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Oaky Doaks Sunday Page by RB Fuller from 1/9/1944 Tabloid Page Size!
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Condition:Paper: some light tanning, otherwise: Excellent! Bright Colors! Pulled from loose sections! (Please Check Scans) This is a _OAKY DOAKS_ SUNDAY PAGE by RB FULLER. FANTASTIC FANTASY STORIES AND BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK! This was cut from the original n ... Read More
Condition:Paper: some light tanning, otherwise: Excellent! Bright Colors! Pulled from loose sections! (Please Check Scans)
This is a _OAKY DOAKS_ SUNDAY PAGE by RB FULLER. FANTASTIC FANTASY STORIES AND BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK! This was cut from the original newspaper Sunday comics section of 1944. SIZE: ~11 X 15 INCHES (TABLOID FULL PAGE) PAPER: SOME LIGHT TANNING, LIGHT WEAR, OTHERWISE: EXCELLENT! BRIGHT COLORS! PULLED FROM LOOSE SECTIONS! (PLEASE CHECK SCANS) Please include $5.00 Total postage on any size order (USA) $16.00 International FLAT RATE. I combine postage on multiple pages. Check out my other auctions for more great vintage Comic strips and Paper Dolls. THANKS FOR LOOKING!
Ralph Fuller
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
RALPH BRIGGS FULLER (March 9, 1890 - August 16, 1963) was an American cartoonist best known for his long running comic strip _Oaky Doaks_, featuring the humorous adventures of a good-hearted knight in the Middle Ages. He signed the strips RB. FULLER.[1]
Born in Capac, Michigan,[2] Fuller was the oldest child of six children born to Louise and Arthur Fuller. The Fuller family lived in Richmond, Michigan, where his father was a druggist. He was 16 when he sold his first cartoon to _Life_ for $8. In the following mail, he received a letter from _Life_ requesting the return of the $8 because they had previously used that gag. He did send back the $8. However, he soon sold _Life_ another cartoon and followed with contributions to the _New York World'_s _Fun_ supplement in 1910.[1][3]
Fuller studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and went to work as a staff artist for the _Chicago Daily News_. While he was at the _Daily News_, he received $100 for the first color picture ever published by _Life_. That triggered a desire to work in magazine illustration, and he moved to New York, where he lived at 17 Livingston Street. After a 1914 trip to England, Fuller and his wife Alexa lived at 217 East 16th Street in Brooklyn. By 1920, the couple and their children Robert and Elizabeth were living at 170 Ames Avenue in Leonia, New Jersey.
For years he contributed cartoons to _Puck_, _Judge_, _Collier's_, _Harper's_, _Liberty_, _Ballyhoo_, _College Humor_ and _The New Yorker_. He had his own feature, _Fuller Humor_, in _Judge_ during the 1920s. With the collapse of _Judge_ and other humor magazines, Fuller's freelance markets were diminishing, so he considered doing a comic strip. AP Newsfeatures offered him a detective strip, but Fuller wanted to take a humorous approach.[1][4]
_Oaky Doaks_[Edit]
In 1935, Fuller had a syndicate offer to take over a top humor strip because it was believed the creator was planning to leave. However, Fuller had a tough decision to make, since AP News features was auditioning several artists to draw _Oaky Doaks_, scripted by the syndicate's comics editor, Bill McCleery. Fuller recalled that AP handed him several pages of _Oaky Doaks_ script to look over. He walked to the Roosevelt Hotel, where he sat in the lobby reading the script. When he finished, he had made his decision; he saw the comic possibilities of _Oaky Doaks_, and he also would have the opportunity to do a strip displaying his name as the artist.[1]
_Oaky Doaks_ was launched on June 17, 1935, many months before the start of _Prince Valiant_. For two years, Fuller and McCleery collaborated (with no credit given to McCleery as scripter). Fuller eventually took over the writing as well as the art, along with other writing by M. J. Wing.[3][5]
The _Oaky Doaks_ Sunday strip, which began in 1941, was initially drawn by Bill Dyer (who also worked on _The Adventures of Patsy_) and later by Fuller. Oaky Doaks visited Camelot in the 1940s, but he later went to the Kingdom of Uncertainia, where he remained until the strip ended in 1961.
Fuller was also an accomplished watercolorist and a member of the Leonia, New Jersey art colony.[6] He drew _Oaky Doaks_ from his home in Tenafly, New Jersey, where his studio, painted light green and curtained in gold, overlooked his back lawn. In 1950, he reflected:
I liked a sequence when Oaky was captured by the Vikings. They got over to the American Coast and got mixed up with the Indians. That gave me Vikings, and Indians as well as knighthood to burlesque. I just finished a Sunday sequence where there was a combination of pirates and Indians and buried gold, shipwrecks, cast-ashore-on-a-desert-island and anything a kid would want in a feature. I was sorry when I had to quit it. I think every man has a little of the knight in him... I think a situation is funnier than a gag—but if you get both, it's really fine. Maybe I'm trying to burlesque the serious adventure strips, I don't know.[1]
_Oaky Doaks_ came to an end when the comics division of AP Newsfeatures folded in 1961.
A resident of Tenafly, New Jersey, Fuller died two years later in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, where he had a summer home.[7]
Today, _Oaky Doaks_ can be read at Steve Cottle's I Love Comix Archive, which features various runs of the strip from 1937 to 1948.
*please note: collecting and selling comics has been my hobby for over 30 years. Due to the hours of my job i can usually only mail packages out on saturdays. I send out priority mail which takes 2-3 days to arrive in the usa and air mail international which takes 5 -10 days depending on where you live in the world. I do not "sell" postage or packaging and charge less than the actual cost of mailing. I package items securely and wrap well. Most pages come in an archival sleeve with acid free backing board at no extra charge. If you are dissatisfied with an item. Let me know and i wil do my best to make it right.
Many thanks to all of my 1,000's of past customers around the world.
enjoy your hobby everyone and have fun collecting!
This is a _OAKY DOAKS_ SUNDAY PAGE by RB FULLER. FANTASTIC FANTASY STORIES AND BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK! This was cut from the original newspaper Sunday comics section of 1944. SIZE: ~11 X 15 INCHES (TABLOID FULL PAGE) PAPER: SOME LIGHT TANNING, LIGHT WEAR, OTHERWISE: EXCELLENT! BRIGHT COLORS! PULLED FROM LOOSE SECTIONS! (PLEASE CHECK SCANS) Please include $5.00 Total postage on any size order (USA) $16.00 International FLAT RATE. I combine postage on multiple pages. Check out my other auctions for more great vintage Comic strips and Paper Dolls. THANKS FOR LOOKING!
Ralph Fuller
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
RALPH BRIGGS FULLER (March 9, 1890 - August 16, 1963) was an American cartoonist best known for his long running comic strip _Oaky Doaks_, featuring the humorous adventures of a good-hearted knight in the Middle Ages. He signed the strips RB. FULLER.[1]
Born in Capac, Michigan,[2] Fuller was the oldest child of six children born to Louise and Arthur Fuller. The Fuller family lived in Richmond, Michigan, where his father was a druggist. He was 16 when he sold his first cartoon to _Life_ for $8. In the following mail, he received a letter from _Life_ requesting the return of the $8 because they had previously used that gag. He did send back the $8. However, he soon sold _Life_ another cartoon and followed with contributions to the _New York World'_s _Fun_ supplement in 1910.[1][3]
Fuller studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and went to work as a staff artist for the _Chicago Daily News_. While he was at the _Daily News_, he received $100 for the first color picture ever published by _Life_. That triggered a desire to work in magazine illustration, and he moved to New York, where he lived at 17 Livingston Street. After a 1914 trip to England, Fuller and his wife Alexa lived at 217 East 16th Street in Brooklyn. By 1920, the couple and their children Robert and Elizabeth were living at 170 Ames Avenue in Leonia, New Jersey.
For years he contributed cartoons to _Puck_, _Judge_, _Collier's_, _Harper's_, _Liberty_, _Ballyhoo_, _College Humor_ and _The New Yorker_. He had his own feature, _Fuller Humor_, in _Judge_ during the 1920s. With the collapse of _Judge_ and other humor magazines, Fuller's freelance markets were diminishing, so he considered doing a comic strip. AP Newsfeatures offered him a detective strip, but Fuller wanted to take a humorous approach.[1][4]
_Oaky Doaks_[Edit]
In 1935, Fuller had a syndicate offer to take over a top humor strip because it was believed the creator was planning to leave. However, Fuller had a tough decision to make, since AP News features was auditioning several artists to draw _Oaky Doaks_, scripted by the syndicate's comics editor, Bill McCleery. Fuller recalled that AP handed him several pages of _Oaky Doaks_ script to look over. He walked to the Roosevelt Hotel, where he sat in the lobby reading the script. When he finished, he had made his decision; he saw the comic possibilities of _Oaky Doaks_, and he also would have the opportunity to do a strip displaying his name as the artist.[1]
_Oaky Doaks_ was launched on June 17, 1935, many months before the start of _Prince Valiant_. For two years, Fuller and McCleery collaborated (with no credit given to McCleery as scripter). Fuller eventually took over the writing as well as the art, along with other writing by M. J. Wing.[3][5]
The _Oaky Doaks_ Sunday strip, which began in 1941, was initially drawn by Bill Dyer (who also worked on _The Adventures of Patsy_) and later by Fuller. Oaky Doaks visited Camelot in the 1940s, but he later went to the Kingdom of Uncertainia, where he remained until the strip ended in 1961.
Fuller was also an accomplished watercolorist and a member of the Leonia, New Jersey art colony.[6] He drew _Oaky Doaks_ from his home in Tenafly, New Jersey, where his studio, painted light green and curtained in gold, overlooked his back lawn. In 1950, he reflected:
I liked a sequence when Oaky was captured by the Vikings. They got over to the American Coast and got mixed up with the Indians. That gave me Vikings, and Indians as well as knighthood to burlesque. I just finished a Sunday sequence where there was a combination of pirates and Indians and buried gold, shipwrecks, cast-ashore-on-a-desert-island and anything a kid would want in a feature. I was sorry when I had to quit it. I think every man has a little of the knight in him... I think a situation is funnier than a gag—but if you get both, it's really fine. Maybe I'm trying to burlesque the serious adventure strips, I don't know.[1]
_Oaky Doaks_ came to an end when the comics division of AP Newsfeatures folded in 1961.
A resident of Tenafly, New Jersey, Fuller died two years later in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, where he had a summer home.[7]
Today, _Oaky Doaks_ can be read at Steve Cottle's I Love Comix Archive, which features various runs of the strip from 1937 to 1948.
*please note: collecting and selling comics has been my hobby for over 30 years. Due to the hours of my job i can usually only mail packages out on saturdays. I send out priority mail which takes 2-3 days to arrive in the usa and air mail international which takes 5 -10 days depending on where you live in the world. I do not "sell" postage or packaging and charge less than the actual cost of mailing. I package items securely and wrap well. Most pages come in an archival sleeve with acid free backing board at no extra charge. If you are dissatisfied with an item. Let me know and i wil do my best to make it right.
Many thanks to all of my 1,000's of past customers around the world.
enjoy your hobby everyone and have fun collecting!
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