Monday Cartoon Day.
Roger Armstrong was a versatile artist, who ghosted many strips in comic books and newspapers. He did stories for Dell's Disney Comics in the forties and fifties and drew Hanna-Barbara characters in the sixties. Inbetween he did newspaper strips that were usually started by someone else, such as Ella Cinders, Napoleon and Scamp. Here is a short run of a newspaper gag panel from 1946 I had never seen before. It is signed Armstrong, but neither the style nor the signature look like Roger's.
This week's game - on the third panel, the caption of the second one is accidentally reused. Myquestion - what would the original caption have been?
Sadly, Alan Holtz's American Newspaper Strips doesn't mention this one. Now I have to go back and see where I got it. And thanks to commenter DD Degg we now have a face with the name.
5 comments:
Lang Armstrong of the Spokane Daily Chronicle.
D.D.Degg
Thanks! So why is it not in Alan's book? Came up later
Check Holtz's book under "The Sporting Thing", where he says it was syndicated by Lloyd James Williams syndicates but your obit says the Bell Syndicate.
D.D.Degg
Found it!
Perhaps the caption on the third cartoon was something like "Put $3 on number four to show."
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