On 1/27/07 10:15 AM, Barron wrote:
I've never heard of a gibson Joy, what is it?
It's a simple bun, but on top of the head. Groo the Wanderer wears one -- I hope I look better in it than he does. It was all the rage when Charles Dana Gibson was drawing his Gibson Girls, but the do dates back to the neolithic, and is probably as old as the comb. I've no idea what the Gibson Girls would have called it. Probably "a bun on top of the head."
Ma Katzenjammer's hairdo in The Captain and the Kids is a parody of the Gibson; it does tend to come to a point if you don't unwind it half a turn just before sticking in the pins. I read the original _Max und Moritz_ on which the Katzenjammer Kids were based, but don't recall any depiction of their mother. It must be Public Domain by now -- google google -- Witwe Bolte, kerchief with bow on top; Frau Boek: three-pointed hairdo somewhat suggestive of Ma Katzenjammer's from certain angles; distinct shortage of adult females in this book. Also it's nastier than I remember -- though I can no longer read the text, and so don't get the jokes. I do recall thinking that it was somewhat gratuitous to draw mammalian assholes on Meister Muellers federvieh, as if the artist had never seen a duck from the back.
On a nicer note, Carl Bark's Grandma Duck also wears a gibson; it's her picture I have in mind whenever I'm trying to pouf my hair evenly. (Bark's work usually credited to Walt Disney. Walt did Donald, but Carl did Grandma and Unca Scrooge.)
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