Newsboy Strike Of 1899 - Blog Posts

When I was 9 I heard the song “the world will know” from Newsies for the first time without any context. Mind you my English was HORRENDOUSLY bad back then so I thought they said “dragons” instead of “wagons”. LONG STORY SHORT: I THOUGHT THE NEWSIES WERE DRAGON HUNTERS FOR LIKE 3 YEARS 😭

I also thought newsies was about dragons when I first watched it…

Found this doodle I made for a friend some time ago and felt the need to share it

If life keeps fucking me over like this my most listened artist on the 2025 Spotify wrapped will be the 1992 newsies ensemble

Just found a blush doodle I made a few weeks ago in school

This took way too long and I don’t even like it, kill me please

It may be a bit cringy but it’s currently 2 am and I’m too tired to care

Is there any context? No! Just make one up haha

I totally just made this because I’m a sucker for Jack being head over heels for Davey the second he sees him

@nitttstdsdtoastd asked for Javid and I will deliver 🫡

(I totally made this for myself)

Sarah is another person we can add to the “is annoyed by Jack’s tendencies” pile

Yesterday I visited my dad at work (he works at a newspaper company) and no one got my newsies references ):

The requested historical accurate newsies fan art for class! I barely found out anything about how they looked so this could be the biggest lie

Guess who just made historical accurate Newsies fanart for history class!?

Fly high Essay

“We're doing something no one's even tried”

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I deleted my Essay last Wednesday by accident 😭 (I still mourn it) but if you‘re interested, I could write annother one! (the previous one was partically in german anyway)

“We're doing something no one's even tried”

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I definitely agree that movie, Broadway and novel have a lot of historical inaccuracy, but they represent the Main Events of the Strike and it’s process pretty good (except the importance of Hearst in the Strike???)

The movie had a lot of characters that actually existed back then and I’m pretty sad that Most of them didn‘t make it to Broadway. ):

Obviously the modern Adaptations have flaws, for example the Price „suddenly“ rising, Spot being the King of Brooklyn instead of Race, the Strike starting in Manhattan or Katherine being alive during this strike, but the Happenings which were important in the Strike, like the Rally at Irving Hall or their leader being a scab (Kid Blink and David Simmons alledgy turned scab) were shown in them!

Jack Kelly didn‘t exist, but I’m pretty sure he‘s based on a bunch of people that actually existed. His role in the Strike and personality were both based on Kid Blink and Annie Kelly (hence the last name Kelly). His Story resembles a lot of things that happend in Kid Blink‘s Life aswell, for example turning scab (it’s not clear if Blink actually did it but Most newsies believed it) or going to prison (in Jack‘s case Refuge) other than Jack, Blink had a mom that bailed him out tho. The last Name Sullivan COULD be a reference to Timothy D. Sullivan (the Businessman that rented the Irving hall for the newsies) and the name „Jack“ COULD be inspired by the newsie „Jack the rare“ but the last two are just assumptions

(I forced my english teacher to let me write an Essay about this, because none of my friends wanted to hear it and it shows)

“We're doing something no one's even tried”

LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER

“We're doing something no one's even tried”

LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER