Today we have another wonderful strip from William Steinigans, scribe of Bill’s bad dreams, a couple of adorable pups, and Mr. Grimes’ goat! In fact, Splinters is something of a spin-off from the Pups, who co-star in this strip about a mischievous clown. As with all of his other features, this is gorgeously rendered and quite amusing. A worthy strip with which to spend some time!
I’ve added about sixty new strips to the archive of George McManus’ classic pre-Bringing Up Father strip, The Newlyweds! They start in April of 1911 and carry through August of ’12!
It’s cold down here at the beach in North Carolina, but we can’t make a snowball, let alone a Frappe Snow Man, so I won’t complain!
It’s been a while since we posted some dailies, and I’ve been thinking it might be fun to take a look at a series that ran in the paper exactly one hundred years ago. What I had not planned on was going with this one, but sometime you just have to run with what you have on hand…ladies and gentleman, may I introduce you to Old Doc Gayboy? Old Doc Gayboy is the creation of Jean Paul Arnot, who has a few other credits to his name, most notably The General (which I hope to add to in the coming year). Posted here are dailies for the month of December, 1913 (here is December 1st). There are a few days that are missing and from what I can tell, the strip simply did not run on those dates. To be honest, there are actually a few episodes in the Doc-and-Romeo-at-the-circus continuity I wouldn’t mind skipping, but we here at Barnacle Press take a “warts and all” approach when presenting our discoveries. This is probably a good time to remind folks that comics of this era may contain unfortunate, and often offensive, racial and ethnic depictions that will likely (hopefully) be jarring to a modern reader. I personally don’t feel this exactly excuses creators for giving us these depictions, but it is important to try to view these through a different lens, keeping historical perspective in mind (to me, most of the time these offensive strips seem to come more from a misguided place than a hateful one, though that may well be up to individual interpretation). If I haven’t scared you off, enjoy the forgotten adventures of Old Doc Gayboy today.
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It looks like Santa left a little something in the stocking for you to play with today. Enjoy!
