Katzenjammer weeks closing: Nixcumheraus!

McManus first for Hearst

Thanks to the archivist

Katzenjammer week 2: swimming lessons in 1902

Katzenjammer week 2: as in a looking glass

Katzenjammer week 2: Der Captain says goodbye

Katzenjammer week 2: pinch pinch pinch!

Katzenjammer week 2: never will I whip der darlings again!

Katzenjammer week 2: Foxy Mrs Katzenjammer

A second week of Katzenjammer kids dedicated to the Dirks brothers and especially Rudolph brother Gustav. We try to compilate a Bugsville dedication week in the near future in memory of Gus.

A Rea Irvin Smythes sunday

January 8, 1933

Willie's family

Cousin Willie and the Antitobaco Crusade

Cousin Willie: again a good day for shorty

1916

Cousin Willie: a good meal for shorty

Cousin Willie by Frederick Burr Opper (1916)

Again a platinum Age surprise for you! 

Rain and Thunder

An intermezzo from the continuing pranks of the hangover kids. So relax and smell the coffee on your sunday morning. A scan of a Frank King original Sunday from 1924!

Katzenjammer week: a telephone message from 1904

Katzenjammer week: Der Captain sleeps not well

Katzenjammer week: Maggie and Lena

Katzenjammer week' Vat iss! A leak!!

Katzenjammer week: the floor ain't good enough

Katzenjammer week The oaken bucket

This week a week full of pranks, well, early 1900s-pranks performed the reincarnations of the German Max und Moritz (by Wilhelm Busch). In 1893 Rudolph Dirks copied the two "belhamels" (name of the comic in Flanders) or "doeraks" (name of the comic in Dutch) but added al lot to it and even let them speak some early 20th century colonist American-German. In 1918 the comic split in two because of an argument with William Randolph Hearst, the mighty and powerfull newspaper giant (but also the mecenas of early comics (because he earned a lot money through their immense popularity). Hearst let Harold Knerr draw the Katzenjammer kids (from 1918 untill 1949) but Dirks started an almost identical comic in another newspaper called The captain and the kids! Everything is possible in the Platinum Age.

Autumn at last!

The Gumps: Escape from a thousand dangers

Chester Gump back in the civilized world

The Gumps: Saved by Uncle Bim

The Gumps: Almost saved!

The Gumps : Chester and Ching Chow are lost on a dangerous island

The Gumps: Shaking of the Cannibals

These weekdays are all sundays. Your Platinum Age dailies blogspot presents a week of Gumps Sunday pages by Sydney Smith!

Swimming lessons in 1921