Comic Books Restore / Powers
Discover a classic old comic strip published in 1912 with drawings by the famous illustrator Thomas E. Powers. Joys and Glooms, a classic with a filiform drawing line that has never been equalled.T. E. Powers was an early American newspaper comic artist, and the first known American to draw a newspaper color comic strip. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he moved to Kansas City, where he was educated in public schools and got his start working for a lithographer. Powers later worked for the Chicago Herald and in 1894 was offered a job in New York with the Evening World. By 1896 he and his colleague Arthur Brisbane found employment with the New York Evening World of tycoon
