Hassan Cigarette Pinback - George Herriman "Spotted"

Description: This button was produced by Hassan cigarettes, a very popular brand at the beginning of the 1900's. These were produced around 1910, and came free with the cigarettes. The buttons are lithographed images with a celluloid cover. Most have the paper insert from the particular brands of cigarette inside the pin's back. These buttons feature the art of the popular newspapers cartoonists at the dawning of the America's comics page. The button's artist's are the icons who's innovations lead the way to the comics we know today. This lot features the artwork of George Herriman. George Joseph Herriman (August 22, 1880 – April 25, 1944) was an American cartoonist best known for the comic strip Krazy Kat (1913–1944). More influential than popular, Krazy Kat had an appreciative audience among those in the arts. His strip “The Dingbat Family” for the New York Evening Journal began on 20th June 1910, a strip he then retitled the same year, for just over a year, as “The Family Upstairs” – making it perhaps the first US comic strip in which the title characters never appeared. The strip initially starred E. Pluribus Dingbat and his family, at odds with other neighbours, and in the strip published on 26th July 1910, a mouse threw a brick at the family cat – called “Kat” – which hit the cat on the head. Little did readers of “The Family Upstairs know that they were witnessing the start of the love triangle that was later the focus of “Krazy Kat“, between Krazy, Ignatz, and Offisa Pupp. I will carefully package this pinback so that it arrives in the condition shown. Any questions? Need more photos? Feel free to contact me through eBay. Thanks for looking and please check out my store! Keeth.

Price: 25 USD

Location: Athens, Georgia

End Time: 2024-09-30T09:31:44.000Z

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