Bonnet-Brown Comic Art Syndicate Collection.

Bonnet-Brown Art Syndicate of Chicago.

0.417 linear feet.

Scope and Content Note

Published strips, cartoons, and features by various comic strip artists of the 1930s, including Burne Hogarth, V.T. Hamlin, Leon A. Beroth, Ken Reynolds and Art Helfant. The collection contains photocopies taken from The Waynesboro News-Virginian newspaper, Waynesboro, Virginia, 1932-1933, from the Bonnet-Brown Comic Art Syndicate, on microfilm. The comics featured are “It’s Possible,” “Ivy Hemmanhaw Says,” “Bellboy 13,” “Alley Oop,” “The Adventures of Tom, Dick and Harry,” “Smokie,” “Luke Barker Says,” Editorial Cartoon, “Odd-But-True Inventions,” “Chucky,” as well as a few other features.

Also included is an obituary on artist Burne Hogarth, as published in The Comics Journal Newswatch, #184, February 1996.

Biographical/Descriptive Note

The Bonnet-Brown Comic Art Syndicate of Chicago is believed to have published eleven strips, cartoons, and other features from December 5, 1932, through April 24, 1933. The company subsequently folded.

Finding aid: Bonnet-Brown Comic Art Syndicate Collection

Note: Partial contents: Series one (Box #1).

MU Catalog Record: Bonnet-Brown Comic Art Syndicate Collection.

Call number: MANUSCRIPTS Shelfmark A06.

Bonnet-Brown Corporation -- Archives

Beroth, L. A. 1895-1980 -- Archives
Hamlin, V. T. 1900-1993 -- Archives
Helfant, Art, 1898-1971 -- Archives
Hogarth, Burne -- Archives
Reynolds, Ken (Cartoonist) -- Archives

Donor and date of accession unknown. Location of original material unknown.

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Mixed materials.

1932-1933.