tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15007049227927662992024-03-13T03:06:17.983-07:00Yesterday’s Papersjohn adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.comBlogger1550125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500704922792766299.post-26105266894290263032024-01-26T14:39:00.000-08:002024-01-26T14:42:51.654-08:00RAOUL BARRÉ FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPSPRESS RELEASE OCT0BER 26TH 2024TO UNDERLINE THE 150 YEARS OF RAOUL BARRÉ’S BIRTHTHE RAOUL BARRÉ FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES THAT ITWILL ADD A 10,000$ SCHOLARSHIP IN 2024Gaspard Fauteux, founding president of the john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500704922792766299.post-63846938856883752662024-01-05T09:06:00.000-08:002024-01-05T09:13:52.256-08:00Hearst’s International – ANIMATED CARTOONSGoldwyn Bray Releases, Walt Lantz, Feb 14, 1920
By John Adcock
“Into this period [1917] entered the International Feature Syndicate,
formed by William Randolph Hearst. He placed Gregory La Cava in charge, who
immediately set about improving the cartoons. He increased the number of drawings
from the 2,000 of the average cartoon of the time to 3,500, resulting in
smoother john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500704922792766299.post-78359272315247059422023-12-13T07:45:00.000-08:002023-12-13T10:21:04.640-08:00BEFORE THE CARTOON 2: Comic cuts and conversational captions by John Adcock♠Masthead: The Penny Satirist No 1, April 22, 1837‘I wish we had an agent in Dundee; he might sell
five or six hundred (Penny Satirist) in a week. We have fellows who
clear 10s. a day by selling them in the street, but the brutes go idle the rest
of the week.’ — James Elishama “Shepherd” Smith, 1801-1857
Penny Satirist, April 29, 1837The Penny Satirist, which called john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500704922792766299.post-37106143136797816122023-12-07T09:57:00.000-08:002023-12-07T10:03:17.817-08:00The Great Horse Hoax – LEO CARILLO‘The First Reader’, by Harry Hansen, The Pittsburgh
Press, August 13, 1943
Horseplay doesn’t
get much attention in this soberly serious town nowadays. Practical jokes are
considered amateurish and foolish antics, symptoms of a fading mentality. A man
can’t stand on his head in front of the Public Library without giving his wife
grounds for divorce. Obviously, we have grown up, john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500704922792766299.post-12064761382013228882023-12-04T14:06:00.000-08:002023-12-04T14:08:02.072-08:00Cartoonist Quotes –THOMAS ALOYSIUS DORGAN "TAD" [1877-1929]Silk Hat Harry's Divorce Suit, July 3, 1913“I started ‘Judge Rummy,’ ‘Bunk,’ and the other dogs during the trial of Harry Thaw; they sort of ‘kidded’ the case and became popular. I have been drawing these characters ever since. The 'Indoor Sports’ I thought of about seven years ago (1912), when I was confined to my home with rheumatism. I thought john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500704922792766299.post-78422441099676554902023-12-01T06:06:00.000-08:002023-12-01T06:06:59.198-08:00Cartoonist Quotes – WALT HOBAN"It is easier to make a good picture than a bad one. If the picture is good you feel that it is good and sail clear through it. If it’s bad it’s torture to grind it out. If you look back ten years (1916) at any comic strip that has been running right along to the present time, you will find that the characters have changed in appearance. Characters change without consent of john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500704922792766299.post-7209626879692261902023-11-03T08:59:00.004-07:002023-11-03T09:02:28.225-07:00The Sporting Page –Sid Smith sporting cartoon, Oct 15, 1909. Nearly every major cartoonist drew sporting cartoons at one time or another: Billy DeBeck, Bud Fisher, Geo. Herriman, Harry Hershfield, and Sid Smith for the Chicago Examiner (Buck Nix appearance on the right).⚔⚔⚔john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500704922792766299.post-88756859846103386032023-10-16T15:30:00.002-07:002023-10-17T14:21:33.811-07:00COLLECTING ALLY SLOPER: THE RARE “SLOPER FAMILY” CARD SET or “IF YA
CAN’T WIN ‘EM…PRINT ‘EM”!
by
Bill LeachThis card back image comes from the rare German children’s book “ALLY SLOPER AND THE PAINT POT”.
As an avid collector of Ally
Sloper art and objects, I had been trying to find a set of the unsanctioned
SLOPER FAMILY playing cards. I had only
seen two sets in all my years of collecting.
The firstjohn adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500704922792766299.post-1406297203143338112023-09-26T11:06:00.004-07:002023-09-30T08:24:09.513-07:00The Tragic Life of Thomas Mayhew
by
Robert J. Kirkpatrick
The name
of Mayhew will be very familiar to students of 19th century
literature. Henry Mayhew was one of the founders of Punch, but perhaps better-known for his monumental work London Labour and the London Poor. His
brother Horace was a journalist (he wrote for, amongst others, The Illustrated London News and Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper) and comic
novelist; john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500704922792766299.post-67184094204782914912023-08-01T10:32:00.004-07:002023-08-01T10:34:55.765-07:00Davenport in Denver —Two caricatures of Homer Davenport by AW Steele and Warren Gilbert, Denver Post cartoonists, May 11, 1904.❦john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500704922792766299.post-28816078050253852212023-07-17T07:15:00.011-07:002023-07-17T12:12:55.625-07:00Weirdom’s “Tales From The Plague” by Richard Corben — [1] Richard Corben, color by William Skaar, April 2023Introduction
Bill Leach, contributor of much Ally Sloper
material to YESTERDAY”S PAPERS, has published a limited edition reprint of
Dennis Cunningham’s THE PLAGUE, drawn by Richard Corben, under the imprint of
his own EC HorrorZine, HORROR FROM THE CRYPT OF FEAR Available through BUD PLANT ART BOOKS (HERE). Bill used the john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500704922792766299.post-35857463938609831532023-07-01T07:43:00.000-07:002023-07-01T07:43:53.911-07:00T. E. Powers: TWO OBITUARIES –“I will get a laugh, I will get it moreover,
from the simplest thing, which would, perhaps, never appeal to one person out
of twenty as comic, but it’s there all the same. This line drawing — for that
is all I do — comes perfectly easy and natural to me. I can go into court,
study a person for five minutes, and draw his or her features pretty faithfully
days afterward. It is really very easy whenjohn adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500704922792766299.post-73561418567319041052023-06-14T15:28:00.009-07:002023-06-15T09:10:12.563-07:00A Crowded Life in Comics –JOHN ROMITAby Rick MarschallWe learned that John has died, aged 93. Death comes to all, but in John's case, anybody who met him feels it came too soon; that he was too young; that he had more to give. Maybe Johnny was ready... but we are not. This good-bye hurts.When I joined Marvel in the mid-'70s, I had known Stan Lee outside the superhero world, but didn't really know the Marvel Universe.john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500704922792766299.post-15063095905109670222023-06-05T13:46:00.001-07:002023-06-05T19:49:37.819-07:00Seven Men Who Draw Funny Pictures Clare Briggs, Jan 19, 1916SEVEN MEN WHO DRAW FUNNY
PICTURES—AND LARGE SALARIES
Literary Digest, August 14, 1920, author unknown
DRAWING A FINE PICTURE of Niagara Falls on the starched front
of his father's dress shirt and standing up that night to eat his supper marked
the first venture into art of Bud Fisher, creator of Mutt and Jeff. Now Mr.
Fisher's drawings earn him a quarter of a john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500704922792766299.post-8994995759178162622023-05-18T16:50:00.003-07:002023-05-18T17:19:54.520-07:00On The Queen's Service, A Tale of Many Lands – By J.J.G. Bradley“Now,” said the Foreign Secretary, “I have one more instruction to give you, and it is this: you will travel armed to the teeth, and defend your despatches with your life, for their loss may lose England the Crimean War. Travel night and day, sleep, even in your diligence, with one eye open, for perils will beset you every inch of your way – perils the magnitude of which john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500704922792766299.post-55773337114833395962023-05-03T17:59:00.002-07:002023-05-03T18:02:20.863-07:00Harmsworth's Comic Paper Rivals –Cover: From an oil painting of comic publisher James Henderson, age 50, 1873Alan Clark continues his dynamic paperback series covering early comic history in the UK by taking a step back in time to the late Victorian and Edwardian era of comic and story papers. (The last two volumes covered Comic Papers Between the Wars 1919-1939). The first issue of Comic Cuts, Harmsworth's first comicjohn adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500704922792766299.post-81201429857088133062023-05-01T06:13:00.000-07:002023-05-01T06:13:13.279-07:00Adolph Christian Fera – [1] LA HERALD, Feb 1, 1913[2] LA HERALD, Dec 18, 1912[3] CHICAGO EXAMINER, Sept 21, 1908[4] LA HERALD, Feb 19, 1913[5] LA HERALD, Jan 2, 1913[6] LA HERALD, Feb 24, 1913[7] LA HERALD, Nov 15, 1913 ★ ★ ★ john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500704922792766299.post-28889236159784930632023-04-01T08:40:00.000-07:002023-04-01T08:40:50.847-07:00The Men Who Make The Political Cartoons –BROADWAY WEEKLYFeb 11, 1904 ♪♪♪john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500704922792766299.post-90660417297432819622023-03-01T07:01:00.000-08:002023-03-01T07:01:50.713-08:00THE MYSTERY OF C.A. RANSOM
♠♠ by Robert J. Kirkpatrick ♠♠
C.A. Ransom was once
well-known as a collector of and dealer in penny dreadfuls, boys’ story papers
and boys’ books. He ran a bookshop in London for many years, and he also sold
items by mail order, advertising in boys’ papers. In the late 1920s he was also
a publisher of cheap comics and paperbacks. At the same time, using the name
Charles john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500704922792766299.post-60119982131607191812023-02-01T06:35:00.001-08:002023-02-01T19:48:31.502-08:00AMONG THE NIGHT BIRDS –★ Coulton Waugh, NY Tribune, Sept 22, 1918 ★Leon Trotzky, the Russian foreign minister who is trying his best to perpetuate the Harry Thaw of Potsdam, is well remembered among the night birds at Jack’s restaurant. He used to appear there with Benjamin De Casseres, the poet. De Cessares found Trotzky in “The Gilded Snake,” in West Eighth Street. He introduced him to Frank O’Malley, Tad john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500704922792766299.post-65551876031363297582023-01-27T07:59:00.000-08:002023-01-27T07:59:27.126-08:00Fondation Raoul-Barré/Cinémathèque québécoise. Montreal, January 26, 2023 — The newly launched Fondation Raoul-Barré, an initiative of Gaspard Fauteux, the grandson of Québécois multidisciplinary artist Raoul Barré, is pleased to announce its first partnership, with the Cinémathèque québécoise. The foundation seeks to be a catalyst for innovation by encouraging research and creation in the artistic disciplines that interested Barré john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500704922792766299.post-28481551375945665062023-01-01T06:37:00.000-08:002023-01-01T06:37:07.600-08:00HAPPY NEW YEAR –BLESSINGS TO ALL of our readers and contributors, past and present, from John Adcockand Yesterday's Papers.HT Webster, The Sun (NY), Jan 1, 1920 ❦john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500704922792766299.post-88475016268869483792022-12-20T10:44:00.000-08:002022-12-20T10:44:48.681-08:00COMIC PAPERS BETWEEN THE WARS 1919-1939 ❦Two more volumes by prolific author Alan Clark in his Half-Holiday series detailing comic history in the UK. Comic Papers Between the Wars 1919-1939 covers lot of ground in two small size (A5) volumes packed with illustrations, biographies, and photographs of publishers, editors, authors and writers of the period discussed. Book one covers nursery comics, vaudeville comics, filmjohn adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500704922792766299.post-58487704365626712552022-12-09T08:51:00.001-08:002022-12-09T09:18:08.676-08:00Juniper Junction –Juniper Junction was a long running Canadian institution. It begun running in the twenties in the Toronto Star as a one-panel gag titled Life’s Little Comedies then Birdseye Center. The artist, Jimmy Frise, moved the strip from the Star Weekly to the Montreal Standard in 1947 where it ran in full color (as Juniper Junction) and was even syndicated in john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500704922792766299.post-47055917604103642262022-12-01T08:18:00.001-08:002022-12-01T08:22:28.924-08:00Prince of journalists – George Augustus Sala (1828-1895).Caricature by Alfred Bryan (1852-1859)by John AdcockAt 15, in London, George Augustus Sala began work as a clerk, draftsman, and scene painter, then became Editor of the weekly paper Chat. Mr. Frederick Marriot, the proprietor of Chat “had founded a truly original little weekly periodical with the lugubrious title of The Death Warrant. The office john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com2