{"id":534,"date":"2007-11-28T10:40:32","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T18:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?p=534"},"modified":"2008-01-24T23:10:58","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T07:10:58","slug":"crumbling-paper-johnny-gruelles-mr-twee-deedle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/28\/crumbling-paper-johnny-gruelles-mr-twee-deedle\/","title":{"rendered":"Crumbling Paper: Johnny Gruelle&#8217;s Mr. Twee Deedle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?page_id=630\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stwallskull.com\/blog\/images\/crumblingpaperlogo.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wish someone would collect some or all of Johnny Gruelle&#8217;s neglected comic strip <em>Mr. Twee Deedle<\/em> into a book. Gruelle is better known as the creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy, so I suspect there would be a big market for his work. The obscurity of this strip puzzles me somewhat considering the high quality of the work and the potentially large market for the material&#8230; I have probably seen less than ten examples of it. What little I&#8217;ve seen of the strip is a lot of weird and surreal fun. Here&#8217;s an example I scanned (not in color, unfortunately&#8230; the color ones I&#8217;ve seen have been spectacular). Click the image to see the full strip.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stwallskull.com\/blog\/images\/crumbling_paper\/crumblingpaper_mrtweedeedle.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stwallskull.com\/blog\/images\/crumbling_paper\/thumb_crumblingpaper_mrtweedeedle.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toonopedia.com\/deedle.htm\"><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s what Don Markstein&#8217;s Toonopedia says about Mr. Twee Deedle.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lambiek.net\/artists\/g\/gruelle_j.htm\">Here&#8217;s the Lambiek page on Johnny Gruelle.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish someone would collect some or all of Johnny Gruelle&#8217;s neglected comic strip Mr. Twee Deedle into a book. Gruelle is better known as the creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy, so I suspect there would be a big &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/28\/crumbling-paper-johnny-gruelles-mr-twee-deedle\/\">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":[28,66,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crumbling-paper","category-johnny-gruelle","category-ye-olde-comics-and-stuffe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZfX-8C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","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=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2644,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/2644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}