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 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 years ago
Anyone get the “let her go Gallagher” reference?
Are those passenger pigeons on the roof?
reynard61 over 9 years ago
Wouldn’t a bucket of ice water dumped on the head have been simpler?