It's Christmas Day and I realize I can't count. This should be my One Day Before Christmas Post, but here we are. Luckily, I prepared two lots, one for today and one for tomorrow. Christmas gags aren't as common as one would think, but I did manage to find a couple of favorites. The Walt Kelly cartoon is on eof the better prints I got from his short run on the New Yor Star as political cartoonist (which is where he did his first newspaper version of Pogo as well).
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Showing posts with label Winnie Winkle. Show all posts
Sunday, December 24, 2017
One Day It's Christmas
Monday Christmas Day.
It's Christmas Day and I realize I can't count. This should be my One Day Before Christmas Post, but here we are. Luckily, I prepared two lots, one for today and one for tomorrow. Christmas gags aren't as common as one would think, but I did manage to find a couple of favorites. The Walt Kelly cartoon is on eof the better prints I got from his short run on the New Yor Star as political cartoonist (which is where he did his first newspaper version of Pogo as well).
It's Christmas Day and I realize I can't count. This should be my One Day Before Christmas Post, but here we are. Luckily, I prepared two lots, one for today and one for tomorrow. Christmas gags aren't as common as one would think, but I did manage to find a couple of favorites. The Walt Kelly cartoon is on eof the better prints I got from his short run on the New Yor Star as political cartoonist (which is where he did his first newspaper version of Pogo as well).
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
The Original Pinhead
Tuesday Comic Strip Day.
Winnie Winkle the Breadwinner was a long runing strip about a young female professional. It started in 1920. At least from somewhere in the twenties onwars, the Sundays were dominated by Winnie's brother Perry (Perry Winkle, get it?) and his gang of friends. Just like the Just So Kids, but less so. These Sundays are of particular interest to Dutch comic strip lovers, because they were reprinted and redrawn and finally continued seperately as the adventures of Sjors (and his gang of rebels). Sjors got his own magazine, which lived on until 1975, during which time Sjors himself was given longer adventurs and a African-Dutch friend called Sjimmie. In the seventies the strip was revamped as a straight adventure strip and in 1975 Sjors and Sjimmie were added to the line-up of a new magazine called Eppo, revamped again as the heroes of a one page gag strip. That evolved into a four page gag strip and finally they were even allowed to give their name to the magazine, which was called SjoSji. Aaaaaanyway. After the war Perry Winkle got a new friend called Denny, who was a bit lazy, not very bright... and a pinhead. This new guy, Denny, effectively took over the Sundays until 1953, during which time we were introduced to his pinhead father as well. According to Alan Holtz Branner was still at the wheel at this time. The art certainly is in his style. And although his successor, Max van Bibber officially didn't start ghosting the art until 1962 and Alberto Becattini says Jack Berrill ghosted from 1940 to 1958, I don't see Berril until 1954/55. So who drew or wrote 'the original Pinhead' remains a mystery.
Winnie Winkle the Breadwinner was a long runing strip about a young female professional. It started in 1920. At least from somewhere in the twenties onwars, the Sundays were dominated by Winnie's brother Perry (Perry Winkle, get it?) and his gang of friends. Just like the Just So Kids, but less so. These Sundays are of particular interest to Dutch comic strip lovers, because they were reprinted and redrawn and finally continued seperately as the adventures of Sjors (and his gang of rebels). Sjors got his own magazine, which lived on until 1975, during which time Sjors himself was given longer adventurs and a African-Dutch friend called Sjimmie. In the seventies the strip was revamped as a straight adventure strip and in 1975 Sjors and Sjimmie were added to the line-up of a new magazine called Eppo, revamped again as the heroes of a one page gag strip. That evolved into a four page gag strip and finally they were even allowed to give their name to the magazine, which was called SjoSji. Aaaaaanyway. After the war Perry Winkle got a new friend called Denny, who was a bit lazy, not very bright... and a pinhead. This new guy, Denny, effectively took over the Sundays until 1953, during which time we were introduced to his pinhead father as well. According to Alan Holtz Branner was still at the wheel at this time. The art certainly is in his style. And although his successor, Max van Bibber officially didn't start ghosting the art until 1962 and Alberto Becattini says Jack Berrill ghosted from 1940 to 1958, I don't see Berril until 1954/55. So who drew or wrote 'the original Pinhead' remains a mystery.
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