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–Captain Easy by Roy Crane– Roy Crane, Father of the Adventure Strip by Rick Marschall When I was growing up – yes, I have grown up; grown older, anyway – my father nurtured my interest in comics, a vicarious interest, I eventually realized. He indulged and encouraged my drawing, collecting, and… reaching out to living, breathing cartoonists. When I was young, some of the ink-stained

Harold Gray Star Weekly May 25, 1963 💙❤️💙

The Katzenjammer Kids Rudy Dirks Chicago Examiner Nov 29, 1908 &!*%#

Batmania by Rick Marschall International Batman Day was observed recently. Holy contrivance! (There. I have gotten that cliché or meme out of the way.) My “mind” swung back to some Gotham memories. I met Bob Kane in the late 1960s or early 1970s. As young as I was, I was known a little bit as a collector of comics and original art in the New York City area, at Phil Seuling

Harold Gray Chicago Tribune August 2, 1942 HG

 – June 15, 1910 –  ANOTHER California sporting cartoonist destined for fame was LEROY ROBERT RIPLEY who was born in Santa Rosa, California, on Dec 25, 1890, although he would claim the year of his birth as 1893. He would say he sold his first cartoon to the old Life while just four years of age. In 1909, Ripley moved to San Francisco to become a sports cartoonist at the Bulletin for $8 a

His Monument Will B. Johnstone New York World May 25, 1929 ★★★

George Herriman  Krazy Kat, Chicago Examiner, Feb 24,1918 ★★★

–Rudolph Dirks panel 1917– The Other Katzenjammer Kids by Rick Marschall In these installments of memoirs I will return more than once to Rudolph Dirks, the father of the comic strip. He was the primal source of sequential panels, a cast of characters, and the signs and symbols of cartoonists – motion lines, stars of pain, dotted vision lines, etc. – originating, or at least codifying

IN THE LAND OF WONDERFUL DREAMS Winsor McCay September 8, 1912 ★ ★★

– Self-caricature with Ghosts – Harry Hershfield, the Mensch by Rick Marschall Harry Hershfield was a blessing to know. Part of this crazy Forrest-Gump like existence, where a guy writing to you in 2018 (me), actually knew or met, corresponded with or visited, pioneers like Rube Goldberg and Harry Hershfield and Rudy Dirks and Jimmy Swinnerton. Pioneers, yes, but relics, really, in

Compiled by JOHN ADCOCK INTRODUCTION. Over its 32-issue run (1983-1992) the original NEMO: The Classic Comics Library, “an education in the history and aesthetics of cartooning in the 20th century,” was published at a point in time when the student of the comic strip had very few published examples of historical source material to examine. The complete contents of NEMO were a major

Sidney Smith,  Chicago Tribune, July 19, 1908 ★

Smitty by Walter Berndt,  Chicago Tribune, Feb 28, 1932 ★