Copyright cartoon images from Library of Congress (UPDATED)

Comics historian Warren Bernard has been volunteering at the Library of Congress for years to help them catalog their editorial collections. Now he's identifying artists in the Copyright collection. Through the official exchange program at the Library of Congress, available to any qualifying institution, duplicate material not retained by the Library has been delivered to Columbia University's Butler Library and the Norman Rockwell Museum. Here's some images of some of the early 20th century cartoon material.

Sara Duke states that researchers can always make appointments in the Prints & Photographs Division to see the items the Library retained, as not everything had duplicates. Selections will be digitized when the project is complete. "I can say on behalf of the archivist and myself, we’re thrilled that duplicate material is making its way into other institutions, where researchers who might not have access to travel to Washington will be able to consult it."

Sykes was a major Philadelphia cartoonist and this may have been for a billboard.

Edelweiss Beer hired French for an ad campaign. A lot of these joke tropes survived for a hundred years.

Warren notes John McCutcheon's influence in the art, and the dog device.

A pool hall campaign by cartoonist Chapin:

Bud Fisher, Bob Edgren, and Rube Goldberg testimonials:

Sometimes you just wonder what they were thinking...

My inlaws sent this ad from middle Tennessee to me recently... it was presumably for Batman day...

 

Pennsylvania Turnpike superheroes?

I was on the Pennsylvania Turnpike last weekend, and stopped in the (going west) rest stop outside of Breezewood. There's a nice exhibit on PA Turnpike tchockes which includes this Turnpike Man cup and inaction figure, which I believe has artwork by the late Paul Ryan, a longtime Fantastic Four and Phantom artist. Can anyone confirm that?







Anyone want to sell me a cup? I just bought the inaction figure on ebay, where 8 of them are being sold as cake toppers.

Splash Mob Comic - a local plumbing cartoon ad

This came across the screen yesterday:

CroppMetcalfe, local D.C. home improvement company, recently created the comic, "Splash Mob" to illustrate what can happen if a homeowner ignores the telling signs of a plumbing problem in their home.

I love the idea of cartoon ads. They've got a very long history especially in the Sunday comics section. Some are much better than others of course - the New Yorker in particular is letting cartoons be repurposed as ads within its pages (or else the NY'r cartoonists are creating new cartoons as ads).

I wrote back to CroppMetcalfe's representative with a few questions, and here's her answers:

CroppMetcalfe, a local D.C. home services company, came up with idea to create a comic strip. Luckyanson Prak, an illustrator and animator located in Buffalo, NY, worked on the comic. We have one more comic strip titled "A Hard Day's Bite" that will be go live in the near future. You will find both comics on CroppMetcalfe's Blog. 

Updated Sept 14 2017 with two more links:

https://www.croppmetcalfe.com/blog/inside_your_home/know_your_pest_the_odorous_house_ant/

https://www.croppmetcalfe.com/blog/inside_your_home/a_hard_days_bite_termite_control_comic/

The other December 6th Doonesbury comic strip

Here's the official Sunday December 6th Doonesbury comic strip.

Only one newspaper ran a different one - the New York Times. This ad ran on page 3 of the Arts section.

Cartoonist ads in World War II's Look Magazine (Updated)

Yesterday we published some articles on cartoonists from World War II-era Look Magazine. Here's some advertising from the same issues. I can't identify the cartoonist for Aunt Jemima (although the style appears to be lifted from Jimmy Hatlo's They'll Do It Every Time strip) or the Briggs tobacco ads which are signed "F". They're not by Clare Briggs because he was already dead.

Updated 11/23/2017: The Aunt Jemima artist was Dudley Fisher, who did a regularly syndicated single-panel cartoon, “Right Around Home,” featuring multi-generational family members and neighbors in multiple brief conversational exchange against a usually large outdoor (say, neighborhood) setting. Speakers were usually paired; even a dog and cat, or two birds might be interlocutors. —Arthur Vergara

Not Jimmy Hatlo? 12/15/1942

Not Jimmy Hatlo? 4/6/1943

Paul Webb, drawing hillbillies, 4/6/1943

Keith Ward, 2/23/1943. Was Ward only an advertising cartoonist?

R. Taylor, 2/23/1943

Otto Soglow, 2/23/1943

Rube Goldberg, 4/6/1943

Rube Goldberg, 2/23/1943

Richard Decker, 2/23/1943

Richard Decker, 12/15/1942

Briggs tobacco, but not by Clare Briggs, 4/6/1943

Briggs tobacco, but not by Clare Briggs, 2/23/1943

Review of William Steig's book, 2/23/1943

Andertoons in today's Post

 

Mark Anderson's Andertoons provided the cartoon illustration for Better Medicare Alliance's advertisement on page A7 of the Washington Post today.

Montgomery County launches comic book ad safety campaign

Comic book style graphic to tell pedestrian safety storyline

County Executive launched English and Spanish pedestrian safety campaign

by Aline Barros Staff writer
December 20, 2013
http://www.gazette.net/article/20131220/NEWS/131229804/1124/comic-book-style-graphic-to-tell-pedestrian-safety-storyline&template=gazette

Montgomery County Department of Transportation

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Bus stop ads continued - The Wolverine

Matt caught one of The Wolverine movie ad posters in a Fairfax bus stop a few days ago. Here's some more.

Superman posters in Crystal City

Tom Spurgeon caught an article in Mother Jones about the use of the Man of Steel Superman movie in National Guard recruitment ads. I should have done something earlier, because I saw one of these posters in Crystal City over a week ago.



Honestly, the themes don't seem to match up.