Harry Tuthill - The Bungle Family - 1926

A beautiful and funny page, a piece of history from almost 100 years ago. An ink over graphite on Bristol board hand-colored sunday comic strip dated 10-10-26 (McNaught Syndicate, 1926) by Harry Tuthill.

In 1918, Tuthill launched Home Sweet Home, a strip about apartment life, in the New York Evening Mail. During the six-year run, it introduced George and Josephine Bungle, and he retitled it as The Bungle Family in 1924. Distributed initially by the McClure Syndicate and later by the McNaught Syndicate, the strip was carried by 120 newspapers.

Comics historian Rick Marschall praised Tuthill's work, "Seldom has there been a strip (Moon Mullins comes to mind) registering a sustained, masterful indictment of petite-bourgeois sensibilities and preoccupations as did The Bungle Family.