Comments on: Terry and the Pirates ... Little Orphan Annie ... Buster Brown ...

Terry and the Pirates ... Little Orphan Annie ... Buster Brown ...

anastasiav — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:16:54 -0800

:: Amazing Archive of Vintage Comic Strips

By: anastasiav

anastasiav — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:19:06 -0800

Part of this site was discussed on Metafilter in August of this year, but that post focused on a single strip -- The Outbursts of Everett True, without touching on the rest of the site.

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:40:01 -0800

Wow. Fantastic post. Thanks!

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:42:18 -0800

This is great. I looked at the Outbursts with that last post, but had no idea the rest was here. Some of the stuff is just fun and innocent, some, like Terry and the Pirates would be a lot cooler if it weren't so stereotypically racist. This is an excellent post. Thanks.

By: Scoo

Scoo — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:01:10 -0800

Omie, I know what you mean. I have a great Terry and the Pirates collection at home that I wont share with my five year old because of the sub-human depiction of the Chinese, esp. the doofus Connie. It's difficult to reconcile; Caniff is an amazing comics artist, and the adventures are a blast. I suppose with older media, there's just some shit you have to put up with: Finally, racism is on display in many Gilded-Age cartoons and comics (and on up to WWII). If black people are being portrayed, it is rarely in a positive way. Even when non-white races are portrayed sympathetically, it's in a degrading and stereotypical fashion. But I reckon as how there's more to be gained by seeing a fuller picture of the era, unbowdlerized or retro-sanitized. I suppose I'm a hypocryte for not finding offence with Flyin' Jenny's lovely legs...

By: octothorpe

octothorpe — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:49:28 -0800

There was a Woody Allen comic strip? Who knew?

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 12:32:30 -0800

octothorpe, I do dimly remember seeing this strip in some paper in the 70s, maybe our local one in Cincinnati. It's dim enough that a few years back the memory recurred and I couldn't tell if I was just imagining there had been such a strip. Good to have that confirmed as real. And among the minor revelations in this treasure trove, the single panel of They'll Do It Every Time, even though it doesn't contain the phrase "Tip of the Hat to," made me finally realize that longtime tagline was a play on the author's name, Jimmy Hatlo. Duh!

By: MinPin

MinPin — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 12:36:07 -0800

Treasure trove. Is anybody doing this yet with British comics — Dandy, Beano, Eagle, etc?

By: jonson

jonson — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 12:53:58 -0800

God please say yes. I would love an old archive of Bash Street Kids, Dennis The Menace (the REAL Dennis, not the American brat), etc.

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:09:01 -0800

Wow, that's fascinating too, thanks jonson. It seems that the two Dennis the Menaces (Dennises the Menace?) appeared on the world stage almost simultaneously in March 1951. BUT Hank Ketcham beat David Law by a full five days, which means we can forever call the UK version a ripoff of the American one!

By: Smedleyman

Smedleyman — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:31:43 -0800

Nifty

By: languagehat

languagehat — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:46:04 -0800

Fantastic. Thanks, anastasiav.

By: jdroth

jdroth — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:03:03 -0800

Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. I rarely read the blue anymore, so I'm glad an AskMe question pointed here, otherwise I might never have discovered this. I'm a casual collector of old comic strips, and there's just not a whole lot of information out there about them. Thank you very much for posting this.

By: JDC8

JDC8 — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:25:26 -0800

Definitely one of the best of the web!

By: Deathalicious

Deathalicious — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:11:31 -0800

via?

By: anastasiav

anastasiav — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 20:33:21 -0800

deathalicious, if I'd had a via, I would have posted it. I found this on del.icio.us.

By: Dr. Wu

Dr. Wu — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 22:14:55 -0800

huzzah!

By: languagehat

languagehat — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 09:06:09 -0800

What the hell is this business of snarking at posters for supposedly covering up their sources? What makes you think you know where they got their link, and why do you care? Enjoy it or don't, but skip the snotty "via?" crap.

By: caddis

caddis — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 08:56:42 -0800

Wow, this is great. I missed this the other day. Thank ~~God~~ Matt for the Contributions from Contacts page; otherwise I would have completely missed this. Nice post anastasiav!