Helen Stilwell’s Laughable Looloos

Helen Stilwell, artist and writer was a frequent contributor to the early Sunday comics supplements and was married from 1906 to 1937 to cartoonist Gene Carr.

Some of the instalments, those entitled “Looloos That We All Know” (15, 16 and 19) are clearly satiric, but I suspect many of the others are, too; as Baker and Brentano suggest, the Boogie (no. 6) not only refers to Peary in the poem, but takes the picture from an illustration in the World’s Sunday Magazine of 15 October 1899 devoted to “Peary’s Own Story from the Frozen North.”