(Banner by Johnny Walbridge, who, as noted yesterday, went on to be a Disney writer and animator.) We’ll start our look back at 1924 with a strip I didn’t know existed, possibly because it was only around for about three years. Ring Lardner was a popular writer and this was something of an extension of […]
The first Daylight Saving Time changeover was March 30, 1918, back when photographic set pieces like this, featuring small children in hastily-made costumes, were a fading but still present part of newspaper graphics. One complication was that the next day was Easter, but the good people of Harrisburg, PA, didn’t have to worry about […]
Looks like Dennis and I were on the same page, featuring Comics of Christmas Past, but, as usual, I’ll be more long-winded. Let’s turn the calendar back to 1925, which isn’t a round number but was astonishingly better than 1920. I don’t know what happened in those intervening five years, but newspapers suddenly exploded with […]
A century ago, July 4 fell on a Sunday, which provides some long-form comics. Oddly enough, it provides only a limited amount of holiday hoopla, and I didn’t find a lot of Independence Day graphics to brighten up the place. Instead, Page Ones were covering the Democratic Convention, which, as this Boston Globe Extra explains, […]
Christmas a century ago, as we’ll see, featured many of the same holiday comic strip themes as today, but, as Gustavo Bronstrup’s Christmas cartoon suggests, there was a different tone in a nation barely six weeks out of the Great War. As E. A. Bushnell reminded readers, the end of the war was not […]