Handwriting and artistic feats.
Cartoonists
A long sign board is shown upon which are seven blank sheets of the same size.
Cartoonist.HIs closing effort is a reproduction of The Rock of Ages on a green background, and shaded by a light.
The couple is dressed and in make-up as Indians as they draw on separate easels. Their final images include the Rock of Ages and a Madonna head.
Japanese handwriting art
“Chase’s has captured for this week R.F. Outcault, the famous cartoonist, creator of those funny comic newspaper supplement characters, “The Yellow Kid,” “Buster Brown, &c. Mr. Outcault was the originator of this imaginative form of amusing caricature and there has been an abundant crop of imitators and imitations.””
“The newcomer, Herr J. Rubens, the lightning painter, is the novelty. Herr Rubens contends that he is a Munich academician, and he certainly handles a brush as if he knew his business. On a large canvas, in a frame, he begins with large smears of color, laid on as if he were whitewashing. Then swiftly, and withal with much art, he converts his canvas into winter landscape. Immediately following, [he] […] depicts a summer scene, with the same skill and speed.”