Whatch Them Roll Along

Saturday Leftover Day.

Lately I have been cleaning some of the earliest Sunday from Tumbleweeds. I remember the strip fondly from it's daily appearance in our family's Dutch newspaper. We never got the Sunday, though. Dutch papers don't do Sundays. I have also been translating some of them for my friends and I must say they can be hard to translate as well. But in the process I made and saved copies for this page as well.

When The West Was Snarky

Friday Comic Strip Day.

And here is the next lot of Tumbleweeds on the day it should be: Fridays. Which means I have a week to get the next lot done. Sadly there seems to be something wrong with my disc or scans and some of them keep stalling my Illustrator suite. Come back next week to see how it turned out!

The Weeds Came Tumbling Down

Monday Bonus Day.

Last Friday I accidentally used a set of Steve Roper Sundays I had already shown a couple of weeks ago. I had linked to it on the Steve Roper facebook page so I couldn't remove it. But here are the Tumbleweeds Sundays I should have put up instead. If you go back using the link, you will see I have already shown a large portion of the 1970 Tumbleweeds Sundays. And if no one stops me, I will be doing most of 197a and 1972 as well.

Way Out There

Friday Comic Strip day.

Another Friday, another bouquet of Tumbleweeds.

Double Down In The West

Friday Tumbleweeds Double Down.

As often as I can, I try to share some of my new Tumbleweeds scans from the earliest period. This week I managed to clean six of them. They were printed quite light and it is not always possible to recreate the colors as well as I think they should be.

Naieve Americans

Friday Comic Strip Day.

What's better on a Friday night than to sit back and watch the Tumbleweeds roll by..?

When The West Was Livid

Friday Comic Strip Day.

I am slowly getting back to posting more regularely. Here is another set of Tumbleweeds from 1970.

The Wild, Wild Weed

Friday Comic Strip Day.

Like last week I want to share a couple of Tumbleweeds Sunday I like to share. I will be doing this in small portions, because the full lot of early years of this strip I have prove t be hard to clean up. Tom Ryan used a very thin line, that breaks up easily and form some reason this lot of scans seems to have more problems with the moire effect (the random patterns you can get when scanning a dot printed strip). also, like B.C. it has the additional problem that most of the drawings or panels are very open, so that when you remove the yellow paper color, lots of other stuff disappears as well. Thankfully the scans come out better here then when I am working on them, but every once in a while there will be one that works a little less. If you are coming to this late, follow the link for more.

Tumblin', Tumblin', Tumblin'

Saturday Leftover Day.

A couple of weeks ago Tom K. Ryan passed away. A lot can be said about the man and his career, but let's have a look at some of his work first. I have two whole of years of early Sunday of his strip Tumbleweeds, so let's start there.

Readymade for Tumblr

Tuesday Comic Strip Day.

Two early Tumbleweeds and two that are slightly later. I'd have to check, but it seems as if the earliest Sundays may nog have had a three tier version but a two tier version that could be used in a half tabloid. It's amazing how soon T. K. Ryan found his style and stuck with it. I did those first two before, but wanted to show them because of the difference in format.