Twist Street

H.M. Bateman’s One-Note Man, which later inspired a key element in the finale of Alfred Hitchcock’s Man Who Knew Too Much (i.e., the guy with the cymbals), as Hitchcock explains in this video of him narrating the comic. Bateman is currently the subject of a major retrospective at some kind of Cartoon Museum in London, apparently, as his work was revolutionary for the time: “These were strips without words, wonderful cinematic sequences that relied only upon the story that the drawings told and did away with any explanatory text.”  Also: according to the internet, if I read this website correctly, Alfred Hitchcock’s face was very nearly same height in centimeters as The Peanuts’s Charles Schulz’s face, so… thank you for tracking that information, internet.