This is not the REAL SHoC (Secret History of Comics) promised yesterday, but it's a pretty good one. It's a scan on Google Books of Cartoons Magazine from 1918 - actually it's over 500 pages long so it must be most of the year's issues! Hoo-hah!
These are pretty well-known to hardcore collectors, but out of the price range of ordinary guys like me. Let's give a moment to appreciate the bequest of John Amory Lowell.
Now... to print or not to print...
Here's a 1920 Keeping Up with the Joneses from Pop Momand...
...Winsor McCay's Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend...
...Thomas Masson's 1922 Our American Humorists has a chapter on comics artists - with few kind words...
...and a microfiche version of The Good Things of Life, Sixth Series, which is early gag cartooning.
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