Last modified: 2011-11-19 by antónio martins
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The Kin-der-Kids were an early U.S. newspaper comics series by
German-American painter Lyonel Feininger and published by the Chicago Sunday
Tribune in 1906-1907. Most comics occupied a full-page and were rendered in
color.
António Martins, 25 Nov 2010
image by António Martins, 25 Nov 2010
On the first plate of Kin-der Kids Abroad (the first installment of
the series, 1906.05.06, Chicago Tribune (see fac-simile
images
online)
a harbour scene is depicted: The larger element of the background is the
passenger steamship City of Podunk; at its prow on a short staff, a blue
flag with a white six pointed star standing on a tip. Is it supposed to be a
houseflag or a national flag? Fictional or other?
António Martins, 25 Nov 2010
Probably a house flag, as the ship also flies the Stars
& Stripes from the stern. But the City of Podunk doesn’t
play a role in the comic, as far as I know. However, a better view of the plate
is at the
web site of The Museum of Modern Art, New York: It’s zoomable quite
a bit, revealing the star to be a normal six-pointed star, rather than a lean
one. It also gives the suggestion that the lighter blue colour of the flag is
merely caused by the white of the paper, and isn’t necessarily lighter
than the Stars & Stripes flags on top of the buildings, in the drawing
slightly higher and to the left. (Note the Stars & No Stripes, by the
way.) (I guess the only City of Podunk would be Rogers City; all others Podunks
seem of less inhabited status.)
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 28 Nov 2010
It’s very close to the [7-pointed] houseflags of
A.P. Møller (Maersk Line) or
Holm & Molzen.
Dominique Cureau, 01 Dec 2010
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