Toonerville Trolley -- Safety First in the Skipper's Dental Work -- April 5, 2025

Oakland Tribune, 05-April-1925

I love Fontaine Fox's The Toonerville Trolley That Meets All the Trains. The Skipper takes advantage of the powerful springs that support the trolley pole.

Oakland Tribune, 26-April-1925

Cities and towns all over the nation claim that their transit systems inspired Fontaine Fox's The Toonerville Trolley That Meets All the Trains. Fox himself said that he got the original idea from a decrepit streetcar in the Pelhams. This article claims that a fleet of cars that in Monterey inspired Fox. The cars, which had only one survivor, were bought from San Francisco in the 1890s. I wonder if they were grip cars from cable lines that were shut down or upgraded.

Washington Times, 30-June-1918

Toonerville Trolley -- It Allus Turns the Car Over -- May 6, 2023

Casper Daily Tribune, 30-June-1923

I love Fontaine Fox's The Toonerville Trolley That Meets All the Trains.

Washington Times, 30-June-1918

Krazy Kat -- How Wundafil Is a Echo -- May 2, 2023

Washington Times, 29-April-1923

 I love George Herriman's Krazy Kat.

Washington Times, 30-June-1918

Toonerville Trolley -- On Warm Days the Skipper Often Stops -- June 4, 2022

Wilmington Morning News, 27-June-1922

I love Fontaine Fox's The Toonerville Trolley That Meets All the Trains.

Washington Times, 30-June-1918

Krazy Kat -- Where's Your Tail-Light? June 2, 2022

Saint Louis Star and Times, 12-June-1922

I love George Herriman's Krazy Kat. 

Washington Times, 30-June-1918

Get Hep to a Smooth Drink, Pepsi-Cola -- April 20, 2022

Washington Evening Star, 13-April-1947

"Pepsi" the Pepsi-Cola Cop and his partner raid a party of "jittery-bugs."

Krazy Kat -- As It Was In The Beginning, Etc -- March 5, 2022

Washington Times, 08-March-1922

I love George Herriman's Krazy Kat.

Washington Times, 30-June-1918

Krazy Kat -- I Can Wrinkle His Bean -- June 3, 2021

 

Washington Times, 12-June-1921

I love George Herriman's Krazy Kat. Poor Ignatz is foiled again. Click on the image to see a larger version.

Washington Times, 03-June-1918

I Wunda Where Can Be a Thunda Bug -- June 13, 2020

Washington Times, 26-June-1919

I love George Herriman's Krazy Kat. Click on the image to see a larger version.

The Trolley-Pole Spring Broke Last Week -- June 3, 2020

Washington Times, 15-June-1920

I love Fontaine Fox's The Toonerville Trolley That Meets All the Trains.The spring at the base of the trolley pole keeps the shoe in contact with the overhead wire.

The Skipper Has ... A Fine Place to Stop and Fill Up His Sand Box -- May 7, 2020

Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger, 31-May-1920

I love Fontaine Fox's The Toonerville Trolley That Meets All the Trains. Many vehicles that run on rails have a sand box that can drop some sand on the rail to improve traction.

An Income Tax Investigator -- April 15, 2020

Washington Times, 26-April-1920

I love Fontaine Fox's The Toonerville Trolley That Meets All the Trains.

A Komedy of Komplaints -- March 5, 2020

Washington Times, 17-March-1920

I love George Herriman's Krazy Kat. Click on the image to see a larger version.

Hey Wot? -- February 5, 2020

Washington Times, 22-February-1920

I love George Herriman's Krazy Kat.

Which the Skipper Could Throw Beneath the Wheels -- September 17, 2019

Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger, 23-September-1919

I love Fontaine Fox's The Toonerville Trolley That Meets All the Trains.

That's Where Mr. Owl Made the Most of It -- September 3, 2019

Washington Times, 18-September-1919

I love George Herriman's Krazy Kat.

Pearls Before Swine -- February 5, 2019

www.coverbrowser.com

In honor of the Lunar New Year, the Year of the Pig, here is the cover of Sgt Piggy's Lonely Hearts Club Comic, by Stephen Pastis.  I have enjoyed his comic strip Pearls Before Swine since I first read it in the San Francisco Chronicle.  I hope I take more after Pig than Rat.

Dick Tracy -- September 19, 2015

www.coverbrowser.com

Feature Books started in 1937.  Each issue was devoted to a single comic strip character.  Chester Gould created Dick Tracy in 1931.  The stories became famous for colorful criminals and lots of violence.  By the time I read it in the San Francisco Chronicle, there were strange stories set on the Moon with all sorts of odd technology.  I remember a story about a mummified corpse that particularly disturbed me.  A room in a neighbor's attic reminded me of the setting of that episode. 

Two-Fisted Tales -- August 22, 2014

Two-Fisted Tales was a famous war comic from EC.  This cover of this issue depicts an aerial battle during World War One.

 The image is from the wonderful site CoverBrowser (http://www.coverbrowser.com/).  

Comic Book #7 -- July 20, 2011

I like Spy Smasher. He didn't have fancy powers. He just smashed spies. He had a cool uniform, too. Here we also see one of my favorite cover subjects, Axis leaders getting their comeuppance.