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!
Link to the book:
School Days
