After reading a bit about the latest atrocity that Hollywood is perpetrating on the legacy of the great Dr. Seuss, I thought I would point you to one of the times they got it dead right… here’s Horton Hatches an Egg directed by Bob Clampett.
Read more about this cartoon here on the Big Cartoon Database.
Here’s a great, revealing Seuss anecdote from the biography of him, Dr. Seuss and Mr. Geisel
Reader Steve Walker sent me the below images and asked me if I could identify the artist… I can’t, can you? Also, these need a punchline, if you’ve got one of those. I’ll update this post with information and punchlines from the comments.
STWALLSKULL’s attempt (and probable failure) to make the cartoon funny:
“Well, um, ah, maybe I killed her just a little bit.”
Here’s a close up of the signature.
Here’s an example I scanned of Uncle Mun from May 1, 1910 by Fred Nankivell.
Update: I earlier attributed this strip to Frank Nankivell. In the comments here, according to this Frank Nankivell’s granddaughter, Jody Nankivell Herriott, he had nothing to do with this strip, and the person that did do this strip was named Fred, not Frank.
Click the image to view the full strip.
Click here to read another Uncle Mun example at The Stripper’s Guide.
Here’s a second set of miscellaneous one panel gags by unknown artists that appeared here (as before) above an Uncle Pike strip (this one is lost)… this is probably from 1903. Glad Rags, the Corpulent Tramp is in the final panel, so that one is presumably by William F. Marriner. If you can identify any of the other artists, please let me know in the comments and I’ll note it here. See the first set I scanned of one panel gags here. I’m still hoping for identification of those artists as well.
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Missed this yesterday…