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Art Huhta - Mescal Ike - 1937 Daily

Artist: Art Huhta (All)

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Art Huhta - Mescal Ike - 1937 Daily Comic Art

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Title:	Art Huhta - Mescal Ike - 1937 Daily
Artist:	Art Huhta (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Comic Strip
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	2,546
Likes on CAF:	0 1
Favorited on CAF:	1
Comments:	2
Added to Site:	9/13/2012
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Mescal Ike was a little known daily strip which ran for 14 years, from 1926 to 1940. Art Huhta, a cartoonist with some terrific skills, handled the drawing chores, while S.L. Huntley wrote the dialogue. When Mescal Ike was at its end, Huhta began drawing the strip that he's most well known, Dinky Dinkerton, a Sherlock Holmes spoof strip.

This example of Mescal Ike, dated May 3, 1937, is the only original I've ever run across from the strip. It features some wonderfully rich and animated drawing, especially in the panels where the horse is in and out of the picture plane.

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glen gold
Member Since 2004

1 - Posted on 9/14/2012

I'm surprised this strip didn't suffer the same censorship as the short-lived "Peyote Pete."

Kevin Warzecha
Member Since 2006

1 - Posted on 9/27/2012

Mescal Ike increasing becomes a favorite character of mine. Peyote Pete, Coke Bloke, Weed Sneed, Beth Meth... what a fine group!

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