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"Traitor!" - Tubby (original comic strip) by Charles "Doc" Winner
"Traitor!" - Tubby (original comic strip)
Charles "Doc" Winner
Title
"Traitor!" - Tubby (original comic strip)
Artist
Year
c. 1923 -26
Technique
ink drawing (paste-up for publishing)
Image Size
19 x 5" image size
Signature
ink signed in final panel, lower right
Edition Size
1 of 1 unique
Annotations
inked text throughout
Reference
Paper
antique-white wove
State
published
Publisher
United Feature Syndicate
Inventory ID
SARY102
Price
$450.00
Description
Tubby was the name of a "gag-a'day" comic about a boy named Chester whose friends called him "Tubby." It ran from March 1923 to July 1926 before being reimagined as "Elmer," a replacement for A.C. Fera's "Just Boy" when Winner took over that strip in 1926. This would prove to be Winner's longest running gag-a-day strip, published through 1956.
Doc Winner was the second artist to pen the Popeye comic strip and was likely one of the ghost writers for Buster Brown. He was also one of the longest-running artists to pen the Katzenjammer Kids comic.