Although he is best known today for Happy Hooligan (which we’ve been reprinting examples of recently) Frederick Opper was responsible for a number of popular strips in the early 20th century. Here’s an example of Frederick Opper’s strip Our Antediluvian Ancestors. Click the image to read the strip.
Dori Seda told a lot of wild autobiographical stories & is among the most fun autobiographical cartoonists I’ve read. Wish she had lived longer! You can get her complete works in one unfortunately slim book, pictured above.
Go here to see the Dori Seda website.
Click here to read the lambiek.net entry on Dori Seda.
Click the above image to see the full-size version on the site I found it on.
I noticed some additional cartoonist drawing projects linked to from Ape Lad‘s blog…
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.
Although he is best known today for Happy Hooligan (which we’ve been reprinting examples of recently) Frederick Opper was responsible for a number of popular strips in the early 20th century. Here’s an example of Frederick Opper’s strip Our Antediluvian Ancestors from 1904. This one is pretty sorely wounded, but it’s a particularly funny one. Click the image to read the strip.
His fold-ins are certainly cool, but no one draws dog shit as well as Al Jaffee… in spite of the fact that dog shit doesn’t usually look like soft serve ice cream. Go figure.
Click the above image to see the full-size version on the site I found it on.
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.
Click the above image to see the full-size version on the site I found it on.
Click here to visit Anders Nilsen’s website.
