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This is a _POLLY AND HER PALS_ SUNDAY PAGE by CLIFF STERRETT. VERY FUNNY! This was cut from the original newspaper Sunday comics sections of 1944. SIZE: TABLOID FULL PAGE = 11 X 15 INCHES. PAPER: A FEW HAVE SMALL ARCHIVAL REPAIRS, OTHERWISE: EXCELLENT! ... Read More
This is a _POLLY AND HER PALS_ SUNDAY PAGE by CLIFF STERRETT. VERY FUNNY! This was cut from the original newspaper Sunday comics sections of 1944. SIZE: TABLOID FULL PAGE = 11 X 15 INCHES. PAPER: A FEW HAVE SMALL ARCHIVAL REPAIRS, OTHERWISE: EXCELLENT! BRIGHT COLORS! PULLED FROM LOOSE SECTIONS! (PLEASE CHECK SCANS) Please include $5.00 Total postage on any size order (USA) $20.00 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!
_Polly and Her Pals_
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
_
Cliff Sterrett's Polly and Her Pals_ (July 27, 1952)
_POLLY AND HER PALS_ is an American comic strip created by cartoonist Cliff Sterrett, which ran from 1912 until 1958. It is regarded as one of the most graphically innovative strips of the 20th century. It debuted as _Positive Polly_ on December 4, 1912 in William Randolph Hearst's newspapers, initially the _New York Journal_.[1][2]
Contents
[hide]
* 1Characters and story
* 2Toppers
* 2.1_Dot and Dash_
* 2.2_Belles and Wedding Bells_
* 3Influence and legacy
* 4Book editions
* 5References
* 6External links
Characters and Story[Edit]
* POLLY PERKINS - The nominal star of the strip was a pretty young girl, a flirtatious child of the Suffragette movement and a precursor of the Jazz Age 1920s flappers. Over time, the center of the action changed from Polly to those around her, and thus the title changed to _Polly and Her Pals_âthough the "pals" were in fact members of her family: her parents and cousins.
* PAW (aka SAM'L or SAMBO) PERKINS - Polly's excitable father, the main character and real star of the strip.
* MAW (aka SUZIE) PERKINS - Polly's headstrong mother was the one with common sense, who usually sided with Polly.
* ASHUR EARL PERKINS - Staying with them was their dimwitted nephew Ash, a font of bad advice.
* CARRIE - Paw's sister-in-law, a constant house guest (and irritant).
* GERTRUDE - Carrie's precocious, spoiled brat of a daughter.
* NEEWAH - The family's Japanese houseboy, who mostly did not understand what was going on (or pretended not to).
* KITTY - An ever-present black housecat, who sometimes played a comic part in the strips.
Toppers[Edit]
_Dot and Dash_[Edit]
An accompanying topper strip, also drawn by Sterrett, was created to run above _Polly_ on Sundaysâa pantomime strip called _Dot and Dash_. Originally titled _Damon and Pythias_, about the antics of a cat and dogâthey became two dogs in 1926. Highlighting Sterrett's panels were oddly stylized backgrounds (trees, houses, windows, staircases), occasionally drawn in a distorted, cubist style.
_Belles and Wedding Bells_[Edit]
_Belles and Wedding Bells_ was another topper created by Sterrett. Unlike _Dot and Dash_, _Belles_ (originally called _Sweethearts and Wives_) had dialogue, and a constantly changing cast made up of diverse romantic human couples. The strip played up the ironic contrasts between courtship and marriage. Each episode began with a scene of pre-married bliss, followed by an "intermission" panel framed with wedding bells and an ominous caption: "And then they were married..." The exact same scenario would then be re-enacted _post_-wedding by the now-jaded coupleâwith drastically different results.
Sterrett was initially the sole creator of the comic, producing both daily and Sunday strips. During the 1930s, however, Sterrett's arthritis prompted him to assign work on the daily strips to assistants Paul Fung and Vernon Greene. The daily strip ended in the 1940s. The last Sunday page, still drawn by Sterrett, was published on June 15, 1958.[1]
Influence and Legacy[Edit]
_Polly and Her Pals_ was the first of several comic strips about flirting pretty girls, including Edgar Martin's _Boots and Her Buddies_, Chic Young's _Blondie_ and _Fritzi Ritz_ (Larry Whittington's strip that later spawned _Nancy_). Although _Polly and Her Pals_ was highly influential, it was never a licensing success, and lacked the spin-off books and merchandise generated by other contemporary comic strips.[1]
The comic was not only remarkable for its creation of a new subgenre and prototype,[3] but also for its cubism-inspired graphics.[1]
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Now, Sterrettâthat's the guy who was the greatest. To think that a whole generation has grown up worshipping Picasso when the guy who did it far better was Sterrett! Far better than Picassoâand Herriman. I love Herrimanâhe has his own special place. But I love Sterrettâhe belongs someplace else...
Â
ââAl Capp, _Cartoonist PROfiles #37_, March 1978
Six full-color _Polly_ Sunday pages were prominently featured in Bill Blackbeard's _The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics_ (Abrams, 1977), representing for many modern fans their first opportunity to see the strip. It is now considered one of the masterpieces of American comic strips of the Interwar period, both for its graphic qualities and its storytelling and humor.[4] Sterrett has been lauded as one of the great innovators of the comic strip form,[2] and is one of 16 groundbreaking cartoonists featured in_America's Great Comic Strip Artists_ (1989, Abbeville Press) by comics historian Rick Marschall. When _Polly and Her Pals_ was included in the Library of Congress exhibition_Cartoon America_, it was praised for its unique graphic style,[5] and is considered to be, together with _Krazy Kat_, the epitome of the Art Deco style in comics.[6] It had considerable influence on many later cartoonists, including Jules Feiffer.[7]
Book Editions[Edit]
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Cliff Sterrett's Polly and Her Pals_ (November 30, 1924)
A monthly _Polly and Her Pals_ publication was published briefly in 1922 by Embee. _Polly and Her Pals on the Farm_ was a 1934 collection from Saalfield Publishing. The earliest _Polly_ strips were collected in 1977 by Hyperion Press (ISBN 978-0883556658), while some Sunday pages have been reprinted by Kitchen Sink Pressin 1990 (ISBN 978-0924359149, nominated for Best Domestic Reprint at the Harvey Awards[8]) and in 1991 by Remco Worldservice Books (ISBN 978-0924359156). More daily strips were reprinted by Arcadia Publications in 1990.
The French publisher _Editions de l'an 2_ continued the reprints started by Kitchen Sink and Remco in 2005 in French,[9] and this edition was nominated for the 2006 Prize for Inheritance at the Angoulême International Comics Festival.[10]
The Portuguese publisher Libri Impressi published in 2010 _Dot & Dash_ (ISBN 9789898355034), in color and restored by Manuel Caldas (mainly known for the restoration of 1937-48 Hal Foster's _Prince Valiant_), with a foreword (in English, Portuguese and spanish) by Domingos Isabelinho. It covers the entirety of the strip _Dot & Dash_, including the debut phase of Damon and Pythias.[11]
IDW Publishing's "Library of American Comics" put out an oversized, 12" x 16" full-color collection in their "Champagne Edition" size in 2010. The first volume in the series reprints almost three years of Sterrett Sunday strips, beginning with 1925 and running through 1927, along with samples from 1913 to 1924. A companion series reprinting the daily strips is also in production.[12] The first volume covers 1933 and came out in January 2013.
*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 first class or priority mail which takes 2-7 days to arrive in the usa and air mail international which takes 5 -10 days or more 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 will 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!
_Polly and Her Pals_
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
_
Cliff Sterrett's Polly and Her Pals_ (July 27, 1952)
_POLLY AND HER PALS_ is an American comic strip created by cartoonist Cliff Sterrett, which ran from 1912 until 1958. It is regarded as one of the most graphically innovative strips of the 20th century. It debuted as _Positive Polly_ on December 4, 1912 in William Randolph Hearst's newspapers, initially the _New York Journal_.[1][2]
Contents
[hide]
* 1Characters and story
* 2Toppers
* 2.1_Dot and Dash_
* 2.2_Belles and Wedding Bells_
* 3Influence and legacy
* 4Book editions
* 5References
* 6External links
Characters and Story[Edit]
* POLLY PERKINS - The nominal star of the strip was a pretty young girl, a flirtatious child of the Suffragette movement and a precursor of the Jazz Age 1920s flappers. Over time, the center of the action changed from Polly to those around her, and thus the title changed to _Polly and Her Pals_âthough the "pals" were in fact members of her family: her parents and cousins.
* PAW (aka SAM'L or SAMBO) PERKINS - Polly's excitable father, the main character and real star of the strip.
* MAW (aka SUZIE) PERKINS - Polly's headstrong mother was the one with common sense, who usually sided with Polly.
* ASHUR EARL PERKINS - Staying with them was their dimwitted nephew Ash, a font of bad advice.
* CARRIE - Paw's sister-in-law, a constant house guest (and irritant).
* GERTRUDE - Carrie's precocious, spoiled brat of a daughter.
* NEEWAH - The family's Japanese houseboy, who mostly did not understand what was going on (or pretended not to).
* KITTY - An ever-present black housecat, who sometimes played a comic part in the strips.
Toppers[Edit]
_Dot and Dash_[Edit]
An accompanying topper strip, also drawn by Sterrett, was created to run above _Polly_ on Sundaysâa pantomime strip called _Dot and Dash_. Originally titled _Damon and Pythias_, about the antics of a cat and dogâthey became two dogs in 1926. Highlighting Sterrett's panels were oddly stylized backgrounds (trees, houses, windows, staircases), occasionally drawn in a distorted, cubist style.
_Belles and Wedding Bells_[Edit]
_Belles and Wedding Bells_ was another topper created by Sterrett. Unlike _Dot and Dash_, _Belles_ (originally called _Sweethearts and Wives_) had dialogue, and a constantly changing cast made up of diverse romantic human couples. The strip played up the ironic contrasts between courtship and marriage. Each episode began with a scene of pre-married bliss, followed by an "intermission" panel framed with wedding bells and an ominous caption: "And then they were married..." The exact same scenario would then be re-enacted _post_-wedding by the now-jaded coupleâwith drastically different results.
Sterrett was initially the sole creator of the comic, producing both daily and Sunday strips. During the 1930s, however, Sterrett's arthritis prompted him to assign work on the daily strips to assistants Paul Fung and Vernon Greene. The daily strip ended in the 1940s. The last Sunday page, still drawn by Sterrett, was published on June 15, 1958.[1]
Influence and Legacy[Edit]
_Polly and Her Pals_ was the first of several comic strips about flirting pretty girls, including Edgar Martin's _Boots and Her Buddies_, Chic Young's _Blondie_ and _Fritzi Ritz_ (Larry Whittington's strip that later spawned _Nancy_). Although _Polly and Her Pals_ was highly influential, it was never a licensing success, and lacked the spin-off books and merchandise generated by other contemporary comic strips.[1]
The comic was not only remarkable for its creation of a new subgenre and prototype,[3] but also for its cubism-inspired graphics.[1]
Â
Now, Sterrettâthat's the guy who was the greatest. To think that a whole generation has grown up worshipping Picasso when the guy who did it far better was Sterrett! Far better than Picassoâand Herriman. I love Herrimanâhe has his own special place. But I love Sterrettâhe belongs someplace else...
Â
ââAl Capp, _Cartoonist PROfiles #37_, March 1978
Six full-color _Polly_ Sunday pages were prominently featured in Bill Blackbeard's _The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics_ (Abrams, 1977), representing for many modern fans their first opportunity to see the strip. It is now considered one of the masterpieces of American comic strips of the Interwar period, both for its graphic qualities and its storytelling and humor.[4] Sterrett has been lauded as one of the great innovators of the comic strip form,[2] and is one of 16 groundbreaking cartoonists featured in_America's Great Comic Strip Artists_ (1989, Abbeville Press) by comics historian Rick Marschall. When _Polly and Her Pals_ was included in the Library of Congress exhibition_Cartoon America_, it was praised for its unique graphic style,[5] and is considered to be, together with _Krazy Kat_, the epitome of the Art Deco style in comics.[6] It had considerable influence on many later cartoonists, including Jules Feiffer.[7]
Book Editions[Edit]
_
Cliff Sterrett's Polly and Her Pals_ (November 30, 1924)
A monthly _Polly and Her Pals_ publication was published briefly in 1922 by Embee. _Polly and Her Pals on the Farm_ was a 1934 collection from Saalfield Publishing. The earliest _Polly_ strips were collected in 1977 by Hyperion Press (ISBN 978-0883556658), while some Sunday pages have been reprinted by Kitchen Sink Pressin 1990 (ISBN 978-0924359149, nominated for Best Domestic Reprint at the Harvey Awards[8]) and in 1991 by Remco Worldservice Books (ISBN 978-0924359156). More daily strips were reprinted by Arcadia Publications in 1990.
The French publisher _Editions de l'an 2_ continued the reprints started by Kitchen Sink and Remco in 2005 in French,[9] and this edition was nominated for the 2006 Prize for Inheritance at the Angoulême International Comics Festival.[10]
The Portuguese publisher Libri Impressi published in 2010 _Dot & Dash_ (ISBN 9789898355034), in color and restored by Manuel Caldas (mainly known for the restoration of 1937-48 Hal Foster's _Prince Valiant_), with a foreword (in English, Portuguese and spanish) by Domingos Isabelinho. It covers the entirety of the strip _Dot & Dash_, including the debut phase of Damon and Pythias.[11]
IDW Publishing's "Library of American Comics" put out an oversized, 12" x 16" full-color collection in their "Champagne Edition" size in 2010. The first volume in the series reprints almost three years of Sterrett Sunday strips, beginning with 1925 and running through 1927, along with samples from 1913 to 1924. A companion series reprinting the daily strips is also in production.[12] The first volume covers 1933 and came out in January 2013.
*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 first class or priority mail which takes 2-7 days to arrive in the usa and air mail international which takes 5 -10 days or more 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 will 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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