Billy Bounce 1906 - William W. Denslow (1856-1915) - 16 images

Denslow created Billy Bounce in 1901. A rotund fellow in a cap, knickers and jacket, Billy kind of resembled a member of MunchkinLand. And that's not where the similarities to the Oz tales ended. Many of Billy's adventures shared The Wizard of Oz's surrealist quality. Billy took trips to the Moon and conversed with the Man in it. He hung out with anthropomorphic circus bears and took strolls with zoo animals.

Though the series only ran for a couple of years (Denslow left it in 1902 and was replaced as illustrator by C.W. Kahles), Billy Bounce was popular enough to appear on badges advertising newspapers like the Philadelphia Press and Washington Times. His stories were also collected into a 1906 hardcover book, which had 16 colour plates. Our download includes the 16 full-page images from the book.

This download features 16 hi-res images, in jpeg format, that are all 300dpi and range in size from 1830 pixels wide/tall to 2870 pixels wide/tall.

The pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you’d like, including commercial use.

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