Remember The Time

Sunday Embarassing Day. Embarrassing Moments was a longer running daily panel that ran from the early twenties to somewhere in the thirties. It was probably produced by some sort of billpen, with various artists contributing. In 1928 George Herriman (of Krazy Kat fame) took over from Darrel McClure. I have shown some of these delightful panels before. They are especially nice because they show Herriman using human characters. But this month I have gone back to get them from the start. He seems to have started on a Saturday. His run extended to 1932 and I hope to one day have shown them all.

Jazz Lines

Saturday Mexican Day. I cleaned up a few more Gordo Sundays. I have shown some earlier and they are among my most copied scans. And actually, they are the reason that I have started adding a light copyright line to my scans. Oddly, book containing Gordo are not selling well. Maybe because they have not been in color? Or maybe Gordo works best as a one off illustration? I just like them regardless.

 

Laughing Out Not So Loud

Thursday Extra Day. 

 

 Bil Keane will always be best known for his saccharine family series The Family Circus. Especially the many Snday he did with the kid who blames a ghost, or the stippled line that show how one of the other kids took the long route from a to b. My personal favorite has always been his Channel Chuckles gag panel (daily and Sunday) that ran from long before The Circus was born until deep into it's run. But when exactly did it start? Today I went back and had a look. It seems Channel Chuckles was an immediate hit, probably due to the fact that it's onr column format was especiall made for use on the otherwise dull tv listing page. I narrowed my search to California papers and found six who started it from the beginning, february 15, 1954. The first three weeks are numbered, altough not every paper used them in the same order.