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I had good response in this thread a few months back when I posted my Ewer Puck page. The same source turned up another Puck original--this Leighton Budd piece from 1905.

 

 

 

Here is a Budd cartoon from 1907.

 

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I have hundreds of Puck magazines. Many of the earliest newspaper cartoonists had work published in Puck and the other humor magazines of that era.

 

From Wikipedia:

 

Puck was America's first successful humor magazine of colorful cartoon caricatures and political satire of the issues of the day. It was published from 1871 until 1918.

 

The weekly magazine was founded by Joseph Ferdinand Keppler in St. Louis. It began publishing English and German language editions in March, 1871. Five years later, the German edition of Puck moved to New York City, where the first magazine was published on September 27, 1876. The English edition soon followed, on March 14, 1877.

 

The English magazine continued in operation for more than forty years under several owners and editors until it was bought by the William Randolph Hearst company in 1916. The publication lasted two more years; the final edition was distributed September 5, 1918. Typical 32-page issues contained a full-color political cartoon on the front cover and a color non-political cartoon or comic-strip on the back cover. There was always a double-page color centerfold, usually on a political topic. There were numerous black-and-white cartoons used to illustrate humorous anecdotes. A page of editorials commented on the issues of the day, and the last few pages were devoted to advertisements.

 

 

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[nearmint]

Love the coloring on those.

[Weird Paper]

Those are extraordinarily cool, BZ!

[ciorac]

Here is a nice original Sheldon Moldoff piece, that I own, from when he was a mere lad of 14 years of age. It is dated November 21st 1934. I think it is very cool to see his fledgling attempts at comic art

 

[Bat-Man]

Here is a nice original Sheldon Moldoff piece, that I own, from when he was a mere lad of 14 years of age. It is dated November 21st 1934. I think it is very cool to see his fledgling attempts at comic art

 

 

 

That is a fantastic piece! Wow!

[sacentaur]

Here is a nice original Sheldon Moldoff piece, that I own, from when he was a mere lad of 14 years of age. It is dated November 21st 1934. I think it is very cool to see his fledgling attempts at comic art

 

 

Bill, I love it!

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That's so cool, Bill.

 

Just last night I was reading an interview with Moldoff that appeared in Alter Ego, so it's especially neat to see that drawing today.

 

[ciorac]

Thanks guys, I'm pretty fond of it too. I miss seeing Shelly at shows, and when I call him he is hard to reach. I know he's 90, but he is one of the last of his generation of comic creators. I truly hate to see the golden age come to an end.

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Love the coloring on those.

 

They were lithographic prints. (thumbs u

[Bat-Man]

Thanks guys, I'm pretty fond of it too. I miss seeing Shelly at shows, and when I call him he is hard to reach. I know he's 90, but he is one of the last of his generation of comic creators. I truly hate to see the golden age come to an end.

 

 

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I know the political references are now well obscured, but I am pretty sure Miss Liberty has always held the torch in her right hand.

 

Is there anything left to collect, BZ? What are you still passionate about?

[NewtSamson]

Love the coloring on those.

 

The process back then to color those was very complicated.

Puck Magazine at one point had "the world's largest lithographic pressworks under a single roof".

Here from wikipedia is a discription of the complicated process to color those images (I collect Puck Magazines too by the way):

"The process of chromolithography is chemical, because an image is applied to a stone or zinc plate with a grease-based crayon. (Limestone and zinc are two commonly-used materials in the production of chromolithographs.) After the image is drawn onto stone, the stone is gummed with gum arabic solution and weak nitric acid, and then inked with oil-based paints and passed through a printing press along with a sheet of paper to transfer the image to the paper. Colors may be added to the print by drawing the area to receive the color on a different stone, and printing the new color onto the paper. Each color in the image must be separately drawn onto a new stone or plate and applied to the paper one at a time. It was not unusual for twenty to twenty-five stones to be used on a single image.[4] Each sheet of paper will therefore pass through the printing press as many times as there are colors in the final print. In order that each color is placed in the right position in each print, each stone or plate must be precisely ‘registered,’ or lined up, on the paper using a system of register marks."