![]() ![]() Verbeek managed to create six such pictures which told a coherent and funny little story when sequenced. ![]() The central trick was to make Lovekins and Muffaroo upside down versions of each other, but it is impossible to overstate the difficulty involved in Verbeek’s method.Īrtists agree that it is tricky enough to make a single picture that, when flipped, represents another completely different scene. The reader could view the first half of the story by following the panels in the normal manner, then turn the page upside down for the second half. ![]() Every episode of The Upside Downs of Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo consisted of six pictures, each of which also depicted a scene when turned upside down. ![]() Educated in Japan and Paris, he found fame in the US with a series of comic strips which ran between 19 for the New York Herald (he also found a new name – after an immigration officer misspelt ‘Verbeck’ as ‘Verbeek’ he decided it was easier to just use the new version).īut these were not ordinary comic strips. This Gustave Verbeck was born in 1867 in Nagasaki, the child of Dutch-American parents. I have in my possession a little book, subtly entitled: FOUR CONFUSING TALES each illustrated by six UP-TURNABLE PICTURES from the incredible TOPSY-TURVY world of GUSTAVE VERBEEK. ![]()
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