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Part 4: 1935 HENRY Comic Strips by Carl Anderson

More from February 1935, the third mn0th of the Henry Daily strip by Carl Anderson. 

Part 1 

Part 2

Part 3

 

 

Paying Bills

 

Henry by Carl Anderson.

Part 3: 1935 HENRY Comic Strips by Carl Anderson

 

Here's another week of the newspaper comic strip Henry by Carl Anderson. These are the dailies from February 1st to the 7th.

Part 1 is here.

 

Part 2 is here.

 

 

Part 2: 1935 HENRY Comic Strips by Carl Anderson

 

Here's the second part of the Henry newspaper comic strip scans. The first one is here. I thought I had one or two more weeks' worth, but noooo. I have a lot more. I bought them off of eBay some years back. I had no idea I had so many.

These strips below are from the last of the month of January 1935. The strip had only just begun the month before, on December 17, 1934. Actually, it had started before that as a weekly feature in the Saturday Evening Post. Within two years after its magazine debut, William Randoph Hearst saw it and signed its creator, Carl Anderson, to a King Features syndicate contract.

Carl had reached the peak of cartooning: a syndication contract. He was, at that time, at the age of seventy. He would continue the feature, which appeared seven days a week beginning in March 1935, for its first eight years, before handing it off to two assistants. 

Caveat: These have not aged well and there is by today's standards some offensive racist imagery. It's offered as a piece of history.

The Garden As of September 1st

 The garden as of September 1st. Bushy, but getting tired. Getting towards the end of the season. The hummingbirds love those red runner bean blooms, and additionally are sucking down their sugar water from their feeder at a high rate. They usually stick around another 4-6 weeks but maybe they are leaving early this year.

 

The runner bean blooms that the hummingbirds like.

 

The last of the cucumbers is a bit deformed. But it is still tasty.

Some Early HENRY Comic Strips by Carl Anderson / January 1935

Here are some old HENRY comic strips by its original creator Carl Anderson. Mr. Anderson drew the feature for the Saturday Evening Post for a couple of years in the 1930s before it caught the attention of William Hearst.

Carl Anderson was maybe the oldest superstar cartoonist, having sold Henry to a big syndicate when he was 70 years old. And this was after a long career of freelancing and other, not-as-well-known strips and features.

The daily began life on December 17, 1934. It was popular enough to warrant a Sunday page by March. Carl Anderson drew the strip for the next eight years, but then arthritis made it too hard to continue. HENRY was given over to former assistants Don Trachte (Sundays) and John Liney (dailies). Anderson passed away in 1948.

So, here's a peek at some very early efforts. I only have a handful of dailies for January. As you will see, Henry, famous for being silent, does actually speak from time to time. Of course, this was changed. Henry is copyright King Features syndicate.

These are all I have for January 1935. I have more for the rest of the year and, if interested, I will post them here.

 

 

 

- This is a repeat of an April 13, 2017 entry.