Preside at the Pail
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“Gee whiz! Dont I wish every day wuz de fourth”
Art by E.W. Kemble. Scan by me of a photo purchased on eBay of a copy of a photo of a photo of a scan* of a photo of a page in the June 29, 1904, issue of Puck magazine. If any of you happen to have a copy of that issue handy, please sent it to me as I have been on the hunt for it for years.
*My theory.
A Post-Victorian Flight of Fancy
AS USUAL.
“Let me know when we get to Mars.”
“We passed Mars ten planets ago, ma’am.”
This early cartoon/comic/illustration/panel is weird, wonderful and a work of art. It’s as if Jules Verne and Mark Twain had a baby, and I dig it.
The Artist is F.W. Read, but there is scant info online except for a few other pieces of work and that he/she studied in Paris at Académie Julian in 1891. If you know more, please let me know!
Wet Your Whistle
“Oh, you’re practicing social distancing in the future? What a shame. Well… I guess I’ll just have to help myself to your Gin Rickey and the rest of the pitcher too!”
Herbert Johnson’s Evolution of the Horse (1906)
Woe Is Me
Walt Kuhn for Life humor magazine, December 13, 1906
Is that an unlimited data plan in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
It’s almost as if Cricket Wireless is encouraging the Internet to add penises to their characters.
Dangling the opportunity right in front of us, so to speak.
Dance with a Witch in the Moonlight
One of the finest Halloween covers in American magazine history.
Art by the brilliant Earl Oliver Hurst.
There’s always room for Maxfield Parrish
This Week in Ephemera
This is a score! The entire 1916 year of McCall’s magazine and in beautiful condition, especially considering these twelve issues are over a hundred years old.