The First Mum

Sunday Easter Booster.

 Some time agoI shared some work by the cartoonist Sakren who was one of the regulars of the Johstone and Cushing comic strip advertising company, along with Dik Brown, Gil Fox and Bill Williams. I knew he had a few newspaper strips in the late fifties and early fifties, but it turned out he had had a very funny silent comic strip in the late thirties. Well... it turns out that it was not so late in the thirties he began. Here are some Mortimer Mum dailies from when it started in 1935.

 

Silence Still Is Golden

Saturday Leftover Day.

Irving Philips did his Mr. Mum cartoon for over twelve years, probably more. So there are at least 600 cartoons out there. I ahve clipped them wherever I can, but I haven't evenscratched the surface. Presented in the right way, I think these timeless ssiltent cartoon (ant the crazy Sundays) would make for a terrific book.

Using Language

Saturday Leftover Day. 

I have come across Mr' Mum's Irving Philps' late forties cartoon strip Scuffy (and shown it on ths blog), but I did not know he already had anotherdaily cartoon strip in the early forties.

Stay Inside

Saturday Leftover Day.

I know I am supposed to give you something to read these days, but today I have a textless strip. I have shown Mr. Mum before, a cartooning tour de force that ran all through the sixties with undiminished quality. I have to admit it is a hard strip to scan and clean. Alle the colrs run together and it is very easy to to them into some sort of murky slush. I tried a new way this time, if you follow the link you can see my previous attemps (and a lot more). Stay inside and read my blog.