I usually do not collect older newspaper strips. There are plenty of other folk who do that. But when I come across some, I am not above scanning them. Here are two pages of Rube Goldberg's Boob McNutt and one Bringing Up Father, all from the early twenties.
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Showing posts with label Boob McNutt. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Boobs Of Different Fathers
Tuesday Comic Strip Day.
I usually do not collect older newspaper strips. There are plenty of other folk who do that. But when I come across some, I am not above scanning them. Here are two pages of Rube Goldberg's Boob McNutt and one Bringing Up Father, all from the early twenties.
I usually do not collect older newspaper strips. There are plenty of other folk who do that. But when I come across some, I am not above scanning them. Here are two pages of Rube Goldberg's Boob McNutt and one Bringing Up Father, all from the early twenties.
Friday, December 11, 2015
A Bit Of Boob
Tuesday Story Strip Day.
This week I decided to get rid of about twenty newspaper books I bought about fifteen years ago when I first started buying stuff n Ebay. Back then there were more postage options, including a mailbag that would everything it could hold for $45. Very cheap, even though it took three months to get here. I got all sorts of these books from may different papers and year, ranging from the early nineteen tens to the fifties. I have been wanting to sell them for a couple of years, because they take up a lot of space, but the rise in postage costs means that they are impossible to sell back to America. The sale price ($40 t0 $80, I guess) could possibly be lower than the postage. So after a lot of deliberation I am going to cut them up and sell different pages separately and (sadly) throw away the rest. Anyway, that led to a discussion with my wife (a librarian) about the historical mistake of American libraries in the seventies to start throwing away these books and putting them on microfiche. It now turns out those books have kept better than the microfiche copies, some of which are fading or scratched because of frequent use.
Still, there is an upside to it. Many of these microfiche photo's are now being scanned and added to various online collections. I have used several of these over the years for this blog. Today's post is mostly filled with scanned microfiche material as well, a large run of Rube Goldberg's Boob McNutt from two time periods - 191 and 1930. In between them I have a couple of self scanned color Sundays from 1924. Actually, I have many more from that period waiting to be scanned, but at least this is a start. Before those, I have a very interesting series of Sunday gags by an artist called Farr about famous figures from history coming back. I labelled those Boob McNutt as well and I can only imagine that they were from the same paper before Boob McNutt began - which would mean the June 9 Sunday I have here is actually the first one.
This week I decided to get rid of about twenty newspaper books I bought about fifteen years ago when I first started buying stuff n Ebay. Back then there were more postage options, including a mailbag that would everything it could hold for $45. Very cheap, even though it took three months to get here. I got all sorts of these books from may different papers and year, ranging from the early nineteen tens to the fifties. I have been wanting to sell them for a couple of years, because they take up a lot of space, but the rise in postage costs means that they are impossible to sell back to America. The sale price ($40 t0 $80, I guess) could possibly be lower than the postage. So after a lot of deliberation I am going to cut them up and sell different pages separately and (sadly) throw away the rest. Anyway, that led to a discussion with my wife (a librarian) about the historical mistake of American libraries in the seventies to start throwing away these books and putting them on microfiche. It now turns out those books have kept better than the microfiche copies, some of which are fading or scratched because of frequent use.
Still, there is an upside to it. Many of these microfiche photo's are now being scanned and added to various online collections. I have used several of these over the years for this blog. Today's post is mostly filled with scanned microfiche material as well, a large run of Rube Goldberg's Boob McNutt from two time periods - 191 and 1930. In between them I have a couple of self scanned color Sundays from 1924. Actually, I have many more from that period waiting to be scanned, but at least this is a start. Before those, I have a very interesting series of Sunday gags by an artist called Farr about famous figures from history coming back. I labelled those Boob McNutt as well and I can only imagine that they were from the same paper before Boob McNutt began - which would mean the June 9 Sunday I have here is actually the first one.
Tuesday, September 08, 2015
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Sea Walker
Tuesday Comic Strip Day.
I admit to being fond of everything Mort Walker has done. To me he is the consumate funny cartoonist. I like his gags, I like his book and I like all of his trips, even the lesser efforts (although his lonely orphan strip Patches takes some getting used to). The years have not been kind to Boner's Ark. It has been called bland and just a collection of silly gags. But I liked it at the time, especially the Sunday pages. I guess what I liked was the fact that if challange Mort Walker artisticly and freed him up to try new stuff. Althoug I have a book of the later version of this strip, when it was drawn and taken over by Frank Johnson and I like that just as much. I have a stack of Sundays somewhere which I will scan some day. but for now here is a whole load of strips from the ealry period.
Mort Walker wasn't the only one of the first to use the Noah's Ark concept. How about this menagery of silly anuimals from Rube Goldberg's Boob mcNutt in 1933?
Tuesday Comic Strip Day.
I admit to being fond of everything Mort Walker has done. To me he is the consumate funny cartoonist. I like his gags, I like his book and I like all of his trips, even the lesser efforts (although his lonely orphan strip Patches takes some getting used to). The years have not been kind to Boner's Ark. It has been called bland and just a collection of silly gags. But I liked it at the time, especially the Sunday pages. I guess what I liked was the fact that if challange Mort Walker artisticly and freed him up to try new stuff. Althoug I have a book of the later version of this strip, when it was drawn and taken over by Frank Johnson and I like that just as much. I have a stack of Sundays somewhere which I will scan some day. but for now here is a whole load of strips from the ealry period.
Mort Walker wasn't the only one of the first to use the Noah's Ark concept. How about this menagery of silly anuimals from Rube Goldberg's Boob mcNutt in 1933?
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