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Sidney Smith - The Gumps - 10-26-34

Artist: Sidney Smith (Penciller)

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Sidney Smith - The Gumps - 10-26-34 Comic Art

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Title:	Sidney Smith - The Gumps - 10-26-34
Artist:	Sidney Smith (Penciller)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	149
Likes on CAF:	0 1
Comments:	3
Added to Site:	1/9/2022
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I confess to not knowing very much about The Gumps, one of those strips that seems to have been immensely popular and long-running, and still well known among comic strip aficionados, but which has left little direct imprint on the culture, Andy Gump's tag line "Oh Min!" would elicit blank stares today (though isn't an "Andy Gump" a kind of portable toilet? Maybe not the most enviable cultural imprint, but still something I guess). But anyway, still an important newspaper strip in its day. This is a pretty marginal example, I suppose, without the central characters: I have no idea who this character is or what's going on here. One thing that seems typical is that it was a very dialogue heavy strip. And of course it displays that classic "big foot" style (though no feet are to be seen), and the wonderful loose brush-stroke shading that Smith spatters here and there to fill up blank spaces. My favorite detail: the little caption "Bills" with an arrow that tells the reader what that inconspicuous pile of papers in panel 2 represents.

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	Dan Mazur
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Ted Latner
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 1/9/2022

The Gumps was a great strip which was incredibly popular, but sadly mostly forgotten now. Sidney Smith was killed in a car crash in 1935 after signing a record breaking contract -- 150K / year, which was a huge amount at that time!

Dan Mazur
Member Since 2020

1 - Posted on 1/10/2022

Ted Latner wrote:

I didn't know that -- sad! Thanks for the information.

Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 1/9/2022

The humor gets lost in time, but his is a rare comics artifact from the depression era where cheer was in short supply and people looked for escape from the daily grind.

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