{"id":723,"date":"2008-05-30T07:38:07","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T15:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?p=723"},"modified":"2008-05-30T07:38:07","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T15:38:07","slug":"crumbling-paper-the-thrilling-rescue-of-little-tommys-best-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/30\/crumbling-paper-the-thrilling-rescue-of-little-tommys-best-hat\/","title":{"rendered":"Crumbling Paper: The Thrilling Rescue of Little Tommy&#8217;s Best Hat"},"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 an example I scanned of a one-shot strip called <em>The Thrilling Rescue of Little Tommy&#8217;s Best Hat<\/em> from June 15, 1902 by Walter McDougall. McDougall was the first syndicated newspaper artist. He drew what has been noted as the first color comic strip in an American newspaper (<em>&#8220;The Unfortunate Fate of a Well-Intended Dog&#8221;<\/em>). In 1898 he drew what was likely to be the largest single panel comic drawn for a newspaper, which was spread over two pages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stwallskull.com\/blog\/images\/crumbling_paper\/crumblingpaper_littletommy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stwallskull.com\/blog\/images\/crumbling_paper\/thumb_crumblingpaper_littletommy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click the image to view the full strip.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cartoons.osu.edu\/newspaper_artists\/mcdougall\/mcdougall.html\">Don&#8217;t miss these fantastic examples of Walt McDougall&#8217;s comics on Ohio State University&#8217;s <em>Newspaper Cartoon Artists, 1898-1909<\/em> online exhibit<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnaclepress.com\/list.php?directory=WaltMcDougall\">See some various works by Walt McDougall at Barnacle Press.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnaclepress.com\/?p=593\">Read The Outlet by Walt McDougall at Barnacle Press.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lambiek.net\/artists\/m\/mcdougall_walt.htm\">Read more about Walt McDougall at Lambiek.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an example I scanned of a one-shot strip called The Thrilling Rescue of Little Tommy&#8217;s Best Hat from June 15, 1902 by Walter McDougall. McDougall was the first syndicated newspaper artist. He drew what has been noted as the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/30\/crumbling-paper-the-thrilling-rescue-of-little-tommys-best-hat\/\">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":[28,142,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crumbling-paper","category-walter-mcdougall","category-ye-olde-comics-and-stuffe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZfX-bF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","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=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}