Early comic strips

[LocktownDog]

Came across a resource for early comics. Katzenjammer Kids, Barney Google, Hawkshaw, etc. All scanned and ready for reading. :eusa_clap

http://www.barnaclepress.com/

Some are just plain funny, while others are a bit strange. I'm assuming some, like this Modish Mitzi from 1922, are for adults more than kids.

Richard

 

[Warbaby]

Alas, they're missing my all-time favorite, Smokey Stover. Dang.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Oh gee -- "Them Days Is Gone Forever!" I've been using that phrase for many a year, with some subconscious memory of having picked it up from a comic strip or something, and bingo, there it is!

Great stuff -- the comic strips of the twenties and thirties really ought to be better known and more widely available than they are.

 

[Sefton]

That's a great link. Not really as obscure as some of those,but the original Dick Tracy strips from the 1930s are great. Fast paced and violent fun for all ages.

 

[Lulu-in-Ny]

Very cool- I just wish that they had Dixie Dugan. Her original look was inspired by Louise Brooks, and I've never found it anywhere.
It's funny; I remember running for the paper every Sunday morning to get the comics. My son, I'm pretty sure, doesn't even know that they exist. Kinda sad, actually...

 

[BeBopBaby]

No Little Nemo in Slumberland?

 

[Twitch]

Can't be worse than the crapola we have in our paper where each one attempts to be ironic, bizarre, tongue-in-cheek and esoterically humorous....all at the same time usually.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Meet the greatest comic strip character of all time.

The Outbursts of Everett True

 

[Fletch]

YOU SAID IT!!!
He's like an Edwardian Reid Fleming.
I picture him played by the exhilaratingly creepy Daniel Benzali.

 

[Lulu-in-Ny]

Meet the greatest comic strip character of all time.

The Outbursts of Everett True

That is awesome. I think he may be the greatest character of all time, period.lol
Thanks for pointing him out!

 

[Doh!]

A couple of years ago, I was fortunate enough to catch a traveling show of original comic art. The Litte Nemo art was truly beautiful, and the size of the originals was huge. It's amazing the McCay was able to crank something out every week!

 

[BeBopBaby]

A couple of years ago, I was fortunate enough to catch a traveling show of original comic art. The Litte Nemo art was truly beautiful, and the size of the originals was huge. It's amazing the McCay was able to crank something out every week!

The details and imagination of Little Nemo never fail to amaze me. The colors and draftsmanship are stunning. I'm with you, I don't know how McCay did it every week. The only other comic that I think comes close to McCay's work is Tony Millionaire's Sock Monkey, but Sock Monkey doesn't come out on a weekly basis.

 

[Flivver]

Ella Cinders was always one of my favorite cartoons. This one really evokes the 1920s for me with Ella's twenties slang and flapper fashions.

I didn't realize until reading the website referenced above that the cartoon inspired the 1926 movie "Ella Cinders" starring Colleen Moore...not the other way around. I'm fortunate enough to have a VHS copy of that movie...it, too, is one of my favorites.

Come to think of it, *any* movie starring Colleen Moore is one of my favorites! She was the perfect flapper, in my opinion.

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

Actually, I can think of a better person to play Everett True. Me! lol