Rabbits, Posted By Billy D Bunny, Who Else?
Blind Man's Buff, 19th century postcard.
Eugene Osswald, Fliegende Blätter, 1923. 'Flying Pages' is a good translation.
Eugene Osswald, The Animal's Ball, 1017
The Brother Bears and Other Stories by Anna Williams Arnett, 1927
Aubrey Hopwood and Seymour Hicks. The Sleepy King, 1900
Cave painting from Lascaux, c.18,000 BCE.
University of Chicago's 1908 yearbook. Signed 'Bate'.
Winter Adventure, Theodore Kittlesen. This guy rocks!
https://misterscribbles.blogspot.com/2018/12/theodor-kittlesen.html
https://misterscribbles.blogspot.com/2018/12/theodor-kittlesen.html
Diane De Groat, Little Bunny's Loose Tooth
Kladderdastch Magazine, 1924. By the Cincinnati born Arthur Johnson, a Nazi.
Krokodil, 1956. I cannot find the artist, this is presumably encouraging people to grow and/or eat vegetables. Excellent drawing.
Again with the Eugene Osswald!
Osswald.
Frank A. Nankivell, from A Book of Fairy-Tale Foxes by Clifton Johnson. 1914
Ha ha! Krokodil, 1956. Artist unknown.
Judge Magazine, 1918. Bugs was not the first.
El-ahrairah, Rachel Johannes Calder
Another from the Russian humor magazine Krokodil, pronounced Crocodile,
1956. These drawings I have selected are free of any taint of Soviet
Realism that screwed up so much Russian art. This is a cartoonist of
genius, excellent work.
очень хорошо, товарищи.
очень хорошо, товарищи.
Kladderdatsch, 1937. Looks like Arthur Johnson, Konfituren comes up as
'marmalades' or 'jams' on my translator, this is an anti-capitalist
cartoon whatever it says.
Judge, 1901, Gus Dirks. Judge was a competitor to Puck.
E. B. Kemble. Judge, 1912
Arthur Thiele
A Playful Rabbit Illustration.
Mr. Rabbit At Home by Joel Chandler Harris. The artist is Oliver Herford.
T. S. Sullivant
From that work of exceptional genius The Beast Is Dead, Edmond- Francois Calvo and Victor Dancette. French Rabbits, German Wolves.
Calvo.
Benjamin Rabier.
"It was a hunter who did this"!
Rabier. A household name in France, I just heard of this guy. Considered the inventor of funny animal comics.
Br'er Rabbit, Splash Mountain Signpost, Disney.
Br'er Rabbit, by Henry Charles (wait for it - )...Fox!
Thomas Starling Sullivant, once the premier cartoonist of the magazine world, barely remembered today. His hippos were used as the model for 'The Dance of the Hours' segment of Fantasia, the elephants in Dumbo, the walrus in 'Alice in Wonderland'. No credit given by Disney, of course, no more than Heinrich Kley got credit for his alligators used in Fantasia.
T. S. Sullivant
An article in London newspaper The Daily Telegraph about
the first images from the European Space Agency's orbiting Planck
observatory ended with -
'The telescope is looking at the heat left behind by the big bang. It is a job comparable to measuring the body heat of a rabbit sitting on the moon.
Well!
'Peter Abrahams is frustrated by the lack of clarity of this statement and wants to see what he calls the lunalapin 'defined more precisely with regard to the size of the rabbit, the color of the rabbit, and whether it is in sunlight or shade'. Only then is he prepared to decide 'if 1 lunalapin is an accurate measure of the sensitivity of the observatory.' Thus science divides truth from nonsense. Here are the unquestioned facts, and not the ravings of some lunatic. The vital statistics of the rabbit on the moon are -
Weight, 3 lb (1.4 kg) length, 16 in. (41 cm) Fur color, grayish brown on top and white underneath. Habitat, both sun and shade. Moonrabbits constantly pound rice in a mortar, it is presumed that this is what they eat.
Here at Mister Scribbles our job is to know these things. We are, of course, the world's go to source of all things lagomorphically improbable. It's what we do. It's all we do!
'The telescope is looking at the heat left behind by the big bang. It is a job comparable to measuring the body heat of a rabbit sitting on the moon.
Well!
'Peter Abrahams is frustrated by the lack of clarity of this statement and wants to see what he calls the lunalapin 'defined more precisely with regard to the size of the rabbit, the color of the rabbit, and whether it is in sunlight or shade'. Only then is he prepared to decide 'if 1 lunalapin is an accurate measure of the sensitivity of the observatory.' Thus science divides truth from nonsense. Here are the unquestioned facts, and not the ravings of some lunatic. The vital statistics of the rabbit on the moon are -
Weight, 3 lb (1.4 kg) length, 16 in. (41 cm) Fur color, grayish brown on top and white underneath. Habitat, both sun and shade. Moonrabbits constantly pound rice in a mortar, it is presumed that this is what they eat.
Here at Mister Scribbles our job is to know these things. We are, of course, the world's go to source of all things lagomorphically improbable. It's what we do. It's all we do!
Banished! But maybe someday, and soon...
Moonrabbits are always trouble.
Osswald puts me in mind of yet another Funny Rabbit -- one that Unca Walt and his brother Roy worked on before they shortened the character's ears and they made off with the goods.
ReplyDeleteLittle Rabbit's Loose Tooth seems to have multiple covers. The Judge-mental Rabbit reminds me of one of my own characters. Ridgerunner doesn't care for Humans, and the feeling becomes mutual.
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DeleteP.S. Gus Dirks was Rudolf Dirks' younger brother, and helped out with The Katzenjammer Kids along with his own strip Bugville until he committed suicide at the age of 23. His symptoms sound like depression, but of course little depth about his life yet remains. Of course Unca Walt stole his work, post mortem.
DeleteDisney produced Oswald for Universal pictures, and lost control when Charles Mintz cut the money for the cartoons way back, and Walt rode back on the train from NYC in despair. The story is that Ub Iwerks came up with Mickey, Walt took credit his entire life. If true that was a very small thing for someone as big as Disney to do to his best partner he would ever have. Oswald limped on but was defunct after Steamboat Willie. His 1950's incarnation looks nothing like him. Disney has him back now.
DeleteDirks looked like he had it all in front of him. A shame.
A very impressive array of rabbits -- Great stuff!
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