrassing Moment at The Stripper’s Guide.

See examples of Swinnerton’s Canyon Kiddies, Mr. Jack, Mount Ararat and Little Jimmy, as well as some of his landscape paintings, on Coconino Classics.

See examples of a variety of strips by Swinnerton at Ohio State University’s Newspaper Cartoon Artists online exhibit.

Click here to read about Jimmy Swinnerton at lambiek.net.

Click here to read more about Little Jimmy at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

Click here to read more about Jimmy Swinnerton at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

Underground cartoonist Jay Lynch (best known for his characters Nard N’ Pat) has been doing some nice collaborations with cartoonist Ed Piskor on some stories about his past adventures with other underground cartoonists… check out this one with Jay Lynch and Robert Crumb visiting Dick Tracy artist Chester Gould. The story about that wall is heartbreaking…

Here are their other collaborations online:

Port Authority (with Art Spiegelman)
Dead Rat (with Skip Williamson)
Monkeymind! (with Justin Green)
White Album (with Spain Rodriguez)
Crumb’s Hat (with Robert Crumb)

Ed Piskor has also collabotated a lot with Harvey Pekar. Check out his other online comics here.

An utterly bizarre Japanese cartoon from 1934, found courtesy of the excellent Cartoon Brew website. A whole lot more interesting information on this can be found in the comments there.

Here is part of a comment there by “EricW”:

This appears to be Komatsuzawa Hajime’s “Toybox Series #3: Picture Book 1936″ (a.k.a. Momotaro vs Mickey Mouse). I found this description at http://www.kinema.uwaterloo.ca/white962.htm: “One very popular cartoon character was Momotaro, the “Peach boy,” who appeared in a number of cartoons designed not just for domestic consumption within Japan, but for propaganda use in occupied countries as well. For example, Picture Book 1936 (Momotaro vs. Mickey Mouse) presented fanged Mickey Mouse look-alikes riding giant bats, attacking peaceful Pacific islanders (represented by cats and dolls, for some reason); the hero Momotaro jumps out of a picture book, repels the American mice, and cherry trees blossom throughout the island as the grateful natives sing “Tokyo Chorus.”

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Here are some of the many illustrations I found from William Wallace Denslow’s Billy Bounce book from 1906, which is presented in its entirety on Google Book Search here.

Denslow is better known as the illustrator of The Wizard of Oz, and he also created the Billy Bounce comic strip. We previously presented some Billy Bounce comic strips from 1903 and 1904 by C.W. Kahles, who followed Denslow on the comic strip feature.

The book being published in 1906 indicates that Denslow must have still had controlling interest of the comic strip feature after his departure from it. It is also interesting to note that none of the other regular characters from the Billy Bounce strip appear to be in the book, although I haven’t read it so I may be wrong.

Although Billy Bounce is pretty thorougly forgotten at this point, in his time he was apparently popular enough to be featured on a wide array of merchandise… including cigars! Read more about Billy Bounce at Toonopedia.

See more Billy Bounce comic strips at Barnacle Press here (by both Denslow and Kahles).

You can download the full book as a pdf here.

Larger versions of all images can be seen by clicking on them, which will take you to the appropriate page of the book on Google Book Search.

Here is by far the most successful (in every way) example of Betty Boop crossing over with characters from the funny pages… the first Popeye cartoon!

Here’s a hilarious example I scanned of Jimmy aka Little Jimmy from 1905 by Jimmy Swinnerton.

Click the image to view the full strip.

Click here to read more examples of Little Jimmy at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read examples of Swinnerton’s Mr. Jack at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read examples of Swinnerton’s Mr. Batch at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read examples of Swinnerton’s Mr. Jack at The Stripper’s Guide

Read an article from 1906 about Jimmy Swinnerton at The Stripper’s Guide.

See an example of Swinnerton’s Mount Ararat (second series) at The Stripper’s Guide.

See examples of Swinnerton’s An Embarrassing Moment at The Stripper’s Guide.

See examples of Swinnerton’s Canyon Kiddies, Mr. Jack, Mount Ararat and Little Jimmy, as well as some of his landscape paintings, on Coconino Classics.

See examples of a variety of strips by Swinnerton at Ohio State University’s Newspaper Cartoon Artists online exhibit.

Click here to read about Jimmy Swinnerton at lambiek.net.

Click here to read more about Little Jimmy at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

Click here to read more about Jimmy Swinnerton at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

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Here’s another example I scanned of Mr. Jack from 1904 by Jimmy Swinnerton.

Click the image to view the full strip.

Click here to read more examples of Swinnerton’s Mr. Jack at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read examples of Little Jimmy at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read examples of Swinnerton’s Mr. Batch at Barnacle Press.

Click here to read more examples of Swinnerton’s Mr. Jack at The Stripper’s Guide

Read an article from 1906 about Jimmy Swinnerton at The Stripper’s Guide.

See an example of Swinnerton’s Mount Ararat (second series) at The Stripper’s Guide.

See examples of Swinnerton’s An Embarrassing Moment at The Stripper’s Guide.

See examples of Swinnerton’s Canyon Kiddies, Mr. Jack, Mount Ararat and Little Jimmy, as well as some of his landscape paintings, on Coconino Classics.

See examples of a variety of strips by Swinnerton at Ohio State University’s Newspaper Cartoon Artists online exhibit.

Click here to read about Jimmy Swinnerton at lambiek.net.

Click here to read more about Mr. Jack at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

Click here to read more about Jimmy Swinnerton at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.