Comments on: Caro-Graphics: Do You Know Your State? http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2011/12/27/caro-graphics-do-you-know-your-state/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=caro-graphics-do-you-know-your-state Exploring the History, Literature, and Culture of the Tar Heel State Sat, 18 May 2013 12:37:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Lew Powell http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2011/12/27/caro-graphics-do-you-know-your-state/comment-page-1/#comment-660370 Lew Powell Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:09:38 +0000 http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/?p=16402#comment-660370 Big hat tip to comic strip historian Allan Holtz for making Caro-Graphics his “Obscurity of the Day”:

http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/

]]> By: Nicholas Graham http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2011/12/27/caro-graphics-do-you-know-your-state/comment-page-1/#comment-660311 Nicholas Graham Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:02:02 +0000 http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/?p=16402#comment-660311 Interesting! These do recall the early Ripley’s cartoons. I’ll post more of these every now and then.

]]> By: Lew Powell http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2011/12/27/caro-graphics-do-you-know-your-state/comment-page-1/#comment-656019 Lew Powell Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:47:55 +0000 http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/?p=16402#comment-656019 There were even more sports-page cartoonists of this type than I had recalled

http://www.freewebs.com/vintagebaseballautographs/thecartoonists.htm

including this one who appeared in the News & Observer

http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/agcomm/magazine/fall02/ballard.htm

]]> By: Lew Powell http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2011/12/27/caro-graphics-do-you-know-your-state/comment-page-1/#comment-654881 Lew Powell Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:53:00 +0000 http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/?p=16402#comment-654881 Fun indeed, Nicholas. I’d enjoy seeing more examples… Caro-Graphics seems to be a regional knockoff of the syndicated “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” cartoon that appeared for decades in U.S. newspapers…. I also remember such features on the sports pages….
I don’t know Murray Jones Jr., but in “Durham County,” Jean Bradley Anderson lists him among “a group of men who became professional artists” in the 1930s. And an ad in Arts magazine (1940) mentions him as an instructor at the Summer School of Painting, Saugatuck, Mich.

]]>