Merry Christmas from ComicsDC and Mike Rhode

John Held Jr. from the New Yorker, December 26, 2025, courtesy of Michael Maslin's Inkspill

 

John Held, Jr. artwork on card game

I picked up this card game, Pit, in New Jersey last weekend. John Held Jr. did the artwork. It's copyrighted 1919, which I think may be for the game, not the artwork, but I also think the game may still be sold.

Add a footnote to the Secret History of Comics...

Echos of comics past

Another ad from the bottom of the Examiner brings to mind... Anyone? You in the back?

How about John Held, Jr's cartoons?

John Held Jr. postcard

I ran across this postcard left where it was piled waiting to be filed. So just for fun, here's John Held Jr's late style on an advertising card.