Origins of the Sunday Comics by Peter Maresca for January 17, 2014

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    WSR  almost 11 years ago

    Perhaps it was a Taurus..?

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    j2p2  almost 11 years ago

    But the punch line is in the title…Or was that customary at the time? Great find!

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    Michael Petrillo Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    Don’t you just love some of these early cowboy- or rural-themed comic strips, like this one pictured here? Let’s saddle up and enjoy!

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    kellyschurman01  almost 11 years ago

    Still eight years from Krazy and Ignatz, there is a vitality of movement to Herriman’s work which is hard to find elsewhere this early in the twentieth century. These early strips, in general, not just his, had a combination of violence and gentleness which seems a bit alien over a hundred years later.

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    wiatr  almost 11 years ago

    Dang, this one pre-dated my father by seven years.

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    Reality,really?  almost 11 years ago

    Has Johnny gruelle look to the characters.

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    traj  almost 11 years ago

    Had a jail in the strip then too.

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    markf_41  about 1 year ago

    There weren’t too many automobiles around in those days, and the ones that were didn’t go very fast.

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