Come To Things

Tuesday Things Day. 

Some years ago I collected a whole lot of Sunday strips from the Midland Reporter Telegram. The MRT was a NEA paper, which means that they had all of the lesser known and lesser distributed strips from that syndicate and the AP outfit, some of my favorites (and all very hard to find). Unfortunately the mico-fiche scans were very bad, ranging from way too dark to far too light. Cleaning out my files, I decided to share them anyway for the unseen gems that may be among them. 

Things To Come is one of my favorite Sunday features from this lot. Drawn by AP regular Hank Barrow (whoe othe AP work and political cartoons I have share many times). I actually have a few color samples I was able to seell. But most of what I have is not transformed to micro-fiche very well. It was a very colorful strip, with lots of red, which did not tranlaate very well. Still, the subject is great, the style funny. I'd love to get my ahnds on some realy appers that ran it (as half a tabloid page).

While Rolling Out the Barrow

Tuesday Caniff School Day. Over the last few days I have shown some of the political cartoons of Hank Barrow, both from his period at Associated Press as fom his later freelance work. After leaving the AP bullpen, he had his own newspaper Sunday feature for a short while, called Things To Come. It showed future inventions and is especially remarkable because it showcases Barrows unique Milt Canniff inspired funny/realistic style. I shared more samples earlier and will ad the link.

Roll Out the Barrow Even Further

Monday Caniff School Day. 

 While clearing out my computer, I came across a large stash of scans of one of my favorite oldtime political cartoonists. As you can see on the two previous posts Hank Barrow started out in the AP bullpen. In the late forties he took on a weekly newspaper page called Things To Come about new inventions that were being worked on. I showed a few of those earlier (including a few color examples) and will show some more later this week. After that Barrow became the resident political cartoonists at the Omaha Bee. I have been clipping online micro-fiche scans of those here and there. Here is a longer run from 1954.