Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum

Dream of the Rarebit Fiend. "Now, you tell me where my pitchfork is!"

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Description
  • Date taken from Judith O'Sullivan's 'The Art of Winsor Z. McCay.'
  • Ten panel monochrome comic strip.
  • Signed: "Silas"
  • Copyright, 1905, by the New York Evening Telegram (New York Herald Co.).
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Identifier
  • Digital ID: d_6703
  • Finding Number: CGA.AC.H2.018
Summary
  • A man is being held prisoner. His captor keeps asking him what he has done with his pitch fork. The man tells his captor he doesn't have it. His captor continues to torture him but the man denies having it. His captor drives stakes through his face and the man wakes up. He asks the barber if he has ever eaten rarebit.
Source Collection
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  • New York Evening Telegram
Collection identifier
  • SPEC.CGA.WG
Repository
  • Ohio State University. Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
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Date copyrighted
  • 1905
Date
  • September 10, 1905
Rights note
  • This item, made available for research and educational purposes, may be protected by copyright; the user is responsible for making a final determination of copyright status.
Version
  • original art
Medium
  • blue pencil
  • illustration board
  • white ink
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Extent
  • 46 x 35 cm
Credit line: Woody Gelman Collection, The Ohio State University, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum

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