A couple months back I was perusing online auction sites for animation paraphernalia (As you do when you’re bored) and came across this magnificent specimen:
A framed page from the July 21, 1907 Los Angeles Sunday Times. This page shows just how much real estate a Winsor McCay comic took up during its original run.
Unfortunately, it was not packed well and the frame was cracked in its delivery from California to Indiana. It is what it is, I wasn’t going to return it, even though I will have to find a framer to reframe this century+ old newspaper page contained within. Regardless, I had never seen an original Winsor McCay comic prior to this.
The original comic, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, is as follows:
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