Bitter End

Thursday short and sweet. 

Whenever I find a strip I like, I always have a look to see if I can find the first and last week of it. I have shared some of Jack Sparlings Claire Voyant,  but the last week was done very exceptionally.

 

Kid's Stuff

Wednesday Women's Way. 

Yesterday I shared six weks of Hank Barrow political cartoons. I came across them when I was loking fr some on Charles Raab's Paty in Hollywood strips, which I am sharing here. To me Raab is the most underrated of all the Milt Caniff imitators. When he did Charlie Chan, all the credit went to Alfred NAdriola. When he did Patsy, most comic bok historians say that Noel Sickles hosted most of them. That is not true. First of all, Sickles was only involved for a short period of time. He came in on fridays and sketched a week's worth of strips, which Raab subsequently embellished. Great stuff, some of the best of it's period.

 

Prime Politics

Tuesday Antifa Post. 

As regalar visitors of my blog know I am fascinated (some may say obsessed) with the political cartoons of Hank Barrow (AP collegue of Noel Sickles and Milt Caniff), one of the original Anti Fascist crowd. I have posted many of his cartoons, some from a huge stack of cut-out cartoons I scanned myself, others (like these) from micro-fiche sources. And there may be doubles. On the other hand, he did almost one every day, so I could go on for ages.