The clearest, best-printed example of early Herriman art in existence
Digital download - available instantly upon purchase
In his lean early years trying to make it as a cartoonist in New York City, George Herriman worked at The New World, where he took over a two-year old color Sunday comic western series called Lariat Pete. Herriman drew the last couple of months of the strip before it ended mid-November, 1903. This was in-between his work on Two Jolly Jackies and Major Ozone’s Fresh Air Crusade. This western comic, perhaps a leftover from the World — or a tryout for a series that never happened — appeared in Judge in the October 3, 1903 issue. It’s very similar to the Lariat Pete strips, but the character is shorter and sports a handlebar mustache instead of stubble. This page was given the coveted back cover, always a color lithograph. Earlier, in 1901, Herriman had sold a few black and white cartoons to Judge, but this was by far the most elaborate comic he ever published in the magazine. The lithographic process resulted in far greater clarity and detail in printing than the newspaper presses provided at the time, making this very likely the sharpest example of Herriman’s early style available.
Artist: George Herriman
Source: Judge magazine - October 10, 1903
Resolution: 400 dpi
Dimensions: 3511 × 5182 pixels
Format: .tiff
File Size: 30.2 MB
The clearest, best-printed example of early Herriman art in existence
Digital download - available instantly upon purchase
In his lean early years trying to make it as a cartoonist in New York City, George Herriman worked at The New World, where he took over a two-year old color Sunday comic western series called Lariat Pete. Herriman drew the last couple of months of the strip before it ended mid-November, 1903. This was in-between his work on Two Jolly Jackies and Major Ozone’s Fresh Air Crusade. This western comic, perhaps a leftover from the World — or a tryout for a series that never happened — appeared in Judge in the October 3, 1903 issue. It’s very similar to the Lariat Pete strips, but the character is shorter and sports a handlebar mustache instead of stubble. This page was given the coveted back cover, always a color lithograph. Earlier, in 1901, Herriman had sold a few black and white cartoons to Judge, but this was by far the most elaborate comic he ever published in the magazine. The lithographic process resulted in far greater clarity and detail in printing than the newspaper presses provided at the time, making this very likely the sharpest example of Herriman’s early style available.
Artist: George Herriman
Source: Judge magazine - October 10, 1903
Resolution: 400 dpi
Dimensions: 3511 × 5182 pixels
Format: .tiff
File Size: 30.2 MB