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Opper, Outcault and Company
Roy McCardell's 1905 article about the state of the Sunday comic strip supplement on its tenth anniversary.
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Pen Bites Man: The Inkslinging Virtuosity of Edward Sorel
A look at Edward Sorel's memoir "Profusely Illustrated", as well as work from his illustration career.
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The Visual Verve and Vibrancy of Bud Blake and Tiger
The Home News was the newspaper in central New Jersey that my family subscribed to when I was a kid. It’s where I was introduced to the weirdness of Ernie Bushmiller’s Nancy, the trials and tribulations of Harry Hanan’s Louie, and the beautifully drawn, sweetly humored Tiger by Bud Blake. Growing up, Tiger was comfortably familiar to me. Blake’s gags revolved around everyday kid stuff. The strip didn’t have the psychological weight of Peanuts. There wasn’t a ton of depth to the cast of characters. We knew that Punkinhead could be a nudge, Hugo liked to eat, and Julius was a bookish type. Tiger himself was sort of his strip’s…