My readthrough of Fontaine Fox's Toonerville cartoons brought me to 1921 and an odd bit of branching out: The Goose Crick Steamboat auditioning for the cavalcade of comedy public transport.
Historical spoiler: the Toonerville stamp only had a trolley. At some point, the steamboat got dry-docked.
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Percy Crosby invites the roaring 1920s to touch grass.
(cover of Life, May 7, 1925)
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Fontaine Fox, March 23, 1921
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October 5, 1923: Clare Briggs wonders what the man in the between-the-wars hat ads is thinking about.
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Fontaine Fox, November 24, 1920
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Dok's Dippy Duck for July 26-28, 1923: The One Before Harding Pops His Clogs.
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Dok's Dippy Duck - July 23-25, 1923. The last block of these before President Harding makes it to #Seattle...barely.
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Fontaine Fox, December 1, 1920
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More 1923 Seattle duck sauce. President Harding's on the way! What could possibly go wrong? #NoSpoilersPlease
Dok's Dippy Duck - July 19-21, 1923
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And now, back to the dazzing world of west-coast based, between-the-wars cartoon ducks.
(Dok's Dippy Duck, July 16-18, 1923)
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Carl Anderson for Life Magazine, February 19, 1925.
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I'll take "centuries-old themes we haven't completely aged out of" for $100, Ken.
(Fred G Cooper spot illustration for Life Magazine, 10 February, 1927)
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Jack Farr in Life Magazine, 20 January 1927.
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