{"id":634,"date":"2009-12-13T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2009\/12\/irving-tripp-r-i-p\/"},"modified":"2009-12-13T10:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T15:56:00","slug":"irving-tripp-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=634","title":{"rendered":"Irving Tripp R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/srbissette.com\/?p=7401\">Steve Bissette<\/a>, Tom Spurgeon broke the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreporter.com\/index.php\/irving_tripp_1921_2009\/\">news<\/a> of Little Lulu artist Irving Tripp&#8217;s passing. This was all the more shocking for many of us selfish historian-types because, as Tom <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreporter.com\/index.php\/cr_week_in_review121209\/\">noted<\/a>, we weren&#8217;t aware he was still around all these years. So, Jeet had the idea to reprint the one interview known to exist with Tripp, from Another Rainbow&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/michelesworld.net\/dmm2\/lulu\/library.htm\">Little Lulu Vol. 16 (1985)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, now CC pal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drawnandquarterly.com\/artStudio.php?artist=a3dff7dd55a576\">Seth<\/a> has graciously supplied these scans of that fascinating interview, posted here with permission. Click to enlarge each scan to reading size. Thanks to all, and thanks to Irving Tripp, a master cartoonist.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_xU6Ss3tvbus\/SyURDtbGTVI\/AAAAAAAAAlk\/sunhcvy1RBA\/s1600-h\/Tripp1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 227px; height: 320px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_xU6Ss3tvbus\/SyURDtbGTVI\/AAAAAAAAAlk\/sunhcvy1RBA\/s320\/Tripp1.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414752882413423954\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_xU6Ss3tvbus\/SyURD7aLYqI\/AAAAAAAAAls\/rfng-Y7uISw\/s1600-h\/Tripp2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 224px; height: 320px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_xU6Ss3tvbus\/SyURD7aLYqI\/AAAAAAAAAls\/rfng-Y7uISw\/s320\/Tripp2.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414752886167659170\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_xU6Ss3tvbus\/SyUREUOko_I\/AAAAAAAAAl0\/5D3LLMiQYbw\/s1600-h\/Tripp3.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 233px; height: 320px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_xU6Ss3tvbus\/SyUREUOko_I\/AAAAAAAAAl0\/5D3LLMiQYbw\/s320\/Tripp3.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414752892829869042\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_xU6Ss3tvbus\/SyURE2qu8TI\/AAAAAAAAAl8\/6dkyd5nEngs\/s1600-h\/Tripp4.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 233px; height: 320px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_xU6Ss3tvbus\/SyURE2qu8TI\/AAAAAAAAAl8\/6dkyd5nEngs\/s320\/Tripp4.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414752902074790194\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_xU6Ss3tvbus\/SyURFPruqjI\/AAAAAAAAAmE\/bJ2pNvCSLUg\/s1600-h\/Tripp5.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 233px; height: 320px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_xU6Ss3tvbus\/SyURFPruqjI\/AAAAAAAAAmE\/bJ2pNvCSLUg\/s320\/Tripp5.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414752908789852722\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_xU6Ss3tvbus\/SyURjwaAQCI\/AAAAAAAAAmM\/hd2tWJo6Luc\/s1600-h\/Tripp6.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 233px; height: 320px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_xU6Ss3tvbus\/SyURjwaAQCI\/AAAAAAAAAmM\/hd2tWJo6Luc\/s320\/Tripp6.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414753432969953314\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Steve Bissette, Tom Spurgeon broke the news of Little Lulu artist Irving Tripp&#8217;s passing. This was all the more shocking for many of us selfish historian-types because, as Tom noted, we weren&#8217;t aware he was still around all these years. So, Jeet had the idea to reprint the one interview known to exist with Tripp, from Another Rainbow&#8217;s Little Lulu Vol. 16 (1985). Anyhow, now CC pal Seth has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[595,806,1189,1314],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-tripp","tag-little-lulu","tag-seth","tag-spurgeon"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}