Oh Skin Nay !

----- This book by cartoonist Briggs Care and in collaboration with poet Wilbur D. Nesbit. First published in 1913 by P. F. Volland and Company of Chicago Oh Skin-Nay! depicts a year in the life of a small American town through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy: wood gathering sleigh rides post office games swimming and sand ball games.---- It's a very real and funny snapshot of late 19th-century American working-class life with its swimming pools boardwalks vacant lots ice cream carts Sunday school picnics and Saturday night baths. It is indeed a masterful work in its own right a richly comic portrait of Midwestern America in the days of childhood.----ABOUT THE AUTHORAs a young man Briggs left his rural home to embark on a career as an illustrator and cartoonist. He enjoyed success in big-city newspapers such as the Chicago Examiner the Chicago Tribune and the New York Tribune. In the space of a few years Briggs moved away from the brutal humor of early comics and drew discreet strips in two modes: nostalgic musings centered on memories of small-town childhood and satirical strips about the quarrels inherent in married life.