I tried and cannot find info on the source of this comic. Reverse image search turns up nothing, and I didn’t have any luck with the exact text at the bottom either.
If I’m reading the signature right, it looks like the cartoonist is G.B. Inwood. It’s likely early 1900s based on the style.
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Couldn’t find a match either using three services, but I believe you’re correct about everything. I’m seeing dates of… I believe 1917-1927 for various of his work, which isn’t hard to find. Couple examples:
G. B. Inwood. Page 2 of Volume 92 of The Judge, a publication from the University of Iowa, from March 1927.
Nice work!
And how did you find it…?
Started by verifying I’d understood the artist’s signature correctly, and used that to get an idea of when he was publishing and what publications were common, from a bunch of web results.
Then searched Google Books for a partial phrase. The most likely result wasn’t viewable, but it gave me a specific publication to look at.
Searched for that same issue on the general web, found a different issue of the same magazine on archive.org. Didn’t find the cartoon in it, but was lucky enough that it was part of a collection that has been OCR’d.
Searched the collection for the phrase fragment, found an exact match (despite “beginner” being misinterpreted by the OCR, so I got lucky with my chosen fragment), flicked through, and found it on the fourth page (again quite lucky that it was near the start).
Started by verifying I’d understood the artist’s signature correctly, and used that to get an idea of when he was publishing and what publications were common, from a bunch of web results.
That’s what I did too in the comment you replied to.
Then searched Google Books for a partial phrase. The most likely result wasn’t viewable, but it gave me a specific publication to look at.
Aha! that’s the part I whiffed on. Good to know.
And… just like when an amazing magic trick is revealed, I’m afraid I no longer believe in your magician-hood. At least for this one trick. But thank you for explaining in detail(!)
Oh fuck, there it is!
