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Buster Brown, a completely fabulous strip about an insane little weirdo with 'bad judgement'. Usually that means destruction and/or crazy eyes (but sometimes it is completely incomprehensible); check the graphic part of the last panel of this strip for some high-grade proof.
I also love the scary wide-mouthed profiles, the difference in drawing style and morphology between the householders and the help, the occasional big awkward hands, the amusing signage, and the baffling rambling 'resolutions' that Buster makes every strip. Oh, and the way he hates his mother wearing hats with birds on them. God, it's just a wondrous thing. I think you should read it.
Curses from 1920.
(I rather enjoyed today's Eegra, too.)
Buster Brown, a completely fabulous strip about an insane little weirdo with 'bad judgement'. Usually that means destruction and/or crazy eyes (but sometimes it is completely incomprehensible); check the graphic part of the last panel of this strip for some high-grade proof.
I also love the scary wide-mouthed profiles, the difference in drawing style and morphology between the householders and the help, the occasional big awkward hands, the amusing signage, and the baffling rambling 'resolutions' that Buster makes every strip. Oh, and the way he hates his mother wearing hats with birds on them. God, it's just a wondrous thing. I think you should read it.
Curses from 1920.
“[...]some reporter in the West referred to him as a regular guy. At first Mr. Chesterton was for going after the fellow with a stick. Certainly a topsy-turvy land, the United States, where you can’t tell opprobrium from flattering compliment.” [...] The American derivative verb, to guy, is unknown in English; its nearest equivalent is to spoof, which is used in the United States only as a conscious Briticism.
The Victorian era saw a great growth of absurd euphemisms in England, including second wing for the leg of a fowl, but it was in America that the thing was carried farthest. Bartlett hints that rooster came into use in place of cock as a matter of delicacy, the latter word having acquired an indecent significance, and tells us that, at one time, even bull was banned as too vulgar for refined ears. In place of it the early purists used cow-creature, male-cow and even gentleman-cow.
(I rather enjoyed today's Eegra, too.)