Andy's Early Comics Archive


An A-Z listing is at the bottom of this page.

1700 - 1800




1800 - 1840 (pre-Töpffer)







Rodolphe Töpffer (1799-1846)




1840 - 1860 (pre-Busch)










Wilhelm Busch (15. April 1832 - Jan. 1908)







1860 - 1900

1900 - 1929

Unidentified Artists from 'Album Noel' 1900 page 2 - ? 'Un jeune inventeur' (probably Lemot) page 38 - 'Joies d'un bon sujet - Mesaventures d'un mauvais sujet' page 46 - 'Pour rouler toujours' page 52 - 'Histoire d'une bête page 64 - 'A la recherche des champignons' page 68 - 'Chasse d'hiver' page 80 - 'Deception d'un chasseur' (from 'Puck') page 88 - (no comic) Elephants page 90 - 'Ce qu'est la vie' page 92 - 'Les successives stations d'un amateur' page 94 - (Giraffe and Biker) page 96 - 'Un jeu amusant' (bears playing rugby) page 100 - BP sc 'Une singulière aventure' from Harper's Round Table, 1897 280 - - How Tommy made one Skate do 544 - - An African Bridge 760 - - 'The Stolen Cigar or The Monkey who got it in the Neck' Tucker ? 784 - - 'An Interesting Article' S.I.Theriat ? 864 - - 'An Unintentional Exchange' Hilder? 912 - - 'The Adventures of a Cartwheel' Hilder? 960 - - 'A New Wag to an Old Tale' (poor imitator of Frost) 1008 - - 'A Cat Tale' 1176 - - 'The Patent Sure-to-arrouse Alarm Clock' (A.Berk ?) 1200 - - 'The Artist and his Model' Hilder ? - gag pinched from Frost from Picture Magazine, 1893 Tommy goes to sell his pups (originally published in Judge) The Advantage of athletics (originally published in Fliegende Blätter) Meggendorfer? A Story with a Moral (originally published in Life) Some Fishing Expressions The Flying Steed (originally published in Puck) The Portrait of a Cow (originally published in Life) from Fliegende Blätter vol 82 'Das Urteil des Paris' (The Judgement of Paris) - Fliegende Blätter vol.82 p.77 'Erysichthon von Thessalien - oder - So grausam bestraft sich der Baumfrevel' 1885 from Fliegende Blätter vol 46 (1865) 'Der Ofen - Eine Familiengeschichte' (1865) 'Die Kunst und Wissenschaft des Totschlagens, in ihrer Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft' (1865) 'Die Crinoline als Barometer' (1865) 'Das theuere Vermächtniss' (1865) from Fliegende Blätter vol 47 (1865) 'Bedenken eines Hauseigenthühmers' (1865) 'Illustrierte Kriegsberichte' (1865) 'Der spannende Roman' (1865) 'Regnen oder Tröpfeln' (1865) 'Die projectierte Landpartie' (1865) 'Pariser Abenteur des Herrn Schwäbele' (1865) 'Der Raub der Sabinerinnen' (1865) from Fliegende Blätter vol 48 (1866) 'Zwei Engagements' (1866) (1866) 'Wie das Ausweichen oft schwer ist' (1866) 'Das Zuckerfass' (1866) R.G. 'Wochenkalender für moderne Liebe' (1866) not a comic - (Hexe Walpurga) (1866) from Lustige Blätter 1892 Eine Liebesgeschichte Der Kritische Tag 'Wie eine Gans durch allzuviel Rücksicht auf den Hund kommt' (1892) G.W. 'Ein schwungvoller Heimweg' (1892) 'Ein französisches Duell' (1892) 'Missglückter Aufsprung' (1892) 'Gestillter Liebesdurst' (1892) 'Wenn zwei dasselbe tun..' (1892) (1892) 'Das Vogelschiessen' (1892) L., S. 'Die lästigen Gardedamen - oder - Gut Aufgehoben' (F.B. vol 82) K., A. 'In die unrechte Kehle gekommen' (1892) 'Der neue Brutapperat' (1892) 'Triumph des Drills' (1892) (1892) from 'Leuchtkugeln' 1848 3 pages Unidentified Bilderbogen ('Nr.222') 'Jeder ist seines Glückes Schmied' (Everyone makes his own luck) from Ludwigsburger Sonntagsbeilage (4 pages) Advertising Comics 'Blackwell's' - 'A romance for married men' (1870s) 'Hold Fast' American (1870s) Esquire Brown Amercian (1864) 'Tom's Holiday' W Q ? Grip Magazine (Canadian) (1881) 'The Amende Honorable - A Globe Experience in three scenes' Merryman's Monthly (1865) 'The Flying Machine'

A-Z

B., F. von Bahr, Johann Baric Beard, Frank Budd, C.J. Bunner, R.F. Busch, Wilhelm Caldecott, Randolph Caran d'Ache Chicki, Georges Chinese (probably late 18th c.) Chinks Chip   (F.P.W.Bellew) Clark, J.B Crowquill, Alfred Cruikshank, George Cyl, C. Daggy A.S. Dalrymple Deb Doës Doré, Gustave

Doyle, Richard Dunk, R.M. Frost, A.B. Gerlach Gillray, John Godefroy Goez, Joseph Franz von Goodes, W.M. Graetz, F. Grandville, J.J. Griffin, Syd B. Heath, William Herford, O. Hoffmann, Heinrich (Struwwelpeter) Hogarth, William Hopkins, Livingstone Howarth, F.M. Jensen, A. Keene. Charles Kemble, W.C. Kerlie? C. Koch Lagemann, Ch.

Leech, John Lemot, Achille (Uzès) L., S. Leoy Lobrichon, Timoléon Marie Malatesta, H. ? Mandl, M. Maurier, George de May, Chas McCay, Winsor McDougal, Walt Mclenan, John Meggendorfer, Lothar Mob Newell, Peter Oberländer, Adolf Opper, Fred (1890s) Opper, Fred (after 1900) Photo Comics Phillipp, H.W. Pommerhanz, Karl Reinhardt, Carl Reichert

Reinicke, Emil Rey, K. Richards, F.T. Richards, P. Ross, Charles & Marie Duval ('Ally Sloper') Rowlandson, Thomas (Dr Syntax) Rusden, A. Scherenberg, H. Schönborn, R. Schliessmann, H. Schmelzer Schmidthammer, Arpad Shepherd, James A. Storch, C. Sullivan, T.E. Tenniel, John Theele, John Töpffer, Rodolphe Vaiselow, M. Verbeek, Gustav Verbeek, Gustav (after 1900) Vitou, S. Unidentified Artists

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