May 12, 2009
Early Comics & Cetera
A website about picture stories and appertaining topics.
Some really early comics like Doctor Syntax (not a comic) are most bizarre.
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Dr. Syntax is my favorite, so far. Also liked Miss Lavinia. Too many to digest all at once, but really nice post.
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Good stuff. I came across Dr Syntax for the first time a while ago while visiting Whitehall (not that one, in Cheam, England) where they have a number of Syntax prints.
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Poor Syntax! But Rowlandson's VISUAL SYNTAX is sumptuous.
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Doctor Syntax is awesome. There are too many for me to even start to look through, so I took a peak a the one tellurian highlighted. Very enjoyable. However, in one of the very first panels, "stopped" is spelled (or should I say "spellt?") as "stoppt." Was that ever considered to be proper spelling? Does anyone know? Or are we going to have to throw up the (language)Hat Signal?
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Was that ever considered to be proper spelling? It is archaic. Roosevelt wanted to introduce it in 1906 but Webster's Dictionary said nay.
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These are great! The Progress of Mr. Lambkin is a most heartwarming tale of debauchery and redemption.
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In those days, yew coud spel anie damm waie yoo lyked.
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since feeling is first since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry —the best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids' flutter which says we are for each other: then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis --e.e. cummings speaking of debauchery and redemption