Now Listen, Mabel Strips
Here are the next six “Now Listen, Mabel” dailies from the pen and knife of George Herriman, 9-11 to 9-17-1919. 9-11 through 9-13 introduce Mabel’s dog “Tizwin” who barks at Jimmie accidentally through Mabel’s telephone. When Jimmie tells Mabel that Tizwin sounds just like Mabel over the telephone, she gets irritated and walks out on him. Mabel tosses the insult back at Jimmie in the 9-13. In the 9-15 through 9-17 strips, Jimmie keeps trying to talk to Mabel on the office telephone much to the disgust of his boss. In the 9-17 strip, Jimmie is introduced to Mr. Gindus (where is Garge getting these character names?), who seems to be another supervisor. Gindus intercepts a call to Jimmie from Mabel, but Jimmie handily steps on Gindus’s head, saving his bacon with Mabel.
I still need advice on making these strips clickable in Word Press. I tried using Classic Editor and Block Editor to edit the pictures, and tried various sizes and uploads. None of that worked, you now have to use your mouse to make the images appear in another window, where you CAN make them bigger. If anyone can help me figure this out, I would be very appreciative. Thanks for reading!
Charles Brubaker says:
(hope this goes through)
Loving these comics! Thanks for sharing!
Hopefully there’s a workaround for image size. I had trouble with that sometimes when I did “Fuzzy” (I used wordpress to host the comic). If I figure something out, I’ll let you know!
Mark says:
Thanks Charles! Your message got through this time. WordPress can be tough (sounds like Munro Leaf, sideways). Any technical tips on WordPress from you would be greatly appreciated.
Mark
Paul Groh says:
Gindus is a Jewish surname, with several alternative spellings. Tizwin is an alcoholic beverage traditionally made by the Apache people from corn and the fruit of the saguaro cactus; one of the reasons Geronimo kept breaking out of the reservations was that he couldn’t get tizwin there. Doozinberry appears to be an anglicisation of the German surname Duesenberg. Mabel was a trendy, stereotypical flapper name; the pretty girls in Chaplin comedies always seem to be named Mabel. I suspect that it may have caught on at least in part because of the heroine Mabel in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta “The Pirates of Penzance”.
I don’t have any trouble reading the text in these comic strips, I just take my glasses off and get up close to the screen. Fortunately my extreme myopia has hindered the development of farsightedness as I grow older.
Mark says:
Thanks for all the background on the names Herriman used in “Now Listen, Mabel”, Paul. I am extremely nearsighted too, mostly due to cataracts and Macular De.