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Lyonel: Cartoons and Fein Art  by Rick Marschall [1] “The White Man” Bad pun. This is a story about Lyonel Feininger, the German artist born (and died) in America. The son of a prominent musician, Lyonel was born in 1871 and initially studied music himself. In 1887 he moved to Germany, land of his parents’ birth, and only returned to America about 50 years later. He died in New

The Power of Cartoons  by Rick Marschall Short and sweet this week. I came across this drawing when I was a young kid. I was hooked on cartoons and comics from an early age… and I mean cartoons and comics from THEIR early ages too. I relished being able to meet, or correspond with, Rube Goldberg, Harry Hershfield, Rudolph Dirks, Jimmy Swinnerton, Russell Patterson, Otto Mesmer,

Terry and the Pirates =Star Weekly= April 30, 1955 =.=

Ketcham If You Can by Rick Marschall This week is the birthday of Hank Ketcham (March 14, 1920, in Seattle), and we will light a few candles here for the creator of Dennis the Menace. He was attracted to cartooning early, as goes the story of many greats. He was an animator, first for Walter Lantz, then on famous features with Walt Disney. In the Navy during World War II he

More About Google (Barney, That Is) by Rick Marschall We got good response from last week’s essay on Barney Google, from our Yesterday’s Papers Editor John Adcock who remembered his mother’s fondness for the eponymous song; from John Rose who directs the course of Snuffy Smith’s adventures today; and from… Google, or Facebook, or whichever member of the Big Brother League put a hold on

 JIMMY  Chicago Examiner August 5, 1917 &x!#$*

 PRINCE VALIANT  Star Weekly May 29, 1965 ♰

With the Goo-Goo-Googly Eyes (Barney and Snuffy; DeBeck and Lasswell)   Christmas Sketch - DeBeck Barney and Bunky, 1930s by Rick Marschall One of my collecting specialties is the Sketch. There is as much charm, and insouciant skill, in a lightning sketch as there is, or can be, in a finished work of art. As an artist I am often happier with my preliminary work than my finishes; I

↢   STRAIGHT ARROW   ↣ Boston Globe June 18, 1950 ↡ Fred Meagher (1912-1976) HERE ↡