{"id":160,"date":"2007-04-18T18:11:24","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T02:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?p=160"},"modified":"2007-04-23T06:44:23","modified_gmt":"2007-04-23T14:44:23","slug":"crumbling-paper-the-love-of-lulu-and-leander-1903-by-fm-howarth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/18\/crumbling-paper-the-love-of-lulu-and-leander-1903-by-fm-howarth\/","title":{"rendered":"Crumbling Paper: The Love of Lulu and Leander (1903) by F.M. Howarth (strip #1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a fun example of F.M. Howarth&#8217;s strip <em>The Love of Lulu and Leander<\/em> by F.M. Howarth from 1903. Lulu and Leander is apparently one of the earliest domestic strips. The big-head artwork for this strip is pretty bizarre. Click the image to read the strip. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/images\/crumbling_paper\/crumblingpaper_luluandleander02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/images\/crumbling_paper\/thumb_crumblingpaper_luluandleander02.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnaclepress.com\/comics\/archives\/comedy\/lulu_and_leander\/index.html\">You can see more examples of this strip (and many other classic comics) at Barnacle Press.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toonopedia.com\/lululean.htm\">Here&#8217;s what Don Markstein&#8217;s Toonopedia has to say about Lulu and Leander.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scoop.diamondgalleries.com\/scoop_article.asp?ai=2454&#038;si=126\">Here&#8217;s an article on Howarth.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have scanned a LOT more examples of this strip coming soon to this blog. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a fun example of F.M. Howarth&#8217;s strip The Love of Lulu and Leander by F.M. Howarth from 1903. Lulu and Leander is apparently one of the earliest domestic strips. The big-head artwork for this strip is pretty bizarre. Click &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/18\/crumbling-paper-the-love-of-lulu-and-leander-1903-by-fm-howarth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,40,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crumbling-paper","category-fm-howarth","category-ye-olde-comics-and-stuffe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZfX-2A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}