HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : F.M. Howarth in Scribner’s at Unattended Baggage : January 16th, 2008

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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?

Crumbling Paper: The Love of Lulu and Leander (1905) by F.M. Howarth (strip #25)

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.

Crumbling Paper: The Love of Lulu and Leander (1904) by F.M. Howarth (strip #24)

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.