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2-D Celebrities

I thought today we might just glance at three celebrities who can be remembered by heir postcards. Each was responsible for a lot more cultural baggage than that: bits of our language, tie-in merchandise, musical history, and all that. But even at that, they are nowhere NEAR as big as once they were. Continue reading “2-D Celebrities”

You Need to Know

We care going to discuss technical matters today, using a hidden language defined by Mort Walker. Walker’s work in cartooning from early on led to his creation of an awkward teenager named Beetle Bailey. One day Beetle, fleeing some typical comic strip catastrophe, ducked into an Army recruiting office to hide, and a legendContinue reading “You Need to Know”

Around His Neck

So in our last two installments, we considered the mockery postcard cartoonists made of two items of women’s fashion in the 1905-1915 era: the hobble skirt and the picture hat. Can we have the same wild and crazy time considering men’s fashion of the period? Well, if you look at that first picture,Continue reading “Around His Neck”