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Cap Stubbs and Tippie strips (Dec 2-4, 1958): The Lost Child

Artist: Edwina Dumm (All)

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Cap Stubbs and Tippie strips (Dec 2-4, 1958): The Lost Child Comic Art

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Title:	Cap Stubbs and Tippie strips (Dec 2-4, 1958): The Lost Child
Artist:	Edwina Dumm (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Comic Strip
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	1,124
Likes on CAF:	1 2
Comments:	2
Added to Site:	10/12/2023
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Description

Frances Edwina Dumm was America's first full-time female editorial cartoonist and the first woman inducted into the National Cartoonists Society. Her political cartoons promoted Women's Suffrage when that was a controversial issue. For almost fifty years (1918-1966) she produced this strip about "child and dog", joining the likes of Buster Brown, Little Orphan Annie, and Tintin (and much later, Johnny Quest).

Here are three consecutive daily strips in which Cap, Tippie, and Cap's grandmother Sara Bailey help a lost girl find her way home. Presumably they succeed in the final strips of the week. These are marked "Dec 2: Well, This is a Predicament"; "Dec 3: It Would Seem So!" and "Dec 4: Yes - Go Ahead!" There are also circled numbers 2,3, and 4 respectively which represent not the date but rather the placement of this strip within the six strips published each week.

The copyright notice gives no year of publication, but all three strips on the back have a handwritten "Wk 12-1-58" which probably refers to the first week in December 1958. This makes sense, because December 2, 1958 was a Tuesday, and the December 2 strip here is the second strip in this story, which would have begun with the December 1 strip on Monday.

Unlike many strip artists, Dumm uses panels of varying size both within a single strip as well as from one day to the next. The structure is more serial rather than the bump-set-spike of a three panel gag. Dumm has a distinctive font and uses a lower grade school vocabulary to entice young readers. I'm impressed by the dramatic change in font size and thickness for emphasis on certain words in the Dec 3 and 4 strips.

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Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 10/12/2023

The first strip wins you over with the cute dogs images. The crying kid is moves you and makes you really want to fund out what happens.

Shelton Bryant
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 10/12/2023

Cool Strip...Luv the quirky and Sketchy style!!!

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