Zimmie's Summer Book- 1908

This is a reproduction of Arch Bristow’s 1908 Zimmie’s Summer Book, created with the encouragement of his employer, the Johnstown Tribune, to keep subscribers engaged with one aspect of the newspaper while on their summer vacation. Arch began work as a cartoonist for the Tribune about 1905, and by 1908 he was self-syndicating Zimmie. In 1912, Zimmie was contracted for syndication by the Adams Syndicate. It was popular for newspapers to place a Zimmie cartoon by the weather report on the front page. Zimmie was produced in both single and multi-panel formats. Zimmie was Arch Bristow’s first nationally recognized work and ran in newspapers for over ten years. The success of this book and its lessons learned would help Arch when he began the self-published Hay Rake Magazine in 1921.