Here is the last set of the run of Hap Hopper Sundays I have bought and scanned for you. I do have a couple more, but none as continuesly running as these. Although Jack Spar;ing cleaned up his act and became a lot more accomplished artist with his next strip Claire Voyant (which I will be showing later), I like the illustrative qualities of Hap Hopper and Sparling's grasp of comic stoytelling and I wonder why this strip never became as well know as some of it's contemporaries. Having seen other forgotten gems like this in the last few years (not in the least George Cark's The Ripples) I can't help but wonder if comic strip historians weren't subtlely influenced by which strips survived into the period they were writing and which ones disappeared along the way.
Showing posts with label Hap Hopper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hap Hopper. Show all posts
Friday, November 25, 2016
Mad Hopper
Thursday Story Strip Day.
Here is the last set of the run of Hap Hopper Sundays I have bought and scanned for you. I do have a couple more, but none as continuesly running as these. Although Jack Spar;ing cleaned up his act and became a lot more accomplished artist with his next strip Claire Voyant (which I will be showing later), I like the illustrative qualities of Hap Hopper and Sparling's grasp of comic stoytelling and I wonder why this strip never became as well know as some of it's contemporaries. Having seen other forgotten gems like this in the last few years (not in the least George Cark's The Ripples) I can't help but wonder if comic strip historians weren't subtlely influenced by which strips survived into the period they were writing and which ones disappeared along the way.
Here is the last set of the run of Hap Hopper Sundays I have bought and scanned for you. I do have a couple more, but none as continuesly running as these. Although Jack Spar;ing cleaned up his act and became a lot more accomplished artist with his next strip Claire Voyant (which I will be showing later), I like the illustrative qualities of Hap Hopper and Sparling's grasp of comic stoytelling and I wonder why this strip never became as well know as some of it's contemporaries. Having seen other forgotten gems like this in the last few years (not in the least George Cark's The Ripples) I can't help but wonder if comic strip historians weren't subtlely influenced by which strips survived into the period they were writing and which ones disappeared along the way.
Friday, November 18, 2016
Hop On The Glory Train
Thursday Story Strip Day.
For his second longer story, Hap Hopper goes to a more exotic place than occupied Holland.
For his second longer story, Hap Hopper goes to a more exotic place than occupied Holland.
Thursday, November 10, 2016
A Long Time Ago In A Galaxy Quite Nearby...
Thursday Story Strip Day.
Continuing my run of Jack Sparling's forgotten adventure strip of the forties, these Hap Hopper Sundays represent the first leg in the ungoing story line version. Up to this point, all the Sundays (most of which you cn see if you folow the link) had been of the gag-a-sunday type.From here they had their own storyline. Although traditionally Sunday storylines were thirteen weeks in those days this first story seems to have been shorter. It starts when Hap and his girlfriend find themselves in an unfamiliar country after a plane crash. Well, unfamiliar to some...
Continuing my run of Jack Sparling's forgotten adventure strip of the forties, these Hap Hopper Sundays represent the first leg in the ungoing story line version. Up to this point, all the Sundays (most of which you cn see if you folow the link) had been of the gag-a-sunday type.From here they had their own storyline. Although traditionally Sunday storylines were thirteen weeks in those days this first story seems to have been shorter. It starts when Hap and his girlfriend find themselves in an unfamiliar country after a plane crash. Well, unfamiliar to some...
Friday, October 28, 2016
A Hitler A Day Keeps The Hopper Away
Thursday Story Strip Day
As promised more of Jack Sparling's Hap Hopper. These are the last of his stand alone Sunday gags. After this, the Sundays went into an unging storyline, just like the dailies. I don't have the dailies to go with these, so I can't check if the daily and Sunday storylines were seperate, but it does seem that way.
With that I have a set of dailies from November 1941, where the girl meets Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito in a dream sequence, just like she does in the later Sunday shown here. A remarkable sequence, all the more because it appeared in the month before Pearl Harbor - so before America entered the war.
As promised more of Jack Sparling's Hap Hopper. These are the last of his stand alone Sunday gags. After this, the Sundays went into an unging storyline, just like the dailies. I don't have the dailies to go with these, so I can't check if the daily and Sunday storylines were seperate, but it does seem that way.
With that I have a set of dailies from November 1941, where the girl meets Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito in a dream sequence, just like she does in the later Sunday shown here. A remarkable sequence, all the more because it appeared in the month before Pearl Harbor - so before America entered the war.
Thursday, October 13, 2016
Hop Along, Folks
Thursday Story Strip Day.
Last week I showed a new set op Hap Hopper Sunday strips from 1942 - not realising that I had already put them up a couple of weeks before that. Anyway, here are the next two months in their glorious color. And, as I promised, with more to come.
Last week I showed a new set op Hap Hopper Sunday strips from 1942 - not realising that I had already put them up a couple of weeks before that. Anyway, here are the next two months in their glorious color. And, as I promised, with more to come.
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