National Laundry Day, April 15

National Day Calendar

 

Mike Lipman, artist

Philadelphia Inquirer, September 1, 1901

 

Panel 1 caption: I won’t do a ting to dis Chink

Panel 2 caption: I’ll just tie his pigtail—

Panel 3 caption: Hi! yi! Chinaman eatee live ratee—

Panel 4 caption: ! ! ? ? ! !

Word balloon: “Who’d a thought he had a wig“

 

Mooney Miggles and the Magic Cap by Dink Shannon

Los Angeles Herald, May 3, 1908

 

 

Living in Lonesomehurst by Ed Mack

El Paso Herald, August 26, 1916

 

 

Somebody’s Stenog by A.E. Hayward
Oakland Tribune, February 17, 1924

 

The New Yorker, June 27, 1931

Cover by Rea Irvin

 

 

The Little King by Otto Soglow
Los Angeles Examiner, February 23, 1936

 

 

Captain Freedom

Speed Comics, #40, November 1945

 

American Cyanamid Company
Newsweek, October 14, 1946

 

Rector the Hectic Detective
Wanted Comics #9, September-October 1947

 

Hoover Wash Machine
Good Housekeeping, October 1965

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