Bill Peckmann &Comic Art &Illustration 29 Sep 2011 07:24 am
Kin-Der-Kids 2
- The Whitney Museum is currently hosting a show of artwork by Lionel Feininger. To have some connection with the show, I thought it’d be a good time to post some more of the Kin-Der-Kids comic strip that he’d done in 1906. Bill Peckmann had sent more pages. I hope you enjoy this artist’s work; it was a daring comic strip for the time.
You can see my past posts on Feininger’s comic strip work at: Kin-Der-Kids, Wee Willie Winkie
The Dover book cover
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on 29 Sep 2011 at 2:25 pm 1.The Gee said …
One of that things that always pleases me is being reminded of how much the Fantastic/Fantastical Stuff was dabbled with back in early comic strips.
I guess it also showed up around that time and slightly before in literature with Lewis Carroll’s books and those of other novelists. And, I guess there is that Trip to the Moon film and other silent movies, too.
But, to see hand drawn Fantastical stuff from back then in four-colors or like McCay’s “Rarebit Fiends†short is …yowza!
Thanks for sharing these.
on 29 Sep 2011 at 9:50 pm 2.Joel Brinkerhoff said …
“Le Tableau†by Jean François Laguionie is as close to what I imagine a film by Lionel Feininger might look like although the subject matter is more grounded and easily assessable. The comic strip “The Kin-der-kids†raises a lot of questions for me like who is Mysterious Pete? And what about that wind-up toy Japansky? What the heck is it? All and all I love Feininger for his design and the mystery his strip has conjured up.