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        SWINNERTON & OPPER           March 28, 1919  000

The Origin of the Collecting Bug Cartoon by Orlando Busino about the Marschall Move from Connecticut. by Rick Marschall … or at least my variation of the bacilli. This is not ancient history, but for the fact that I am ancient. The “origin tale” of how I fast-forwarded to a collection of comics, art, magazines, newspapers, and comics ephemera that fills a house, eight storage

The Other Crime-Strip Cartoonist Gould   ( Red Barry’s Creator ) IDW Publishing, 2016 by Rick Marschall I have elsewhere told the story of Will Gould and Red Barry. In the first incarnation of Nemo magazine I ran a full daily episode of the hard-boiled detective strip. For Fantagraphics Books in 1989 I expanded the look back in a paperback compilation of four Sunday stories.

★Can You Beat It?, Jack Monk, Mar 20, 1937★ The DAILY MIRROR comic strip series index has now been updated until January 26, 2019 (previous version was done a year ago, on February 3, 2018) and there were some changes in the Daily Mirror’s comic strips line-up during 2018 after the previous update, so now the newspaper has even less strips... Also new is the addition of the two old

The Cat Who Walked ( Otto Messmer ) A sketch that Otto drew for me. So many coincidences in my Crowded Life in Cartooning – I later visited Joe Oriolo, who managed Felix after Otto’s retirement. A high-school crush of mine, Janet Ralston, later a TV news anchor, had dated Joe’s son. IT WAS SERENDIPITY, for a young fan of comics and cartoons, to grow up in the New York City area, as I

 PRINCE VALIANT  Vancouver Sunday Sun April 24, 1954 ♰

.THE DOO DADS. August 29, 1925 &x!#$*

by EDWARD ELLIS ❦ The first 8-page installment of Ruth the Betrayer; or, the Female Spy appeared on London newsstands on February 8, 1862, price one penny. The entire text, along with the complete wood-engraved parts illustrations by W.H. Thwaites, have been carefully edited by Dagni A. Bredeson, a professor of English at Eastern Illinois University and brought back to life by