Love obscure discoveries. Very nice art but sure would not make it as a modern strip. That much reading would be passed right over.
By The Australian Panther
I love it when I'm right! I looked at this and thought - the figures look like those in Mutt and Jeff.
They sure do.
Asthma Simpson the Village Queen
https://john-adcock.blogspot.com/2011/01/asthma-simpson-village-queen.html
The artist called himself 'Billy Liverpool'
But he was Myer Marcus.
Myer Marcus
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/marcus_myer.htm
And on the site above we read,
Hired by Bud Fisher to ghost Mutt and Jeff for over fifteen years, up to 1934.
The Lambiek site has a link to 'Strippers Guide' where the original research was done.
I'm pretty sure we have other work by Myer Marcus on CB+ Check the Lambiek article for a - fairly substantial - list of his works.
Also, its likely that in the newspapers of the day, the Strip was printed at least twice as large as we have it here. Would have been a lot easier to read.
Cheers!
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