Some time ago I clipped a whole lot of Gus Mager's early Monk strips, a funny animal series that predated his more famous Sherlock Holmes spoof Hawkshaw the Detective. One of Mager;s gags in this irregular daily strip was the way he started naming his monkeys, as you can see here: first as Mufti the Monk, later Rhymo, Braggo and even Sherlocko. Famously, this way of naming was taken up by the Marx Brother, who based their own names on the same principal.
Showing posts with label Hawkshaw the Detective. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hawkshaw the Detective. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
No Mager Feat
Tuesday Comi Strip day.
Some time ago I clipped a whole lot of Gus Mager's early Monk strips, a funny animal series that predated his more famous Sherlock Holmes spoof Hawkshaw the Detective. One of Mager;s gags in this irregular daily strip was the way he started naming his monkeys, as you can see here: first as Mufti the Monk, later Rhymo, Braggo and even Sherlocko. Famously, this way of naming was taken up by the Marx Brother, who based their own names on the same principal.
Some time ago I clipped a whole lot of Gus Mager's early Monk strips, a funny animal series that predated his more famous Sherlock Holmes spoof Hawkshaw the Detective. One of Mager;s gags in this irregular daily strip was the way he started naming his monkeys, as you can see here: first as Mufti the Monk, later Rhymo, Braggo and even Sherlocko. Famously, this way of naming was taken up by the Marx Brother, who based their own names on the same principal.
Tuesday, April 07, 2015
Elementro, Dear Watso
Tuesday Comic Strip Day.
Gus Mager's most famous creation, Sherlocko the Monk was a satirical animal strip, with monkey playing the parts of humans. It started in 1904 and was a huge success. In the early teens, he humanized his characters and changed the name of the strip to Hawkshaw the Detective. I did not know that this humanized form had existed so early. Mager went on to become the assistant to Rudoolph Dirks' Captain and the Kids. In the thirsties Hawkshaw resufaced as a topper to The Kids and it is in that form I know him. This large topper )often two whole tiers, almost half a page) was sometimes even used seperately from the mother page, especially in the forties, when whole pages were less in vogue. I will be showing some of these later strips soon, but here is what I had in my own collection from the early years.
Gus Mager's most famous creation, Sherlocko the Monk was a satirical animal strip, with monkey playing the parts of humans. It started in 1904 and was a huge success. In the early teens, he humanized his characters and changed the name of the strip to Hawkshaw the Detective. I did not know that this humanized form had existed so early. Mager went on to become the assistant to Rudoolph Dirks' Captain and the Kids. In the thirsties Hawkshaw resufaced as a topper to The Kids and it is in that form I know him. This large topper )often two whole tiers, almost half a page) was sometimes even used seperately from the mother page, especially in the forties, when whole pages were less in vogue. I will be showing some of these later strips soon, but here is what I had in my own collection from the early years.
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Monko
Tuesday Comic Strip Day.
Last Saturday I showed a large run of Gus Magers Hawkshaw the Detetive from the forties. Today I have a couple of selfscanned sampled of the earlier version from 1913. I have added the one I showed Saturday (seeing how much work they are to put together). More to come, after all the stiching is done.
Last Saturday I showed a large run of Gus Magers Hawkshaw the Detetive from the forties. Today I have a couple of selfscanned sampled of the earlier version from 1913. I have added the one I showed Saturday (seeing how much work they are to put together). More to come, after all the stiching is done.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
New From Bloggo
Tuesday Comic Strip Day.
Today, I am sharing an early Sunday comic strip from 1920, which I find interesting not only for historians. Hawkshaw the Detective started his life as Sherlocko, an obvious parody of Sherlock Holmes. I guess this is the strip that influenced the Marx Brothers to take ficticious names ending in -o, like Groucho, Harpo, Chico and such. I have awhoe bunch of Sunday pages with this strip waiting to be scanned in, but when I came across this clear run of almost black and white pages, I just couldn't resist. Unfortunately, I have taken these scans from two different papers and it is only after putting them up here, I have found out that they don't always match. it seems bot papers didn't always publish the right Sunday on the right date (althoug sometimes they did), so there is at least one double and therefor one missing...
Tuesday Comic Strip Day.
Today, I am sharing an early Sunday comic strip from 1920, which I find interesting not only for historians. Hawkshaw the Detective started his life as Sherlocko, an obvious parody of Sherlock Holmes. I guess this is the strip that influenced the Marx Brothers to take ficticious names ending in -o, like Groucho, Harpo, Chico and such. I have awhoe bunch of Sunday pages with this strip waiting to be scanned in, but when I came across this clear run of almost black and white pages, I just couldn't resist. Unfortunately, I have taken these scans from two different papers and it is only after putting them up here, I have found out that they don't always match. it seems bot papers didn't always publish the right Sunday on the right date (althoug sometimes they did), so there is at least one double and therefor one missing...
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