The little drunk in the last panel reminds me of Mutt from Mutt & Jeff. But that was by different artists, although it was the same time period. Perhaps it was a friendly nod to the other strip.
Speaking of Herriman, archive has a cbz of his early work, and almost everything in its hundreds of pages is non-continuity—either topical panels, topical strips, or illustrations for articles. There are political cartoon illustrations here as epic as McCay’s.
Hm, I thought I’d already linked this. Well, here’s 760 pages of George Herriman antiquities from California newspapers, mostly editorial art, standalone topical strips, or story illustration. Some of the editorial cartoons remind me of Winsor McCay’s similar epic compositions, shaded to the max. Downloadable. The CBZ version opens to any free (or expensive) comic reader. There’s a PDF, but it’s 80MB, while the CBZ is 200MB. With that kind of size difference, the PDF will not look anywhere near as good.
HappyDog/ᵀʳʸ ᴮᵒᶻᵒ ⁴ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵘⁿ ᵒᶠ ᶦᵗ Premium Member about 3 years ago
The little drunk in the last panel reminds me of Mutt from Mutt & Jeff. But that was by different artists, although it was the same time period. Perhaps it was a friendly nod to the other strip.
Kip Williams about 3 years ago
Speaking of Herriman, archive has a cbz of his early work, and almost everything in its hundreds of pages is non-continuity—either topical panels, topical strips, or illustrations for articles. There are political cartoon illustrations here as epic as McCay’s.
https://archive.org/details/herrimangeorge/Herriman%2C%20George
Kip Williams about 3 years ago
Hm, I thought I’d already linked this. Well, here’s 760 pages of George Herriman antiquities from California newspapers, mostly editorial art, standalone topical strips, or story illustration. Some of the editorial cartoons remind me of Winsor McCay’s similar epic compositions, shaded to the max. Downloadable. The CBZ version opens to any free (or expensive) comic reader. There’s a PDF, but it’s 80MB, while the CBZ is 200MB. With that kind of size difference, the PDF will not look anywhere near as good.
https://archive.org/details/herrimangeorge/Herriman%2C%20George
Kip Williams about 3 years ago
The plot thickens:
https://www.gocomics.com/ordinary-bill/2021/11/05?ct=v&cti=2465023