Hi y’all,

Just wanted to sticky this to let y’all know that this community exists and I am the moderator (also of !madmax@midwest.social). I don’t want to be the only one posting so I hope y’all post your favourite True strips in here as well. Also some simple rules:

  1. This place is only for the posting of Everett True comics by Condo,
  2. Please try posting the most high quality image of a comic excerpt,
  3. If you can, post the publication date of the comic strip, otherwise type either nothing or (date unknown).

Okay Everett lovers let’s get this twentieth century party started

  • Rolando@lemmy.world
    1·
    9 days ago

    Where to see more comics:

    • library of congress (older interface)
    • library of congress (newer interface)
    • collection - july 15 1905 to sept 14 1909, 494 comics
    • collection, 1907, 94 pages
    • some scans by a blogger (scroll down)
    • twitter feed (through xcancel)
    • bluesky feed - I think this is the same person doing the twiter feed
    • apparently The Wisconsin Historical Archives has “4 oversize folders” of “Pen and ink drawings, 1948-1949, 1953-1954, by cartoonist A.D. (Armundo Dreisbach) Condo, featuring the character Everett True.” (but… I imagine you have to actually go to Wisconsin and convince them to let you see them…) It’s possible this came from August Derleth, who tracked down Condo in his retirement, according to The Capital Times of Madison, Wisconsin on Nov 28, 1948 Page 4 - see image below. A Capital Times article on Wed, Jan 17, 1951 Page 12 says that Derleth planned to publish a collection of old and new comics.

    • you might be able to see a couple of the newer ones on the ComicsAuctionSite
    • according to a blogspot post, ““Everett True” continued as a pale version of its former self well into the sixties under the title “Uncle Ev,” featuring Everett True.”
    • apparently Tony Isabella and Gary Dunn made several additional strips for The Comics Buyer’s Guide, Movie Collector’s World, Amazing Heroes, and The Comics Journal; Isabella plans to collect them and publish them eventually (source, source, source).