Screwball comic verse and mayhem around 1900s labor unions
“Pork chops and lard increase in price and cheese increases, too
If things keep on this way, poor men, what can you say or do?”
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A splendid example of the hilarious, somewhat subversive forgotten comic strip Jingling Johnson by W.R. Bradford. In this episode, Dr. Domehead, acting as Johnson’s agent, gains him a speaking engagement before a group of labor organizers. Johnson, who is insane, begins well enough — but soon he has turned his poetic ire at the audience and all heck breaks loose. There is a chapter on Bradford in Paul Tumey’s book, Screwball! The Cartoonists Who Made the Funnies Funny. Bradford’s poet character’s appearance is modeled on the cartoonist himself.
Artist: W.R. Bradford
Source: The Memphis News-Scimitar newspaper Sunday comic supplement, August 29, 1909
Resolution: 600 dpi
Dimensions: 9475 × 6850 pixels (15.8 × 11.4 inches)
Format: .tiff
File Size: 178 MB
Screwball comic verse and mayhem around 1900s labor unions
“Pork chops and lard increase in price and cheese increases, too
If things keep on this way, poor men, what can you say or do?”
Digital download - available instantly upon purchase
A splendid example of the hilarious, somewhat subversive forgotten comic strip Jingling Johnson by W.R. Bradford. In this episode, Dr. Domehead, acting as Johnson’s agent, gains him a speaking engagement before a group of labor organizers. Johnson, who is insane, begins well enough — but soon he has turned his poetic ire at the audience and all heck breaks loose. There is a chapter on Bradford in Paul Tumey’s book, Screwball! The Cartoonists Who Made the Funnies Funny. Bradford’s poet character’s appearance is modeled on the cartoonist himself.
Artist: W.R. Bradford
Source: The Memphis News-Scimitar newspaper Sunday comic supplement, August 29, 1909
Resolution: 600 dpi
Dimensions: 9475 × 6850 pixels (15.8 × 11.4 inches)
Format: .tiff
File Size: 178 MB