cutepoints (1-10): 8
disposition: personable, generous
about: the pigment pups, pooka,
pingo and peppy (bottom to top)
are good puppies. they do not
bark loudly, bite, or make messes
on the floor. pooka can smell
color, and tell what palettes are
appetizing. pingo likes to give
interior design advice. peppy can
extract rainbows from potatos.
Here’s an example I scanned of the bottom half of a strip by Hy Gage. I don’t know the title of the strip, so we’ll call it Uncle Jasper after the name on the bag in the first panel for the time being. Can anyone illuminate us on the name of this comic strip?
Click the image to view the full strip.
Please be advised that like many of the comic strips of the era, it contains offensive racial depictions. If this sort of thing offends you, you may not want to view it.
I’ve been enjoying watching this cartoon recently with my daughter. It is a Van Beuren cartoon from 1935 called Picnic Panic directed by Burt Gillett and Tom Palmer. I particularly enjoy the teapot music at the beginning.
I was delighted last night to find a longer version of the beginning of the cartoon on YouTube before it had the beginning truncated by an unscrupulous cartoon bootlegger. See the wonderful original beginning below.
Pretty catchy tune, eh? Download the music as an mp3 here:
Picnic Panic – The Rhythm of the Rain
Read more about this cartoon on the Big Cartoon Database here.
UPDATE: Actually looking at the Big Cartoon Database still of the title card, it is different than either of the ones above. So the new footage appears to be a bootleg, and the first one a bootleg of a bootleg. Anyone have the original version online?
I found a new site full of old comics today. Those Fabuleous Fifties has a lot of nice stuff posted, including the full 1952 Pogo Sunday strip by the great Walt Kelly you see a panel from below. Click on it to go to the post on the Fabuleous Fifties site.
Here’s an example I scanned from November 15, 1931 of Blondie, along with the header strip The Family Foursome by Chic Young. The early Blondie strips that I have read from before it became a formulaic routine of sandwich and angry boss strips are quite fun and charming. The strip premiered in September 1930, so this is a little over a year into it.
Please be advised that like many of the comic strips of the era, it contains offensive racial depictions. If this sort of thing offends you, you may not want to view it.
Click the image to view the full strip.
See Blondie Gets Married from the Library of Congress.
See a round-up of articles on Blondie’s 75th anniversary at Barnacle Press.
Click here to read some examples of The Affairs of Jane by Chic Young at The Stripper’s Guide.
Click here to read about Chic Young at lambiek.net.
Click here to read more about Blondie at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.
There are a ton of fantastic comic links for you to check out today… more Wolverton! Jeff Smith! Bryan Lee O’Malley! Lots of great stuff. It was quite difficult to choose which one to feature. I chose an obscurity from The Stripper’s Guide, quaintly titled The Gay Boys. I couldn’t resist a strip that features the always hilarious situation of an old man hiring boys to go into his cellar and kill rats. Click on the image below to see two full episodes of this bizarre strip.
Once you are at the Stripper’s Guide you will want to stay and browse. Among many, many other wonders your host Allan Holtz has posted, every Saturday he posts “Herriman Saturday” which features pre-Krazy Kat political and other one-shot cartoons from my all-time favorite cartoonist George Herriman. Click here to see the latest installment of that.
Allan Holtz at the excellent old comics blog The Stripper’s Guide posted an example the other day of The Wish Twins and Aladdin’s Lamp by W.O. Wilson, which inspired me to get this posted. Here’s an example I scanned from August 5th, 1906 of The Wish Twins and Aladdin’s Lamp by W.O. Wilson, along with Little Sammy Sneeze by Winsor McCay, and Feminine Fancies by unknown. If anyone out there knows the cartoonist who did Feminine Fancies (which I believe is the same series as Fancies of the Fair), please let me know… their signature is in the middle panel.
Click the image to view the full strip.
Click here to read more examples of Little Sammy Sneeze at Barnacle Press.
Click here to read more examples of The Wish Twins and Aladdin’s Lamp at Barnacle Press.
Click here to read more examples of Fancies of the Fair at Barnacle Press.
Click here to read about Winsor McCay at lambiek.net.
Click here to read about W.O. Wilson at lambiek.net.
It appears someone recently published a small book collection of Madge the Magician’s Daughter.
There are too many McCay books for me to reference here… we live in wondrous times. Here is a link to the amazing McCay books from Sunday Press printed and restored at full size… big enough to be used as a blunt object. They recently did a Little Sammy Sneeze book that oh boy I gotta have someday, which also includes a lot of examples of two other marvelous strips that were printed on the backs of the Sammy Sneeze strips… The Upside-Downs by Gustave Verbeek and J.P. Benson’s Woozlebeasts.
