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Clare Briggs
Clare Briggs is a famous cartoonist who lived from 1875 to 1930. Poems by Wilbur Nesbitt.
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The difference between his stuff from the oughts and his stuff from the 20’s is *HUGE*.
It’s fun seeing him evolve and devolve and guess at the year of any given cartoon before rushing down to the bottom right.Report
I do think some of it is an artifact of the quality of the archive and how much fidelity went into intial microfiche and then onward to digitizing.Report
It’s a combination of both. His Chicago art in general was much more basic. But the scan source is definitely poor.Report