The San Francisco Main Library has some great exhibits, they running one now called "You Don't Say", which is a small history of Wordless Cartoons:
The first three are from Henry or HM Bateman (1887-1970) who was a British Cartoonist:
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| A book of Bateman's drawings 1925 |
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| His book Burlesques-1916 |
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| Bateman |
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| The French political cartoonist Jean Veber (1864-1928)-1901 |
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| The German Humorist Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908) |
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| The work of the Swiss cartoonist Rodolphe Topffer (1799-1846) |
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| One of George Herriman (1880-1944) Krazy Kat's books (1934). Herriman was a huge influence on modern cartoonists like Charles Schultz, Bill Watterson and my favorite R. Crumb among others |
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| "Sad Sack" by Sgt. George Baker (1915-1975) |
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| "The Prints of Paper-A Political and Satirical History of the Years 1756, 1757, 1758, 1759 and 1760" (above and below): |
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| Mad Magazine's Don Martin (1931-2000) and his great SPY vs. SPY |
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| Alternative cartoonist Peter Kuper (1958-) |
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| Sentinel Louie (1936) by O (Otto). Soglow (1900-1975) who also penned by The Little King below: |
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| The Little King (1938) |
Love your post! I actually remember one or two of these! GASP
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Thanks. I did also.
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i absolutely love the main library. i did the tour one day during a time when i was laid off. good times! anyhow, the tour was great. have you done that before? i recommend it.
ReplyDeleteI need to do that. I did get a tour 16 years ago of all the things in the library they have for the visually impaired but not the whole library-I think that would be fun.
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