{"id":818,"date":"2013-04-21T21:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T04:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/?p=818"},"modified":"2023-12-10T18:43:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T01:43:16","slug":"the-incompleat-scrappy-sayings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/21\/the-incompleat-scrappy-sayings\/","title":{"rendered":"The Incompleat Scrappy Sayings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Among Scrappy’s many notable achievements: he starred in not one but two unsuccessful newspaper comics. I’ll write about one of them — the one with the Will Eisner connection<\/a> — another time. This post is about Scrappy Sayings<\/em>, which ran in papers as early as 1935<\/a>. Years ago, comics scholar D.D. Degg alerted me to its availability in an online archive<\/a> of a paper called the Grosse Pointe (Mich.) Review<\/em>. The paper ran it erratically — sometimes every week, sometimes two panels in one week, often not at all — in 1936 and 1937.<\/p>\n

Scrappy Sayings<\/em> is weird — it involves Scrappy, so it would be weird if it wasn’t<\/em> weird. How to describe it? It’s a little like Love Is<\/em>, if Love Is<\/em> starred a fully-dressed Scrappy and Margy, used terrible jokes which made no sense in a feature about small children, and took place during the depression. And was drawn by someone who didn’t know how to draw Scrappy. (Anytime he looks like himself, he’s almost certainly a swipe.)<\/p>\n

The panel was syndicated by something called the Columbia Feature Service, which was apparently an arm of Columbia Pictures, since all its features involved the studio’s films. I assume that nobody ever looked at Scrappy Sayings<\/em> as anything other than promotion for Scrappy cartoons. (It sure wasn’t Floyd Gottfredson’s Mickey Mouse<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

Here are all the examples I could find — including one fragment — in the order the Grosse Pointe Review<\/em> ran them, although they don’t seem to have published them in chronological order, nor to have run all of them. But even this poorly-reproduced smattering is probably the most Scrappy Sayings<\/em> ever published in one place at one time.<\/p>\n

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Among Scrappy’s many notable achievements: he starred in not one but two unsuccessful newspaper comics. I’ll write about one of them — the one with the Will Eisner connection — another time. This post is about Scrappy Sayings, which ran in papers as early as 1935. Years ago, comics scholar D.D. Degg alerted me to … Continue reading The Incompleat Scrappy Sayings<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curios"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2D9Zl-dc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3481,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/3481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}