Special Post to “Yowp”
If you click on the link to Yowp’s blog on the right hand side of the screen, you will see that the cartoon dog has posted the September, 1961 Yogi Bear Sunday comic strips, all drawn by Harvey Eisenberg. His scans lack color and the top tier, since these were all originally half-page strips. I delved into the old clipping files and came up with the same strips, clipped from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch fifty years ago. They were published on Sept. 3rd, 10th, 17th and 24th, 1961. Please click on the thumbnails above to see them at larger sizes. Please excuse the slightly mismatched halves of the strips. These were pretty large, so I had to scan them in two parts and piece them together, sometimes I don’t get it perfect. The strip from 9-24 with Augie Doggie has some masking tape stains in the 5th panel. That’s a good tip for all you strip collectors, don’t repair your strips with highly acid tapes like Scotch cellophane or masking tape, they will discolor the material they are holding together. If you like the early Hanna-Barbera characters, you will enjoy Yowp’s blog. Yowp has some good background comments on these strips, so go over there and read them. If any visitors from Yowp’s blog are reading this, stick around! Go through the archives and enjoy some old strips, as well as some articles on animated cartoons of the past. I hope to be back soon with a “regular” post.
Yowp says:
Harvey has drawn the world’s biggest mice (next to Mickey, I suppose) in the birthday cartoon. I still think it’s odd that Yakky isn’t there, considering he was on Yogi’s show.
What do you suggest other than Scotch tape? I had maybe ten years of Peanuts comics (daily and weekend) I cut out of the paper and glued into scrapbooks. The torn ones were taped together and ended up with a brown strip where the tape was.
Mark says:
Hi Yowp,
Pixie and Dixie do look a bit oversize in the 9-17. It’s too late now, of course, but the best way to save the Peanuts strips would have been to paste the torn ones carefully into the scrapbook without any tape on them. The best glue to use is Elmer’s white glue, never rubber cement, which discolors the strips even worse than cellophane or masking tape. I started out gluing strips into scrapbooks, then, just cut them out of the paper and stacked them chonologically. I ended up just saving the entire Sunday supplements, that’s proved to be the best way to collect newspaper strips.
Kirk says:
There are archival, acid free artist’s tapes available at most decent art supply stores, and photo corners to boot. C’mon fellahs!