{"id":226,"date":"2007-05-31T05:01:04","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T13:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?p=226"},"modified":"2008-02-06T07:49:58","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T15:49:58","slug":"crumbling-paper-our-antediluvian-ancestors-1903-by-frederick-opper-strip-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/31\/crumbling-paper-our-antediluvian-ancestors-1903-by-frederick-opper-strip-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Crumbling Paper: Our Antediluvian Ancestors (1903) by Frederick Opper (strip #1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although he is best known today for Happy Hooligan (which we&#8217;ve been reprinting examples of recently) Frederick Opper was responsible for a number of popular strips in the early 20th century. Here&#8217;s an example of Frederick Opper&#8217;s strip <em>Our Antediluvian Ancestors<\/em> from December 27, 1903. Unfortunately, I only have the top half of the page for this one, so you&#8217;ll have to imagine what happens after the first three panels. Dig that 1903 Flintstones car! Click the image to read the strip.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stwallskull.com\/blog\/images\/crumbling_paper\/crumblingpaper_antediluvian.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stwallskull.com\/blog\/images\/crumbling_paper\/thumb_crumblingpaper_antediluvian.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coconino-world.com\/sites_auteurs\/opper\/index.html\">Here are some other Opper strips from Coconino Classics, including more examples of Our Antediluvian Ancestors.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnaclepress.com\/comics\/archives\/various_artists\/f_opper\/index.html\">Here are some other Opper strips at Barnacle Press.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although he is best known today for Happy Hooligan (which we&#8217;ve been reprinting examples of recently) Frederick Opper was responsible for a number of popular strips in the early 20th century. Here&#8217;s an example of Frederick Opper&#8217;s strip Our Antediluvian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/31\/crumbling-paper-our-antediluvian-ancestors-1903-by-frederick-opper-strip-1\/\">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":[28,39,99,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crumbling-paper","category-frederick-opper","category-our-antediluvian-ancestors","category-ye-olde-comics-and-stuffe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZfX-3E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","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=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}