Congrats to "Stripper's Guide," which just celebrated its 1000th post! For those who still don't know the name, the Guide is a blog that's dedicated to archiving historical newspaper comic strips. Man, there's some good stuff on this site!
http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/
Straight from Stripper's Guide, here's (the two pictures above) some more George Herriman from 1907. Be sure to click to enlarge. Really, can there be any doubt that Herriman was one of the 5 or 10 greatest cartoonists of the last century?
More Herriman (above). It's a shame that modern newspapers insist on regular, repeating characters. Some cartoonists are better off doing whatever enthuses them at the moment.
Herriman (above) loved to play with novel layouts.
Allan Holtz, the hero who runs the Guide, takes a special interest in finding neglected strips that no one else knows about. Here's (above) an interesting one from 1903: "Crazy Charlie." The premise is simple: every week Charlie escapes from the insane asylum and gets in trouble in the town.
Here's (above) another lost classic: "Pussy Pumpkin." Every week an outraged animal stumbles on a bully then beats the daylights out of him. Not what you call plot heavy, but it was good enough to back up the weird graphics.
I couldn't resist one more Herriman.
