Yay! Love this one! This is the fist memory I have of Buster Brown, back from when I got to read the Smithsonian´s Book of Comics at the college library some 25 years ago.
Wow, a comic with social consciousness toward animals and poverty in 1905. Who’d a thunk it?
Loved the “Slide Kelly Slide” reference, too. That was the title to a song about a baseball player of the ’80’s and ’90’s named Mike “King” Kelly, who was the most popular ballplayer in America back then and a real character.
Not only two “Buster Browns” and “Yellow Kids”, but “Katzenjammer Kids”. Apparently the practice was not uncommon. Copyright was a murky area back then.
Dave Thorby over 10 years ago
“If you have good health and a good disposition and a few thousand dollars a month, you ought to be satisfied I think”
How much were cartoonists paid in 1905?
nailer Premium Member over 10 years ago
Yay! Love this one! This is the fist memory I have of Buster Brown, back from when I got to read the Smithsonian´s Book of Comics at the college library some 25 years ago.
davidf42 over 10 years ago
Hi! I’m Buster Brown! Look for me in your shoe!Arf! Arf!That’s my dog Tige! Look for him in there too!
Guilty Bystander over 10 years ago
Wow, a comic with social consciousness toward animals and poverty in 1905. Who’d a thunk it?
Loved the “Slide Kelly Slide” reference, too. That was the title to a song about a baseball player of the ’80’s and ’90’s named Mike “King” Kelly, who was the most popular ballplayer in America back then and a real character.
pauljmsn over 10 years ago
Not only two “Buster Browns” and “Yellow Kids”, but “Katzenjammer Kids”. Apparently the practice was not uncommon. Copyright was a murky area back then.
MysteryCat over 10 years ago
Anyone get the “let her go Gallagher” reference?
Are those passenger pigeons on the roof?
reynard61 over 10 years ago
Wouldn’t a bucket of ice water dumped on the head have been simpler?