Inspiration: C. Cyl -> Jacobsson

In my contribution to the upcoming conference volume Contemporay Nordic Comics I analyse the inspiration that a Flemish comics artist, Marc Sleen, got from Adamson by Jacobsson. I guessed that Jacobsson himself had also been inspired by other artists. In an earlier blog I already wrote about the similarities with a gag by E. Sorel.  

Here is another example "Pêche à la ligne" by C. Cyl from "Album Noël" of 1900 (the example is from Andy's Early Comics Archive). We see a fisherman who wrongly fears that he has found a dead body in the water. 

 With Jacobsson (Söndags-Nisse 16 Dec 1923) there is no fisherman, but his character Adamson tries to save someone from the water, but he also has to realize that it is only a fashion doll. In both cases, only a piece of the fake "body" is visible, but the artificial piece is submerged at first, only to be revealed in the very last panel. So the basic idea is the same, only a different gag is constructed around it.