Crumbling Paper: Tailspin Tommy

Posted on May 23, 2012 by STWALLSKULL

Here’s an example I scanned of Tailspin Tommy by Hal Forrest and Glenn Chaffin.

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Crumbling Paper: Tillie the Toiler (strip #3)

Posted on May 23, 2012 by STWALLSKULL

Here’s an example I scanned of Tillie the Toiler from 1941 by Russ Westover (with a comic strip ad for “Junket” Rennet Powder at the footer).

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Crumbling Paper: Tillie the Toiler (strip #2)

Posted on May 23, 2012 by STWALLSKULL

Here’s an example I scanned of Tillie the Toiler with a Van Swaggers header from March 15, 1936 by Russ Westover.

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Crumbling Paper: Tillie the Toiler (strip #1)

Posted on May 23, 2012 by STWALLSKULL

Here’s an example I scanned of Tillie the Toiler with a Van Zippers header from May 23, 1926 by Russ Westover.

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Crumbling Paper: Tim Tyler’s Luck

Posted on May 23, 2012 by STWALLSKULL

Here’s an example I scanned of Tim Tyler’s Luck from March 16, 1941 by Lyman Young, along with an example of Modern Models, a papercraft feature by Rigby.

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Crumbling Paper: Wonderland Folks

Posted on May 23, 2012 by STWALLSKULL

Here’s an example I scanned of the papercraft strip Wonderland Folks by M.A. Glen.

Click here to see the children’s book The Twelve Magic Changelings by M.A. Glen.

Crumbling Paper: Dolly Dimples and Gasoline Gus

Posted on May 23, 2012 by STWALLSKULL

Here’s an example I scanned of Dolly Dimples with Gasoline Gus on the same page from March 2, 1913. The Dolly Dimples feature is credited to Grace G. Drayton on the Ohio State University reference site here, but it looks like this was signed by someone named Van Beekman or Von Beekman. Gasoline Gus was by O. P. Williams.

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Crumbling Paper: The Stranded Dime Museum Freaks Didn’t Want to Frighten the Farmers, but They Simply Had to Have a Drink

Posted on May 23, 2012 by STWALLSKULL

Here’s an example I scanned of a very fun one-shot strip titled The Stranded Dime Museum Freaks Didn’t Want to Frighten the Farmers, but They Simply Had to Have a Drink from March 30, 1902. I can’t make out the name of the cartoonist from the signature… anyone out there know who it is? If so, if you want to let me know in the comments, that would be swell. I used this as a back cover image on an anthology I self-published a while ago called Weird Illustrated.

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CRUMBLING PAPER: Pussy Pumpkin and That Family Next Door

Posted on January 25, 2010 by STWALLSKULL

There are a number of old comic strips that I have scanned and cleaned up a bit that have not yet appeared on this site. I recently shared them with my friend Allan Holtz at his wonderful blog The Stripper’s Guide, and offered to let him post any of them he was interested in writing about. I’m much more interested in hearing what he has to say about them than what I would cobble together. Allan has a vast knowledge of comic strip history, and is currently working on an enormous encyclopedia indexing every American comic strip he has been able to see examples of in his many years of research.

So far he has posted two of the strips I scanned.

First of all, he posted an example of The Strange Adventures of Pussy Pumpkin and her Chum Toodles by Grace Drayton (creator of the Campbell’s Kids), which you can read about here.

I previously posted about Pussy Pumpkin here and here (the strip at the first link did not appear on the Stripper’s Guide).

Next he posted the example of That Family Next Door by Jean Knott which I posted previously here.

Here is what Allan said about that strip, and here is a follow-up post with more examples.