Saturday Leftover Day. 

Because I am at the Dutch Comic Con De Stripdagen (where my new book of translated Jacovitti stories will be revealed), I have to rprepare my weekend posts in advance. Luckily I have four new episodes of last week's well recieved screwball comic Salesman Sam for today. If you like it, follow the link for the otehrs (including a set of pretty bad microfiche black and white Sundays I showed years ago).

A Small Step

Saturday Leftover Day. 

Salesman Sam was a very funny screwball strip from the twenties, created by George Swanson (Swan) who went on to create the Flop Family. When he left Sam, it was taken over by Small - in a completely similar style. A friend of mine in one of the Facebook groups I frequent, mentioned it and I remembered I had a couple scanned and waitin gto be cleaned. Since this strip was given almost a whole page, I had to scan it in two parts. Putting them together took more effort than I  thought, so here are the first four - with more to come.

 

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Funny Drawings

Tuesday Comic Strip Day.

Here is a small selection of Saleman Sam Sundays from the twenties by the original artist on the strip, George Swan and his successor, C. D. Small. Paul Tumey has written about this funny strip on his screwball comics blog (which you can find in my list of inks on the right). He has 'one of Swan's last Sundays' from March 1927 and that fits in with my findings. On the earlier ones, Swan also did a funny illustrated title. On the laer oens the title was replaced by an completely different strip altogether. That may have been just in my sample paper, though.