{"id":606,"date":"2008-02-05T00:48:46","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T08:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?p=606"},"modified":"2008-02-06T11:22:35","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T19:22:35","slug":"crumbling-paper-hawkshaw-the-detective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/05\/crumbling-paper-hawkshaw-the-detective\/","title":{"rendered":"Crumbling Paper: Hawkshaw the Detective"},"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>Here&#8217;s a wonderfully animated example I scanned of Gus Mager&#8217;s <em>Hawkshaw the Detective<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?cat=43\">See previous entries I&#8217;ve made about Mager here.<\/a> Notice how much the art looks like a Rudolph Dirks&#8217; <em>Katzenjammer Kids<\/em> strip? That&#8217;s because Mager was Dirks&#8217; assistant. <\/p>\n<p>Can anyone out there name all the characters in the footer bar?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note that this strip contains offensive racial depictions, as was typical of the comic strips of the era&#8230; if you are deeply offended by that sort of thing, you may not want to view it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stwallskull.com\/blog\/images\/crumbling_paper\/crumblingpaper_hawkshaw.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stwallskull.com\/blog\/images\/crumbling_paper\/thumb_crumblingpaper_hawkshaw.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click the image to view the full strip.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnaclepress.com\/list.php?directory=HawkshawTheDetective\">See examples of Mager&#8217;s <em>Hawkshaw the Detective<\/em> on Barnacle Press here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnaclepress.com\/list.php?directory=Monks\">See examples of <em>Mager&#8217;s Monks<\/em> on Barnacle Press here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toonopedia.com\/hawkshaw.htm\">Read more about <em>Hawkshaw the Detective<\/em> on Don Markstein&#8217;s Toonopedia here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lambiek.net\/artists\/m\/mager_g.htm\">Read more about Gus Mager on Lambiek.net here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a wonderfully animated example I scanned of Gus Mager&#8217;s Hawkshaw the Detective. See previous entries I&#8217;ve made about Mager here. Notice how much the art looks like a Rudolph Dirks&#8217; Katzenjammer Kids strip? That&#8217;s because Mager was Dirks&#8217; assistant. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/05\/crumbling-paper-hawkshaw-the-detective\/\">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":[17,28,43,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-crumbling-paper","category-gus-mager","category-ye-olde-comics-and-stuffe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZfX-9M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","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=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}