Clare Victor Dwiggins
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/dwiggins_cv.htm
[One of his most memorable creation was 'School Days', a Sunday strip that appeared in the early 1910s. As the title suggests, it depicted the life of schoolkids, and was drawn with a Victorian atmosphere. Evolving from a one-panel strip into a continuing story, the strip ran until 1932.]
[By 1918 Dwig created the Sunday comic 'Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn', which was loosely based on the classic book by Mark Twain. For the Ledger Syndicate, Dwig created 'Nipper', which appeared from 1931 to 1937. Starting in 1940, he returned to 'Huckleberry Finn', this time published in Doc Savage Comics and Supersnipe Comics. In the latter comic book, he also drew 'Bobby Crusoe' in 1945. That same year, he left comics and focused on illustration. He has published five books with August Derleth until his death in 1958.]
Actually this anachaic stuff has a very modern 'British strip' feel to it. 'Orphelia' could be a punk.
By The Australian Panther
Also this
Dead Cats at Moonlight – The Art of Clare Victor “Dwig” Dwiggins.
https://www.tcj.com/dead-cats-at-moonlight-the-art-of-clare-victor-dwiggins/
['One of the prime -- and perhaps widest -- tributaries into screwball comics is the "wild child" concept. Without works like Wilhelm Busch's Max Und Moritz (1865) and Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn (1884), there might not be Harvey Kurtzman's Mad as we know it. Creators like Richard Outcault (The Yellow Kid, Kelly's Kindergarten) and Rudolph Dirks (The Katzenjammer Kids) are well known and documented. A few years after Dirk’s irks and Outcault’s jolts, we encounter the madcap School Days (1909 and 1912) the graceful, nostalgic, and slightly erotic re-imagining of the wild child comic by the free-spirited master who called himself "Dwig."]
['Like Outcault's "Kelly" comics, Dwig's half-pages foreshadow Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder's best work with Mad and Goodman Beaver. There are so many details and gags. It's all combined organically into a tour de force of manic energy and chaos.']
Cheers!
And it goes without saying, thank you Lyons!
By The Australian Panther
The complete one page 'Schooldays' can be found here on INTERNET ARCHIVE.
https://archive.org/details/schooldays00dwig
Can some kind person download and convert it?
Thanking you in advance
By lyons
Hi Panther - The 'School Days' you mention in your comment is in the Cartoon Books section.
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