Category : Herriman’s LA Examiner Cartoons

Herriman Saturday, Swan Song Edition: June 22 1910

 

June 22 1910 — So here it is, Herriman’s last cartoon for the Los Angeles Examiner, and BIG SURPRISE, it’s about the upcoming Fight of the Century. Since George’s first Family Upstairs strip was published in New York on June 20, it is safe to say that this cartoon was published well after Herriman had cleaned out his west coast desk. 

So after fifteen years is this the end of Herriman Saturday? Well actually it is not, at least not quite. For awhile now I have been scanning Herriman one-shot cartoons from his earlier days in New York, before he went to the west coast, so we’re going to have the Herriman Saturday Bonus Round for a short while until I use up my small inventory of those. You’ll get to see just how downright awful George’s early work was, bad enough to give the most unpolished amateur cartoonist hope that they too could someday be considered one of the greatest cartoonists ever to hold a pen. 

See you here next Saturday!

Herriman Saturday: June 12 1910

 

June 12 1910 — A bittersweet announcement goes with this post. As we come to June 1910 in our complete reprinting of Herriman’s LA Examiner cartoons, we have reached his final month with the paper. Yes, believe it or not, Herriman won’t be at the Examiner for the Fight of the Century on July 4. Instead he’ll be in New York starting a little strip called The Family Upstairs before the month is out, and finally carving out his exalted place in the history of newspaper cartooning.

This Stripper’s Guide series has been running since June 2 2007, believe it or not. It has taken us a decade and a half to chronicle all of Herriman’s (major) cartoons for the Examiner from 1906 to 1910, roughly three times as long as it took Herriman to produce them. 

There is now just one last cartoon left. Be here next Saturday!

Today’s cartoon, yet another about the upcoming Fight of the Century, was run a week after his last cartoon, probably indicating that it may have been set aside earlier to run in this Sunday edition.

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  1. Even allowing for perspective, Johnson is made to look a lot taller then Jeffries, though they were about the same height.

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Herriman Saturday: June 5 1910

 

June 5 1910 — A bittersweet announcement goes with this post. As we come to June 1910 in our complete reprinting of Herriman’s LA Examiner cartoons, we have reached his final month with the paper. Yes, believe it or not, Herriman won’t be at the Examiner for the Fight of the Century on July 4. Instead he’ll be in New York starting a little strip called The Family Upstairs before the month is out, and finally carving out his exalted place in the history of newspaper cartooning.

This Stripper’s Guide series has been running since June 2 2007, believe it or not. It has taken us a decade and a half to chronicle all of Herriman’s (major) cartoons for the Examiner from 1906 to 1910, roughly three times as long as it took Herriman to produce them. 

There are now just two more cartoons left. Be here for all of ’em!

Today’s cartoon takes yet another look at the upcoming Fight of the Century. Here’s the real question, though: would Herriman have had the guts to depict Jim Jeffries in a tutu if George wasn’t on his way out of town?  I dunno, but I’m betting that prizefighters like Jeffries don’t have highly developed humorous bones.

Herriman Saturday: June 4 1910

 

June 4 1910 — A bittersweet announcement goes with this post. As we come to June 1910 in our complete reprinting of Herriman’s LA Examiner cartoons, we have reached his final month with the paper. Yes, believe it or not, Herriman won’t be at the Examiner for the Fight of the Century on July 4. Instead he’ll be in New York starting a little strip called The Family Upstairs before the month is out, and finally carving out his exalted place in the history of newspaper cartooning.

This Stripper’s Guide series has been running since June 2 2007, believe it or not. It has taken us a decade and a half to chronicle all of Herriman’s (major) cartoons for the Examiner from 1906 to 1910, roughly three times as long as it took Herriman to produce them. 

There are now just three cartoons left. Be here for all of ’em!

As for the cartoon above, obviously it is yet another take on the upcoming Fight of the Century. This one highlights not just Johnson’s mission to retain the title, but also taking a sidelong glance at his skin tone preference in girlfriends (who definitely did NOT need to be tied to a mast to be with him).

Herriman Saturday: June 1 1910

 

June 1 1910 — A bittersweet announcement goes with this post. As we come to June 1910 in our complete reprinting of Herriman’s LA Examiner cartoons, we have reached his final month with the paper. Yes, believe it or not, Herriman won’t be at the Examiner for the Fight of the Century on July 4. Instead he’ll be in New York starting a little strip called The Family Upstairs before the month is out, and finally carving out his exalted place in the history of newspaper cartooning.

This Stripper’s Guide series has been running since June 2 2007, believe it or not. It has taken us a decade and a half to chronicle all of Herriman’s (major) cartoons for the Examiner from 1906 to 1910, roughly three times as long as it took Herriman to produce them. 

There are now just four cartoons left. Be here for all of ’em!

Anyway, on to today’s cartoon. The big parade is to celebrate the local fight card put together for Labor Day, featuring the headline bout between Tommy Burns and Sam Langford. Leading the parade for some reason is Charles Eyton, the referee. 

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  1. I wouldn't miss 'em. But when Suzy Ying Kao was embarrassingly nabbed with a diplomatic trunkful of opium in JUN1929, Krazy Kat and Ignatz were blotto with Offissa Pupp in the SF Examiner July 11!

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Herriman Saturday: May 30 1910

 

May 30 1910 — Louis Urban has the misfortune of looking almost exactly like Daniel A. Boyd, a fellow to whom he is no relation. But he doesn’t just have the problem of occasionally being mistaken for his doppelganger, an annoyance surely. No, the problem is that Mr. Boyd is a wanted criminal with a long and impressive rap sheet. Every cop in the land has his face memorized, and each time one of the men in blue see Urban the same long and involved drama plays out. Urban gets hauled into the police station where in the best case he can convince the constabulary of his identity, but often he is held overnight in the pokey and has to plead his case in front of a judge. 

Sick and tired of this annoying, not to mention potentially dangerous, case of mistaken identity, Urban has vowed to find and arrest the criminal Boyd himself so that he can get his life back on track.

Herriman Saturday: May 30 1910

 

Oakland and Vernon played a double-header yesterday and Herriman recounts some of the sights of the day. The games were evenly divided, in both cases the winning team was highlighted by an excellent pitching performance.

Herriman Saturday: May 29 1910

 

May 29 1910 — Herriman continues blasting away at Jack Johnson, but this cartoon is a complete misfire. An attempt at illustrating the superiority of white over black falls flat because it seems to me that black ducks would have no particular trouble navigating on a white sea.

Herriman Saturday: May 28 1910

 

May 28 1910 — A new city ordinance has been passed which is intended to prohibit outdoor fires anytime except between 6 and 9 AM. Intended, yes, but that’s not quite what the ordinance text says. Rigorously interpreted, the badly written new law includes all fires, interior and exterior. Herriman, of course, gleefully delineates some of the creature comforts Angelenos will no longer be able to enjoy.

Herriman Saturday: May 28 1910

 

May 28 1910 — The local Democratic Party got together to choose candidates for county offices, and a few bits of minor drama played out — candidates who didn’t want to be, non-candidates who did want to be, you know the drill.

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